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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1250L
Language
English
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When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given short shrift by the researcher, notorious for manhandling nosy enquirers. But Challenger, impressed by the young journalist's thirst for adventure, invites Malone along on his next expedition, plunging him into a mysterious and dangerous world populated...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
This mystery written 1886 is a story that marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The book's title derives from a speech given by a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, our duty is to unravel...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1250L
Language
English
Description
Two scientists, a big game hunter, and a journalist travel to the Amazon rain forest. On a volcanic plateau, they discover an isolated world still inhabited by dinosaurs, climaxing in a chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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