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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 25
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1150L
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A mature novel that is a fictionalized treatment of the life of the German industrialist who saved the lives of many Jews during World War II. Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's...
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Now, in Three from Galilee, Holmes's fictionalized retelling of the life of Jesus covers a period overlooked by the Gospels-the "lost years" between age 12, when Jesus debated the elders in the temple, to the age of 30, when he actually began his ministry. With great reverence, she dares to wonder what Jesus did during those years, if he was like other young men of his time, and whether he experienced God's greatest gift to humanity-love. Using her...
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1000L
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Benjamin Sippy, a successful but unfulfilled pulp fiction writer in midlife crisis, flees his stable Philadelphia life and wife and nine daughters in search of the lawless West of his stories. After a comically abortive attempt at train-robbing, he happens quite by accident upon a cowboy and his sid ekick, a kid of 20 named Billy Bone, whose one accidental shooting has earned him an undeserved but welcome reputatio n as a dangerous gunslinger. In...
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"Katie Elder had a reputation that stretched from Wichita to California. She was the Queen of the Bargirls--but no man could claim her until Doc Holliday came around. Holliday was a legend all his own--gambler, killer, sometimes doctor, and the outlaw partner of Wyatt Earp. Doc said he'd never met a woman he'd kill for--but that was before he met Big Nose Kate. From Dodge City to Tombstone, they gambled and fought and ran from the law. They were the...
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