Robert Louis Stevenson
1) Kidnapped
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 480L
Language
English
Description
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 450L
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious-during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde-has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751. How he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called (from title page).
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Xiang and Anh--ages sixteen and seventeen--hunt the South China Sea for the lost treasure of the fabled pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"London, 1885. Gabriel Utterson, a seventeen-year-old law clerk, has returned to London for the first time since his life--and that of his dearest friend, Henry Jekyll--was derailed by a scandal that led to his and Henry's explusion from the London School of Medicine. Whispers about the true nature of Gabriel and Henry's relationship have followed the boys for two years, and now Gabriel has a chance to start again. But Gabriel doesn't want to move...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this prequel to "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" set in 1870s Paris during the Prussian siege, an orphaned sixteen-year-old girl whose knowledge of witchcraft includes transformation spells meets a young medical doctor from London.