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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Description
After her Air Force flight is hijacked and crashes, Lila becomes trapped in a secret weapons pod at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, unable to do anything but wait for rescue--and when Jay and their father try to save her, they find themselves racing a group of terrorists to the pod.
Author
Language
English
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A 17th Century Italian knight recounts his adventures during a siege in the Thirty Years' War and afterwards in naval espionage against the British. In between, he describes the salons of Paris, lessons in fencing and reasons of state, and gives his thoughts on writing love letters and on blasphemy.
3) Lord Jim
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character...
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