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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
An adaptation of the classic novel in which young Tom Sawyer embarks on a series of adventures along the Mississippi River with his friends Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, including witnessing a murder, looking for buried treasure, and, of course, whitewashing a fence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious-during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde-has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1420L
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...
8) Hamlet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 370L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on the No Fear Shakespeare translations, this dynamic graphic novel-now with color added-is impossible to put down. The illustrations are distinctively offbeat, slightly funky, and appealing. Illustrations that show the reader exactly what's happening in each scene-making the plot and characters clear and easy to follow." --Amazon.
9) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
"Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements--and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done... But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated to forever be alone, it has nothing left but revenge." --
10) Romeo and Juliet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 450L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A classic Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and Juliet is the tale of two star-crossed young lovers who dare to defy their feuding families, put aside all obstacles, and find happiness together - but at a tremendous cost. This grimly beautiful tale, set in Renaissance Italy, follows Romeo and Juliet from their fateful first meeting to their last. "--Amazon.com.
11) Kidnapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 480L
Language
English
Description
After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
12) Moby-Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Enjoy Melville's classic novel of revenge in a colorful graphic edition. Abridged for fast-paced reading, this book features illustrations that vividly tell the tale. Ishmael's adventure on a whaling ship turns into a nightmare as they relentlessly chase the monster whale who once maimed their captain. Hell-bent on revenge and blindly obsessed, Captain Ahab is willing to risk everything . . . even his own and his crew's lives." --Amazon.
13) Dracula
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
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Description
"An ancient evil lurks in the dark heart of Transylvania - but it won't lurk there forever. Now Count Dracula's immortal eyes look toward London, a new land full of opportunity and unsuspecting victims. A ragged band of survivors must stop him before it is too late... but how?" --$ccover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
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Description
"London, England. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the most significant event in human history has come to pass. Contact from an alien planet has been achieved. Rocket capsules fired from the surface of Mars have crashed into the southern English countryside. But what should be a moment of scientific curiosity and wonderful first contact between two alien worlds turns instead into disaster. The annihilative weapons of the Martians leave no...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
"Jules Verne's classic deep-sea adventure lends itself beautifully to this manga-style portrayal of the maniacal Captain Nemo and his crew aboard the Nautilus. The story begins with an international crisis-the mysterious destruction of warships, apparently by a gigantic sea monster. A team that includes Professor Pierre Aronnax, a noted marine biologist, heads out to sea to find and destroy the menace, and only after the monster destroys their own...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The classic story of a boy who makes his own rules and the small Missouri town where he and his friends experience the adventures of a lifetime Filled with schoolyard pranks, buried treasures, spooky caves, secret gangs, and grave robbers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is entertainment of the highest order. The clever schemes of its eponymous hero--from tricking his friends into completing his chores to sneaking into his own funeral--are the stuff...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 390L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Enjoy Shakespeare's magical comedy in a colorful graphic edition. Abridged for fast-paced reading, this book features illustrations that vividly tell the tale. Helena loves Demetrius, Demetrius loves Hermia, and Hermia and Lysander love each other and want to marry-but her father says “no.” How true it is that “the course of true lovenever did run smooth.” Four foolish mortals, as well as for a quarrelling fairy king and queen, star in Shakespeare's...
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