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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
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Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. Lassiter, a gunglinging avenger in black, shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 1340L
Language
English
Description
Hester Prynne is the adulteress, forced by the Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter A on the breast of her gown. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister and the secret father of her child, Pearl, struggles with the agony of conscience and his own weakness. Roger Chillingworth, Hester's husband, revenges himself on Dimmesdale by calculating assaults on the frail mental state of the conscience-stricken cleric. The result is an American tragedy of stark...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
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"Considered as one of the classics of twentieth century feminist literature, The Room of One's Own is a book-length essay written by Virginia Woolf. Delineating the basic requirements of a woman to write, the author incorporates detailed revelations of the various power structures that stop a woman to excel and elucidate her creative capabilities. Illustrating the importance of women's literacy through a fictional character named Judith Shakespeare,...
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English
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"In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America's celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children. In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful...
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Gitl (Carol Kane in her Acadamy Awatd nominated role) and her son arrive on the lower East side of New York in 1896 to join her husband Jake (Steven Keats), as they struggle to assimilate while remaining true to their old country ways. (Cannes Film Festival, 1975.)
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
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Progressing through a series of brilliantly colored die-cut pages, a bad-tempered braggart becomes a nicer, happier, better-behaving bug. The arrangement of the book also introduces concepts of comparative size and telling time. Full color illustrations.
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English
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In the seaside village of Paradise Point, a little blind girl is hounded by her classmates until, frightened and disoriented, she falls off a cliff to her death. Years later Dr. Cal Pendleton, his pregnant wife June, and their 12 year-old adopted daughter Michell move in. Michelle starts having strange dreams in which a blind girl named Amanda warns her that the village children are her enemies. After being taunted by the kids, Michelle is injured...
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Match wits with Sherlock Holmes volume 6
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents two Sherlock Holmes adventures, each accompanied by a section identifying the clues mentioned in the story and explaining the reasoning used by Holmes to find a solution. Includes a map highlighting the sites of the mysteries.
10) Paradise
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English
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When corporate raider Matthew Farrell targets a department store empire, he crosses paths with stunning blonde Meredith Bancroft -- and a once-in-a-lifetime passion and bittersweet memories are rekindled for each of them. Can Matt and Meredith believe in each other at last? Or will a hostile takeover shatter their tenuous trust?
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Little house chapter books. Laura volume 13
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
When Laura and her family move from Wisconsin to Kansas, they make friends with a helpful neighbor who comes to their aid later when they settle in the Dakota Territory.
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English
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Hawk's Way Bachelors
Will three incredibly strong and stubbon men of the land rethink their bachelor ways when love comes a-calling?
The Rancher and the Runaway Bride
When lovestruck virgin Tate Whitelaw becomes brawny Adam Philips's adoring woman, her bossy brothers arrive with shotguns in hand!
The Cowboy and the Princess
Will the fiery discord between breathtaking beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old asthmatic Reuben Land chronicles the Land family's odyssey in search of Reuben's older brother, Davy, who has escaped from jail before he can stand trial for the killing of two marauders who came to their Minnesota farm to harm the family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, traveling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman--his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family apart. Spanning three decades from 1899 to 1933, "All...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
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Description
In the near future, Kayla finds herself running for her life when she refuses to get the mandatory bar code tattoo on her seventeenth birthday--a decision that renders her a social outcast and places her family in grave danger. The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice...
18) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
20) The sea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The voice we hear is that of Max, a middle-aged Englishman, a writer and self-described dilettante who has been supported by his wife's money. Now, after his wife's recent death, Max has gone back to the seaside town where he lived as a child--a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his new life without her, and a return to the place where he encountered the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time.
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