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1) Sense and sensibility

Author

Austen, Jane

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22

Lexile measure

1180L

Language

English

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Sense and Sensibility is one of the best loved of Jane Austen's novels, populated by great comic creations like Mrs. Jennings, the unscrupulous cad Willoughby, and guileless and artful women. As ever, Austen suffuses her work with great ironic observation and tremendous wit, producing a masterpiece of romantic entanglement that time and a very different set of mores cannot diminish. Sense and Sensibility was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be...

2) Great expectations

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35

Lexile measure

1200L

Language

English

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"Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman...

3) Kidnapped

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14

Lexile measure

630L

Language

English

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"David Balfour, a Scottish lad, is tricked out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle. Betrayed, and kidnapped aboard a ship, young David must endure the dangers of the high seas. He escapes to the Scottish highlands, only to find himself wrongly accused of murder. One step ahead of the pursuing Redcoats, David encounters treacherous rogues and courageous Highland clansman in his dramatic journey to safety."--P. [4] of cover.

4) The magnificent Ambersons

Author

Tarkington, Booth

Series

American century
Growth trilogy volume 02
Large print fiction title
Barnes and Noble classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18

Language

English

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The Magnificent Ambersons is the epic story of an American family's traumatic tumble from the dizzying heights of fame and fortune. A dynasty spanning three generations, the Ambersons' pre-eminence as society's elite is threatened -- not only by a hungry new breed of industrial entrepreneur -- but from its own arrogance and greed. At the center of the story is George Amberson Minafer, the pampered but pitiful, scion of the clan upon whose shoulders...

5) ...Bleak house, a novel

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

Oxford world's classics
Everyman's library volume 8
The Oxford illustrated Dickens
Modern Library classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67

Lexile measure

1180L

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...

6) The Westing game

Author

Raskin, Ellen

Series

LRS cornerstone
Puffin Modern Classics

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8

Lexile measure

750L

Language

English

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A Newbery Medal Winner For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of...

7) A game of thrones

Author

Martin, George R. R

Series

Song of ice and fire volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45

Lexile measure

830L

Language

English

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NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Software

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Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. To the south, the king's powers are failing - his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from...

8) Sycamore Row

Author

Grisham, John

Series

Jake Brigance novels volume 2
[Jake Brigance volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28

Language

English

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"Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and attorney Jake Brigance into a conflict that raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what...

9) The summons

Author

Grisham, John

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13

Lexile measure

900L

Language

English

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Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. But the family meeting does not take place. The judge dies too...

10) The testament

Author

Grisham, John

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20

Lexile measure

770L

Language

English

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An eccentric, reclusive billionaire looking for a way to die, burnt-out Washington litigator just out of rehab for the fourth time, and a woman who left the modern world to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the jungles of Brazil.

11) The apple orchard

Author

Wiggs, Susan

Series

Bella Vista volume 1

Language

English

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Tess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who refuses to sell her long-gone mother's beloved necklace--despite Tess's advice. To Annelise, the jewel's value is in its memories. But Tess's own history is filled with gaps: a father she never met, a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter. So Tess is shocked when she discovers the grandfather she never knew is in...