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1) A tale of two cities

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27

Lexile measure

1130L

Language

English

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

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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...

2) Little women

Author

Alcott, Louisa May

Series

Little Women series volume 1
Golden days
Little women collection volume 1
Rainbow classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33

Lexile measure

AD 610L

Language

English

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

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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

3) The red badge of courage

Author

Crane, Stephen

Series

Timeless Classics
Library of America paperback classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Appleton modern literature
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Accelerated Reader

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

Lexile measure

900L

Language

English

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

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Henry Fleming is a young private in the Union army during the American Civil War--a farm boy untested by battle. Faced with charging rebels, he flees. With his ideals shattered and his heart burdened by shame, Henry seeks an opportunity to redeem himself, even hoping for a wound--a "red badge of courage"--to prove his bravery. Focusing on the inner psychological struggles and sensory perceptions of an individual soldier, Stephen Crane introduced...

4) War and peace, a novel

Author

Tolstoy, Leo

Series

Oxford world's classics
$5.00
Norton critical edition
Penguin classics deluxe edition
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118

Lexile measure

1200L

Language

English

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

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"At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon?s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes--conflict...

5) The war of the worlds

Author

Wells, H. G

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3

Lexile measure

1160L

Language

English

Formats

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

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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own.... So begins The War of the Worlds, the science fiction classic that first proposed the possibility of intelligent life on other planets and has enthralled readers for generations. This compelling tale describes the Martian invasion of earth. When huge, tireless...