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The works of George Eliot volume 9-10
Complete Works of George Eliot in 6 Vols volume Vol. 5
Modern Library classics
Complete Works of George Eliot in 6 Vols volume Vol. 5
Modern Library classics
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English
Description
Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centered, Gwendolen is trapped in an increasingly destructive relationship, and only her chance encounter with the idealistic Deronda seems to offer the hope of a brighter future. Deronda is searching for a vocation, and in embracing the Jewish cause he finds one that is both visionary and life-changing. Damaged by their pasts,...
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Molly Moon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.
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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...
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Lexile measure
1140L
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English
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The Golden Age (1895) is a collection of stories by Kenneth Grahame. Although less popular than The Wind in the Willows (1908), which would go on to become not only a defining work of Edwardian English literature, but one of the most popular works of children's fiction in the world, The Golden Age is a moving portrait of youth, an understated autobiographical meditation made for children and adults alike.
Recalling his youth among elders who exemplified...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
"Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess tells the story of Sara Crewe, a young girl who has been left at a boarding school by her wealthy father. There, she displays all the attributes of an ideal pupil, treating the other children with kindness and compassion. But the headmistress, Miss Minchin, is jealous of Sara's wealth and seizes the first opportunity to put the young girl "in her place" when misfortune strikes. This handsome Word Cloud...
7) Jo's boys
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
AD 920L
Language
English
Description
Revisit the hallowed halls of the Misselthwaite Manor in this new edition of the classic novel, The Secret Garden, presented with eye-catching manga-style artwork.Young Mary Lennox is left an orphan when her parents die of illness while living abroad in India. Raised primarily by servants, Mary is left to mourn the loss of her inattentive parents before eventually being sent under the care of her Uncle in Yorkshire, England. It's there in Misselthwaite...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Gerald finds himself the heir to twenty billion pounds from an aunt he never met, he inherits with it a mystery surrounding his aunt's death and various artifacts in the British Museum.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"Rebellious Catherine is the daughter of a well-off family in fourteenth-century England. Girls like her are expected to obey their parents and sit quietly with their sewing, not go on adventures. Her mother wants to teach her how to be a lady and her father wants to merry her off, but Catherine herself has other ideas" -- Back cover
11) Scrivener's moon
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London, the city on wheels, is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain--and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.
12) Dream days
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English
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The further adventures of five brothers and sisters growing up in the English countryside in the late nineteenth century. Sequel to "The Golden Age."
13) The look
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When she is spotted by a modeling agency and her beautiful sister falls seriously ill, gangly fifteen-year-old Edwina "Ted" Trout must choose between fame and family.
14) See no evil
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Nettie's sheltered and privileged life changes after her beloved tutor mysteriously disappears and Nettie, aided by the son of a household employee, begins to learn the truth about her father, whose wealth began with trafficking in illegal aliens.
15) The end
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Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
"The final battle ensues between Saint George's army of sickos and the army of London kids"--
16) Fever Crumb
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer, although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought. But at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
17) Tape
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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English teens Ameliah and Ryan, who live twenty years apart, meet fortuitously when each begins recording cassette tapes to work through family problems and hears the other's voice speaking back.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping to bring back her father and the other missing royals of Cello, Princess Ko gathers a group of teens, each with a special ability, including Elliot, whose forbidden communications with Madeleine may be the key to traveling across worlds.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the beautiful Cartier makeup compact she bought at a flea market, Phoebe finds a letter written during World War II in London, from one sister to another, which contains a "spell" for bringing people closer together, a kind of treasure hunt around London--and Phoebe could really use such a spell, because her older sister, Alice, will be leaving for university soon, and just now she seems to be cutting Phoebe out of her life.
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