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(0)Eric Knight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When Joe's father went on the dole, Lassie their valuable collie was sold to a duke, who took her to northern Scotland. Joe's devotion, Lassie's escape, and the four hundred mile trek back to the collie's family in Yorkshire make an...adventure story with the atmosphere of pre-war England."
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Language
English
Description
Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz, Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk, but having a crisis of conscience over what the war is being fought for and disgusted at the incompetence of the ruling elite, Clive decides not to return to the Army and to go absent without leave.
Deserving comparison to Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", This Above All was heralded as...
3) The Amazing Adventures of the Flying Yorkshireman: The Amazing Adventures of the Flying Yorkshireman
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Sam Small, a man from Yorkshire who wakes up one morning and decides that he can fly on his own two hands. So he does. This is for all those who know that dogs talk, Sundays can be repeated seven days in a row so that Monday never comes, and other dreamy escapism. You'll have to read to believe how he learned to fly like a bird, by faith, how he changed a dog into a girl and back again, how he coped with the two selves of his...
4) Lassie
Author
Language
English
Description
Lassie is the best known dog in Greenall Bridge and the love of Joe Carraclough.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The prison cracks. What emerges is something no one expected...
Wulf Rome clawed his way up from the gutter to become a general in the Qarathian army. But when he rebels against the king's mad plan for another senseless war, he is exiled to the frontier and sent on a suicide mission into the depths of a merciless desert.
But Wulf Rome is a hard man to kill. Instead of dying, he survives, and in an underground cavern he finds...something.
A vast,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Led by dragons, the Emperor's vast army conquers every nation in its path...
The Emperor seeks to free the Dragon Queen from the Abyss. The only ones who could have opposed him are the Knights of Dragonwatch, an ancient order created to defend the world against the Dragon Queen, and they are no more, betrayed by one of their own and hunted to extinction.
Jarryd is a young man with a secret. He sees demons. The visions have plagued him since he witnessed...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
People who search for the lost Temple of Totec have a way of turning up dead....
Ace Lone Wolf, a half-Apache gunslinger with a quick draw and a penchant for finding trouble, is about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit. Then Victoria, a beautiful English noblewoman, and her hulking manservant, Block, break him out of jail.
Victoria's father, a famed archaeologist from London, disappeared while searching for the lost temple of the bloodthirsty...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Led by dragons, the Emperor's vast army conquers every nation in its path...
The Emperor seeks to free the Dragon Queen from the Abyss. The only ones who could have opposed him are the Knights of Dragonwatch, an ancient order created to defend the world against the Dragon Queen, and they are no more, betrayed by one of their own and hunted to extinction.
Jarryd is a young man with a secret. He sees demons. The visions have
...11) Lassie
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie when they fall on hard times. On her journey of 500 miles, Lassie faces dangers, natural and human, and finds help in unexpected places as she returns to her home and the boy she loves.
12) Lassie come-home
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Sold in financial desperation to a wealthy duke, a collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey in order to be reunited with her former master in Yorkshire.
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET A mild-mannered bookkeeper who longs to serve his country gets his wish - when he turns into a fish - and becomes the U.S. Navy's new secret weapon. Don Knotts plays one of his best-loved roles in this delightful and fondly remembered blend of live-action and animation.
FLIPPER The beloved dolphin first swam into the world's minds and hearts in this warm and winning adventure starring Chuck Connors and Luke Halpin as young...
17) Lassie
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie when they fall on hard times. On her journey of 500 miles, Lassie faces dangers, natural and human, and finds help in unexpected places as she returns to her home and the boy she loves.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An ordinary man has his lifelong dream of turning into a fish come true; a boy befriends a dolphin and they save each other's lives; a young girl is encouraged to train her horse for an important national race; after being sold by her family, Lassie escapes from her new owner and faces a long journey home.
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The head of a private girls school falls in love with a student; a businessman's daughter spars with a newspaper reporter; an aristocratic young woman joins the armed forces and falls in love with a deserter; an executive's wife takes a secretarial job because her husband has been ignoring her; a New York man meets a leprechaun and a woman on a trip to Ireland; an American man in debt to a French nightclub owner is forced to form a relationship with...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Lassie stars as Bill, a pup who becomes separated from his family and is accidentally shot by two boys. Elizabeth Taylor is Kathie Merrick, the sweet young girl who rescues Bill and nurses him back to health. Bill disappears and is drafted into the military, but makes a desperate attempt to return home to Kathie, where he ends up in a courtroom, on trial for his life.
Lassie come home: A collie braves storms, hunger, and peril to return to her young...
