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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 105
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
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Description
Jean valjean, my brother you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." With ths proclamation of redemption, newly released prisoner jean valjean embarks on the path of virtue, and a classic of world literature soars. Les Miserables is the story of jean valjean's transformation from criminal to hero, and his dedication to doing good...
2) Middlemarch
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 64
Language
English
Description
"George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career;...
Author
Series
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,...
7) Moby Dick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...
10) Doctor Zhivago
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 36
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
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"Boris Pasternak's Widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky, the award-winning translators of war and Peace and Anna karenina, and to whom. The New York Review of Books declared. "the English-speaking world is indebted."" "First published in Italy in 1957 amid internatrional controversy---the novel was banned in the Soviet Union Until 1988. and Pasternak declined the...
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