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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When the Tin Woodman and his friends set off to find his former fiancee, their many adventures include an encounter with a wicked giantess and a meeting with the tinsmith who first made the renowned tin man.
Author
Series
Damar volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Eleven-year-old Rebecca is leaving Sunnybrook Farm to live with her spinster aunts and become the educated daughter her family needs. Her aunts resent her father, who left behind nothing for his wife and seven children but a forty-eight-dollar mortgage. When Rebecca climbs out of the stagecoach with her pink parasol, wide-eyed and nervous about her new life, she is quickly met with the strict rules of Aunt Miranda, who has...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
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Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
7) Emily climbs
Author
Series
Emily Starr trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Emily Starr, desperate to join her friends at high school in nearby Shrewsbury, agrees to Aunt Elizabeth's requirement that she stay in town with her Aunt Ruth, despite Ruth's refusal to allow Emily to follow her dream of becoming a writer.
8) Lady Susan
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English
Description
Lady Susan is a short, epistolary novel by Jane Austen. Lady Susan Vernon is a selfish, attractive, and unscrupulous woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. As a widow, she seeks a match for herself, as well as husband-hunting for her daughter. Lady Susan is not only beautiful but intelligent and witty; she's highly attractive to men and her suitors are always significantly younger. Inspired...
9) Pollyanna
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
Unwanted and unloved, Pollyanna Whittier comes to her aunt's home without a warm welcome. Pollyanna's irrepressible spirits make punishments seem like treats and her cheerfulness brings happiness to her aunt and other members of the community.
10) What Katy did
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Katie, living with her father, aunt, and five siblings in a small town in the 1870's, constantly makes and breaks resolutions to be a kind and generous person like her invalid Cousin Helen, but when she herself is bedridden after an accident, Katie finds her cousin's example very hard to follow.
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English
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When Angela's father gets lost at the airport, she looks for him everywhere, even inside an airplane. But when Angela's love of button-pressing proves too great, she finds herself in charge of flying the plane. Can Angela make it back down to the runway?
A newly designed Classic Munsch picture book introduces this junior pilot to a new generation of young readers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
When her beloved father dies, thirteen-year-old Emily Starr, orphaned and lonely, is sent to live with her mother's relatives at New Moon Farm, but despite her stern Aunt Elizabeth and malicious classmates, Emily's quick wit and lively imagination help her to form friendships and begin to feel at home.
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English
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An empowerment-focused keepsake edition of one of the world's best-loved picture books.
40 years. 7 million copies. 1 kick-ass princess who has inspired generations of readers to stand up for themselves.
How do you celebrate an occasion as special as 40 years in print for a book as beloved as The Paper Bag Princess? You track down some of the most poignant commentary about the story; you share behind-the-scenes insights from the author and his...
14) Jane
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this contemporary retelling of "Jane Eyre," an orphaned nanny becomes entranced with her magnetic and brooding employer, a rock star with a torturous secret from his past.
15) Emily's quest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love, as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really means....
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English
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Set against a 1950's-era backdrop of James Dean billboards and jukeboxes blasting Elvis, Ellen Conford's classic road adventure follows fifteen-year-old Sylvie as she leaves her foster home in New Jersey chasing dreams of celluloid stardom. Sylvie soon learns, however, that life isn't like the movies as she ends up broke and alone.
17) Rose in bloom
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1360L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Several years after Rose Campbell was adopted by her uncle Alec, she and Phebe return from an extended trip to Europe, now young women ready to make their entrance into society. Though her uncle disapproves of fashionable society, Rose makes a deal with him: she'll have three months to attend parties and explore courting her way before she returns to his serious way of living.
18) Jo's boys
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Jo's boys, and how they turned out: A sequel to "Little Men" is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, Jo's "children", now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. The book mostly follows the lives of Plumfield boys who were introduced in Little Men, particularly Tommy, Emil, Demi, Nat, Dan, and Professor Bhaer and Jo's sons Rob and Teddy,...
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Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"Lucy is a well-mannered Edwardian lady who finds that true love has no interest in playing by her rules. But how can she choose between what she wants and what everyone around her expects her to want? This gentle but sharp comedy has it all: surprise encounters, jealousy and revenge, conventional fools and unconventional sages, confrontation, loss, and eventual triumph."--Back cover.
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