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1) The giver

Author

Lowry, Lois

Series

Giver quartet volume 1
The Giver Graphic Novel
EMC masterpiece series access editions
Laurel-leaf books

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7

Lexile measure

760L

Language

English

Formats

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

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Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth.

2) Wuthering heights

Author

Brontë, Emily

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23

Lexile measure

880L

Language

English

Formats

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

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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...

3) Oliver Twist

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2

Lexile measure

990L

Language

English

Formats

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

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Born and raised in the appalling deprivation of a Victorian-era London workhouse, the orphan Oliver escapes the drudgery of apprenticeship only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach the boy the trick of the pick-pocket's trade lead only to his almost immediate capture. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr....

4) Persuasion

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Oxford world's classics
Vintage classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Bantam classic
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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...

5) Brave new world

Author

Huxley, Aldous

Series

Modern library of the world's best books volume 48
Harper Perennial modern classics
Charnwood library
The Queen's classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11

Lexile measure

870L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

Description

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Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine”...

6) How to win friends and influence people

Author

Carnegie, Dale

Lexile measure

1020L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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Carnegie's classic bestseller--an inspirational personal-development guide that shows how to achieve lifelong success--is now in a newly packaged edition, the first hardcover release of this classic since 1981.

7) Lord of the flies

Author

Golding, William

Series

Penguin great books of the 20th century
Penguin drop caps
A Putnam Capricorn book Cap 14

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9

Lexile measure

770L

Language

English

Formats

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

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The 50th Anniversary Edition of the Lord of the Flies is the volume that every fan of this classic book will have to own! Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who...

8) A man called Ove

Author

Backman, Fredrik

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15

Lexile measure

870L

Language

English

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NYT - E-Book Fiction

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

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"Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox,...

9) Ulysses /by James Joyce

Author

Joyce, James

Series

Methuen Drama modern classics
Oxford world's classics
Greatest books of the twentieth century
Modern library G-52
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 46

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyces first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely follows the episodes of Ulysses from the Odyssey...

10) The ugly truth

Author

Kinney, Jeff

Series

Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3

Lexile measure

1000L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway Bookpack

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While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.

11) Divergent

Author

Roth, Veronica

Series

Divergent trilogy volume 1
Thorndike Press large print literacy bridge

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16

Lexile measure

HL 700L

Language

English

Formats

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

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In dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue -- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice Prior, the decision is between staying with her family and being...

12) The Hunger Games

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15

Lexile measure

810L

Language

English

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NYT - Children’s Series

Formats

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

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"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward...