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1) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Series

Scholastic classics
Greenwich House classics library
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers
Recorded Books classics library
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2

Lexile measure

AD 920L

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript, Playaway

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"In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial,...

2) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

First Avenue Classics
Amazon Classics
Rainbow classics
Best loved classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

GN 990L

Language

English

Formats

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

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A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the...

3) To kill a mockingbird

Author

Lee, Harper

Series

To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Harper Perennial modern classics
The World's best reading
Popular library volume M2000
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15

Lexile measure

790L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print

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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel-a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The...

4) Roll of thunder, hear my cry

Author

Taylor, Mildred D

Series

Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Puffin modern classics
Logans volume 04
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10

Lexile measure

920L

Language

English

Formats

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

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An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

5) Go set a watchman

Author

Lee, Harper

Series

To kill a mockingbird volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10

Lexile measure

870L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

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Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.

6) The reckoning

Author

Grisham, John

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Large Print, Playaway

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Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...

7) Alex Cross's trial

Author

Patterson, James

Series

Alex Cross novels volume 15

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

Formats

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

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Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.

8) Cry, the beloved country

Author

Paton, Alan

Series

Scribner classics
Scribner library of contemporary classics
A Scribner classic
Thorndike Press large print core
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14

Lexile measure

860L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

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"This book is the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, " We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved...

9) Small great things: a novel

Author

Picoult, Jodi

Series

Ruth Jefferson volume 01

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24

Lexile measure

HL 800L

Language

English

Appears on list

NYT - E-Book Fiction

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

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Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress...

10) The Underground Railroad: a novel

Author

Whitehead, Colson

Lexile measure

890L

Language

English

Formats

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

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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...

11) 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

Formats

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

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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...

12) A passage to India

Author

Forster, E. M

Series

Harbrace modern classics
Greatest books of the twentieth century
Everyman's library
Charnwood library
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 18

Lexile measure

950L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

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In this hard-hitting novel, first published in 1924, the murky personal relationship between an Englishwoman and an Indian doctor mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, eager to experience the "real" India, develop a friendship with the urbane Dr. Aziz. While on a group outing, Adela and Dr. Aziz visit the Marabar caves together. As they emerge, Adela accuses the doctor of assaulting her. While...