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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper seeks to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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In “Madame Bovary”, Charles, an awkward country doctor courts and weds Emma, the beautiful young daughter of a patient. Emma, unsuited to the role of housewife, quickly gets restless and begins to explore her passions. This leads to infidelities which she hides from Charles and, eventually, mounting debts as she turns to merchandise for her happiness. Flaubert’s novel is cited as the first example of literary realism and has been called a “perfect”...
3) The waves
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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One of Woolf's most experimental novels, this book presents six characters in monologue against the vivid background of the sea.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 66
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
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Published in 1850, David Copperfield is Charles Dickens' eighth novel and the one that most closely follows the author's own life. A coming of age story, it describes David's life from childhood with a difficult stepfather, his schooling, his entry into the workforce, his courtship and marriage(s) and his eventual success as an author. Filled with colorful characters like Wilkins Micawber and Betsey Trotwood, and unforgettable villains like Uriah...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2003?], ©1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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The story of 17-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Over six turbulent months, she fills three diaries with sharply funny yet poignant entries and manages to find herself hopelessly in love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle" and the heart of the reader.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 39
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English
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The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Bremerhaven, Germany. The passenger list is long and portentous, and includes a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests, and a host of others. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges forever changed. Rich in incident, passion, and treachery, the novel explores themes...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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When "All Quiet on the Western Front" - a quasi-autobiographical war novel by German army veteran Erich Maria Remarque - was published in 1928, it was an immediate sensation. Few books before it had dared to describe in such detail the privations, challenges and horrors of war and the book became a publishing juggernaut, selling 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print.
It has since become a classic of the genre; a...
10) Bless me, Ultima
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer.
12) The yearling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. Relive the wonder of a childhood favorite that has been capturing the hearts of readers for more than half a century. An instant bestseller when it was released in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize winner has been read and loved by school-age children across the nation for more than fifty years. In this classic story of the Baxter family and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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A poignant tale of childhood and the ties of family, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" will transport the reader to the early 1900s where a little girl named Francie dreamily looks out her window at a tree struggling to reach the sky.
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Queen of Hearts volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Revolution is rising in Wonderland. Dinah's battle has begun.
Colleen Oakes's twisted reimagining of the Queen of Hearts origin story continues in this thrilling sequel, Blood of Wonderland.
Dinah has been exiled from Wonderland. The vicious father she always feared has framed her for the brutal murder of her brother and turned the kingdom against her.
Now hiding in the lush and mysterious Twisted Wood with only her war steed at her side, Dinah...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
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The youngest son of a Welsh coal-mining family recalls the tender and tragic experiences of his youth at the turn of the century with his courageous and loving parents and brothers and sisters.
18) Tex
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
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The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
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Decades after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying....
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