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1) Jane Eyre
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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Description
An orphan who endures a harsh child hood, Jane Eyre becomes the plain yet spirited governess at Thornfield Hall in the employment of the mysterious arrogant Mr. Rochester.
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Language
English
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Description
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. This, the only critical edition of Galsworthy's popular masterpiece, contains detailed notes which are vital to the saga, explaining particularly the contemporary artistic and literary allusions, and slang of the time.
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Language
English
Description
Imagine if Romeo and Juliet were set among the sheep ranching families of Arizona. Add in a heavy dash of frontier action and adventure, and that neatly sums up the plot of Zane Grey's To the Last Man, which follows a blossoming romance among members of feuding clans in the vast open plains of the Wild West.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Treasure Island is an adventure novel for young adults written by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was serialized in 1881 and 1882 and published in 1883. It is frequently dramatized in plays, television, and film, and has had an enormous influence on popular culture, particularly on public perceptions of pirate and sea-faring life. It is considered a coming-of-age tale and belongs to a genre of sea novels popular in the 19th century.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen is one of the founders of classic novels for women. Her most famous novel Pride and Prejudice is rightfully considered to be the masterpiece of the world literature. Walter Scott, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf and Richard Aldington admired the talented (3z(Bfirst Lady(3y (Bof the English literature. Wittily and directly described actions of the Pride and Prejudice happen in provincial England in the end of eighteenth century. For about...
9) Moby-Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick in this children's version of Melville's Moby Dick.
10) The Iliad
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Language
English
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Description
Near the end of the ten year long Trojan war, detailing the destructive quarrel between Paris warrior-hero Achilles and King Agamemnon ...
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Series
Publisher
Big & Small
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A tiny little girl grows from a seed in a lonely woman's garden. She is very happy there sleeping in her walnut shell bed -- until she is kidnapped by a toad and embarks on a strange adventure!
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