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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner he is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captains Courageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book , is thrown into an entirely alien environment. The supersitious, magical world of the sea and the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Dr. James Mortimer, a man of science, visits Sherlock Holmes, a specialist in crime, in order to retrieve his walking stick. However, Dr. James also has a manuscript and a strange story to tell... The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Enigmatic sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, prepares to use his considerable mind in solving the case and uncover the...
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