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Jane Eyre is the story of the life of its titular protagonist, Jane Eyre, starting with her abusive childhood in Gateshead Hall, and continuing with her challenging education at Lowood School, her time as governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her mysterious employer, Mr. Rochester, her time in the Moor House, where she is courted by her earnest but cold cousin, St. John Rivers, and finally with her reunion with Rochester. Jane...

2) A Christmas carol

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5

Lexile measure

900L

Language

English

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"Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter and selfish old man, and worst of all...he hates Christmas! But this Christmas Eve there's a surprise in store for Scrooge when four spooky ghosts pay him an unexpected visit. As they journey between the past, present and future, Scrooge is shown how his mean and nasty behaviour has affected everyone around him... But is it enough to help Scrooge change his ways, just in time for Christmas Day? Or is he destined to stay...

3) The Secret Garden /

Author

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13

Lexile measure

AD 950L

Language

English

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Description

Book, Audiobook CD, eBook, Kindle

Revisit the hallowed halls of the Misselthwaite Manor in this new edition of the classic novel, The Secret Garden, presented with eye-catching manga-style artwork.Young Mary Lennox is left an orphan when her parents die of illness while living abroad in India. Raised primarily by servants, Mary is left to mourn the loss of her inattentive parents before eventually being sent under the care of her Uncle in Yorkshire, England. It's there in Misselthwaite...

4) Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong

Author

Loewen, James W

Language

English

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Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important--and successful--history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times in the summer of 2006. For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate...

5) A history of US

Author

Hakim, Joy

Lexile measure

860L

Language

English

Description

Vintage contemporaries
Penguin orange collection
Penguin drop caps
Penguin classics
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A History of US is the story of the history of the United States written especially for all ages to enjoy. From the hunting and fishing tribes that first crossed the Bering Strait to the civil rights movement and 20th-century attempts to define America, the 11 books in the series make history an exciting adventure story.

6) The Joy Luck Club

Author

Tan, Amy

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14

Lexile measure

930L

Language

English

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

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

"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description....

7) Julie of the wolves

Author

George, Jean Craighead

Series

Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6

Lexile measure

860L

Language

English

Formats

Description

While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen- year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

8) McGuffey's fifth eclectic reader

Author

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

Educational reader which includes a wide range of authors plus definitions of the more difficult words and pronunciations.

9) Indiana; the story of a progressive commonwealth

Author

Thornton, Joseph Francis

Language

English

10) A patriot's history of the United States: from Columbus's Great Discovery to the war on terror

Author

Schweikart, Larry

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

Description

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

"Is America's past a tale of racism, sexism, and bigotry? Is it the story of the conquest and rape of a continent? Is U.S. history the story of white slave owners who perverted the electoral process for their own interests? Did America start with Columbus's killing of all the Indians, leap to Jim Crow laws and Rockefeller crushing the workers, then finally save itself with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal? The answers, of course are no, no, no, and...

11) Indiana history

Author

Smith, Gale

Language

English

12) The thirty-nine steps

Author

Buchan, John

Series

Richard Hannay adventures volume 1
Dover thrift editions
Oxford world's classics
Children's illustrated classics volume no. 64
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7

Lexile measure

670L

Language

English

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Description

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot that could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his...

13) ... McGuffey's new sixth eclectic reader; exercises in rhetorical reading, with introductory rules and examples

Author

Series

Language

English

Description

The sixth in the remodeled series is designed for advanced pupils.

14) ... McGuffey's eclectic primer

Author

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

in basement

15) McGuffey's fourth eclectic reader

Author

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

Oxford Bookworms Library ; Stage 5 Fantasy and Horror

Educational reader which includes a wide range of authors plus definitions of the more difficult words and pronunciations.

16) Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Author

Dick, Philip K

Series

Lexile measure

490L

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description