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1) 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...

2) The great Gatsby

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Series

Oxford world's classics
(Francis Scott),Works
Classics on cassette with book
Hudson River editions
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8

Lexile measure

HL 710L

Language

English

Formats

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

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"A beautifully illustrated version of the original 1925 edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic work. Widely considered to be the greatest American novel of all time, The Great Gatsby is the story of the wealthy, quixotic Jay Gatsby and his obsessive love for debutante Daisy Buchanan. It is also a cautionary tale of the American Dream in all its exuberance, decadence, hedonism, and passion. First published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons, The...

3) Great expectations

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

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

Lexile measure

1200L

Language

English

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

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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...

4) The Hunchback of Notre- Dame

Author

Hugo, Victor

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.8 - AR Pts: 38

Lexile measure

1120L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary...

5) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

Oxford world's classics
Harper's modern classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Mark Twain library
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21

Lexile measure

1080L

Language

English

Formats

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

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After being cracked on the head with a crowbar at the Colt factory in Hartford, Connecticut, Hank Morgan awakens to find himself in sixth-century England. Captured by a knight and sentenced to death by King Arthur, the cagey Yankee instead becomes the king's right-hand wizard. Though homesick for the nineteenth century, Morgan makes the best of his surroundings, setting up factories and phone lines, as well as introducing such strange customs as advertising...

6) An offer from a gentleman

Author

Quinn, Julia

Series

Bridgerton series volume 3
Avon romance

Language

English

Formats

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

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Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball--or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes...

7) At first sight

Author

Sparks, Nicholas

Series

Jeremy Marsh volume 02

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13

Lexile measure

820L

Language

English

Formats

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There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling...

8) Bulfinch's mythology

Author

Bulfinch, Thomas

Series

Modern Library book
Modern Library Audiobook

Lexile measure

1190L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook Cassette, eBook

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A beautiful gift edition of Thomas Bulfinch's classic retelling of famous myths and folk legends, with interpretive essays by Princeton classics professor Richard P. Martin.

9) Michael O'Halloran

Author

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Series

Library of Indiana classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Manuscript

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Story of people who do credit to human nature. Michael O'Halloran or Mickey, all alone after his mother's death, has decided to get a dog when he discovers Peaches, a mite of a girl with a crippled back. Mickey's discipline and tender care ultimately result in a new back and a new world for Peaches.