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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner he is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captains Courageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book , is thrown into an entirely alien environment. The supersitious, magical world of the sea and the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon challenged when the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley,...
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Series
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
"In one of his beloved early bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener crafts a tale of the American men who fought the Korean War, detailing their exploits in the air as well as their lives on the ground. Young and innocent, they arrive in a place they have barely ever heard of, on a ship massive enough to carry planes and helicopters. Trained as professionals, they prepare for the rituals of war that countless men before them...
6) Mrs. Mike
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness,Mrs. Mikeis a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of Canada to life and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.
Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, after a long, hard journey from Boston, sixteen-year-old Katherine Mary O'Fallon never imagined
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
During the late decades of the last century and the early 1900's, a small band of California indians of the Yahi tribe lived. This is a story of the deliberate and pointless massacre of the Indians and the resistance of these Indians to their invaders.
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English
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Blast off with "From the Earth to the Moon," a visionary science fiction masterpiece from the iconic Jules Verne. This groundbreaking novel spins an extraordinary tale of the daring Baltimore Gun Club, a post-Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, who devise an audacious plan to catapult a spaceship to the moon. In the era before actual lunar expeditions, Verne astonishingly predicts technological advancements and the thrill of space exploration,...
9) The sound of music: a new musical play. Suggested by The Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp
Author
Series
Bantam pathfinder edition volume HP4049
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
12) Star Trek 9
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Series
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Explore the outer reaches with the "Enterprise" and her crew as they exchange bodies with an alien intelligence ; engage in deadly war games ; pursue a vaporous creature to a desolate planet ; and probe a fearsome zone of darkness that threatens to destroy them all.....Based on the Star trek television series.
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