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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1530L
Language
English
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Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
This deluxe hardcover edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy contains a short introduction by Christopher Tolkien, a reset text incorporating the most up-to-date corrections, and all of Tolkien's own drawings and full-color illustrations, including the rare “Mirkwood” piece.
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GN 620L
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English
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The Call of Cthulhu is a science fiction short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. In it, the narrator recounts a sequence of portentous discoveries which indicate that a vast, ancient cosmic pantheon of supernatural deities with the power to erase humankind is awakening after a long slumber. Credited with inspiring the "Cthulhu Mythos", a kind of literary genre unto itself that expands upon the universe set forth in "The Call of Chtulhu", this...
5) The prince
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1510L
Language
English
Description
Need to seize a country? Have enemies you must destroy? In this handbook for despots and tyrants, the Renaissance statesman Machiavelli sets forth how to accomplish this and more, while avoiding the awkwardness of becoming generally hated and despised. "Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be...
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