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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.8 - AR Pts: 82
Language
English
Description
A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son. Tom falls in love with the beautiful and unattainable Sophia Western, a neighbor's daughter, whose marriage has already been arranged. When Tom's sexual misadventures around the countryside get him banished, he sets out to make his fortune and find his true identity. Against the vivid background of eighteenth-century London,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
"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) The guardian
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English
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After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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English
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The Queen of Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer, delights readers with a charming tale of a duke who is tired of playing by the rules.
The Duke of Sale is out to prove himself
The shy, young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware, Gilly for short, has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling from his uncle and valet. But his natural diffidence
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1330L
Language
English
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Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold, but one day, a strange set of events draws Marner into the web of the community.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock. To this isolated island, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up carrying a dead man and a living baby. In M. L. Stedman's mesmerizing novel, we are seduced into accommodating...
8) Silas Marner
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1240L
Language
English
Description
Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.
9) Blessings
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The story of Skip Cuddy, the Blessings caretaker, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him, Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community. This is a powerful novel...
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Bunnicula series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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"Bunnicula" is the most accessible of vampire books. It doesn't star a human vampire. Some dogs have an inherent dignity about them that sees them through even the most ridiculous of situations with their heads held high. Harold is such a dog. Harold lives, with his close companion, Chester the cat, with the Monroe family. Life with the Monroes has never been what you would call "exciting". That is, until the family comes back one day from a "Dracula"...
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon. So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the beginning of another....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
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Hans, a foundling raised by a grave robber, and Countess Angela Gabriela, nearly thirteen, embark on a quest to discover Hans' true identity end to save Angela's parents from the evil archduke whose castle Angela has escaped.
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Delphine series volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When sixteen-year-old Delphine, a dressmaker mouse in Cinderella's chateau, learns of her connection to Threaded, magical tailor mice of legend, she undertakes an epic quest to claim her identity" --
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"Christmas is always the most peaceful time in Cape Light. The snow-covered cottages and gleaming lights make the seaside hamlet look like everyone's favorite Christmas card. But there is more magic and wonder that usual this year. For as Mayor Emily Warwick jogs through town she discovers an abandoned baby girl lying in the creche of the nativity set outside the Church...Emily gets temporary custody of Baby Jane and begins to wonder: Was she meant...
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