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1) Jane Eyre

Author

Brontë, Charlotte

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33

Lexile measure

840L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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Jane Eyre is the story of the life of its titular protagonist, Jane Eyre, starting with her abusive childhood in Gateshead Hall, and continuing with her challenging education at Lowood School, her time as governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her mysterious employer, Mr. Rochester, her time in the Moor House, where she is courted by her earnest but cold cousin, St. John Rivers, and finally with her reunion with Rochester. Jane...

2) A tale of two cities

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

The Nonesuch Dickens
First Avenue Classics
Greenwich House classics library
Chartwell classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27

Lexile measure

HL 870L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript

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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...

3) Emma

Author

Austen, Jane

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30

Lexile measure

740L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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"The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of the timeless classic, Emma, the story of the well-meaning matchmaker of High bury village. Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin's series adds elaborately designed ephemera, such as letters, invitations, and...

4) To kill a mockingbird

Author

Lee, Harper

Series

To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Harper Perennial modern classics
The World's best reading
Popular library volume M2000
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15

Lexile measure

790L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print

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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel-a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The...

5) A wrinkle in time

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Series

Time quintet volume 1
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
Laurel-leaf books
Yearling book
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7

Lexile measure

740L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook Cassette, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway, Playaway Bookpack

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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. It was a dark and stormy night Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen...

6) Because of Winn-Dixie

Author

DiCamillo, Kate

Series

Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
Thorndike Press® Large Print Mini-Collections

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3

Lexile measure

670L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook Cassette, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Kit, Large Print, Playaway Wonderbook

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One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.

7) Persuasion

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Oxford world's classics
Vintage classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Xist Classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 19

Lexile measure

1120L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant...