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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 550L
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English
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A casual wager hastens the elegant and exacting Phileas Fogg on a rollicking ride around the world with his entertaining sidekick Passepartout in tow and the dogged Detective Fix hot on their heels. By cab, rail, steamer, and ingenious means improvised en route, they cobble together a global adventure in which they overcome all manner of unanticipated and sometimes uproarious obstacles while still managing to rescue the demure princess Aouda. Full...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Tom, always looking for trouble, finds it when he sets out to become Hannibal's First Traveler. Tom, Huck, and Jim find themselves kidnapped by a mad inventor, sailing cross the Atlantic and into Arabian adventure on a hot-air balloon.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
HL 800L
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English
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This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
5) Kidnapped
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 850L
Language
English
Description
The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literature's most beloved “bad guys,” Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of boys-and girls-and grownups. Its unforgettable characters include: young Jim Hawkins, who finds himself owner of a map to Treasure Island, where the fabled pirate booty is buried; honest Captain Smollett, heroic Dr. Livesey, and the good-hearted but obtuse Squire Trelawney,...
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Alexander Cold trilogy volume 3
Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar
City of the beasts volume 3
Memorias del águila y del jaguar volume 3
Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar
City of the beasts volume 3
Memorias del águila y del jaguar volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"Once again Alexander Cold and his indomitable journalist grandmother, Kate, are braving the mystical unknown, this time in the heart of Africa. Along with Alex's friend Nadia Santos and a photographic crew from International Geographic magazine, they have travelled to Kenya to work on an article about the continent's first elephant-led safaris. But when a missionary approaches their camp in search of companions who have mysteriously disappeared,...
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Collects The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2008) #1-8, The Marvelous Land of Oz (2009) #1-8. The premier American fantasy adventure gets the Merry Marvel treatment! Eric Shanower and Skottie Young's Eisner Award-winning adaptations of L. Frank Baum's Oz books begin with the beloved tale of Kansas farm girl Dorothy, blown by a tornado to the magical Land of Oz. Dorothy fatally flattens a wicked witch, liberates a living scarecrow and is hailed by the munchkins...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
810L
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English
Description
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible...
12) Robinson Crusoe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
Contemporary fiction. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance . . . reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self . . . ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 500L
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English
Description
"In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 980L
Language
English
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A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the...
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