Charlotte Brontë
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English
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A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre “last confessions” of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction's most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...
5) Emma Brown
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Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"Emma Brown, is the story about a young girl, Matilda, brought by her father to a small girl's school in provincial England. The school, Fuchsia Lodge, is foundering, so its headmistress is delighted to welcome a new pupil--especially one so elaborately dressed with an apparently rich father who is 'quite' the gentleman.' But when the school term ends and it comes time to make arrangements for the Christmas holidays, Matilda's tuition goes unpaid,...
6) Jane Eyre
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Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young English woman who accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.