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The Arabian Nights is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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NC 670L
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English
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In this abridged version of the classic tale, while going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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An abridged version of the tale of Scheherazade, daughter of King Shahryar's advisor, who tells her husband, the king, a different story every night to keep him from fulfilling his plan to kill her in the morning.
6) Pinocchio
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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700L
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English
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An abridged retelling of the adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grows whenever he tells a lie. Includes discussion questions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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680L
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An abridged version of the science fiction novel about the scientist who invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802,701 A.D., where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.
8) Little men
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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An abridged version of the Louisa May Alcott novel that follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
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Here come the animals! From Rudyard Kipling's most popular "Just-So Stories" to Jack London's "Brown Wolf," this collection features some of the best-loved animal tales of all time. They include Kipling's "How the Elephant Got His Trunk"; Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans"; Mark Twain's "A Dog's Tale"; Harriet Beecher Stowe's "The Squirrels That Live in a House," and more.
10) Black beauty
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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve.
Black Beauty is the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.
12) Greek myths
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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From Icarus's legendary flight to Orpheus's trip to the underworld, this edition introduces young readers to classic Greek myths.
15) The odyssey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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An abridged retelling of Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son scheme to protect his throne.
16) The Iliad
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A simplified retelling of Homer's epic tale of the Trojan War.
17) Roman myths
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Several of the best-loved Roman myths are gathered in this one beautiful abridged collection, from "Romulus and Remus" (which tells how Rome came to be) to "Cupid and Psyche," "Oedipus and the Sphinx," and more. For easy reference, there's also a detailed list and family tree of all the important gods and goddesses right at the start. Several of the best-loved Roman myths are gathered in this one beautiful abridged collection, from "Romulus and Remus"...
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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve.
The discovery of a neglected garden transforms the life of a sullen and unloved little girl-and everyone around her, too. When the newly orphaned...
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