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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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This beautiful edition contains W. W. Denslow's 148 original full-color illustrations. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is America's first and greatest fairy tale. Its unforgettable characters and adventures made it an instant classic.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms minor historical figures into larger- than-life characters: the Comte d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the beguilingly...
4) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Little orphan Heidi has been sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi is fascinated by his long beard and bushy eyebrows. Then one terrible day Heidi is collected by her aunt and made to work for a new family in town. Heidi cannot bear to be away from her grandfather; can she find her way back up the mountain, where she belongs? [From publisher's description]
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Banned Book Week (on the low table by the door for censorship books/book bans) and Banned Books - all around the library! 2024
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Filled with adventure and humor, Mark Twain's classic novel vividly recreates the world he knew and loved from his years as a Mississippi riverboat captain. Young Huckleberry Finn is one of Twain's greatest creations and one of the most enduring characters in all American literature. He has no mother, and his father is usually drunk, often violent, and almost always vagrant. Huck must live by his wiles, his wits and at times, by petty thievery. But...
10) Rip Van Winkle
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Series
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English
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An eighteenth-century idler who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakens to a much-changed world.
11) Dracula
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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""But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings... I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a storm blows Dorothy to the land of Ev where lunches grow on trees, she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and Princess Ozma, and together they set out to free the Queen of Ev and her ten children.
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Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Here are sixteen of the best stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. For nearly a century, the work of O. Henry has delighted readers with its humor, irony and colorful, real-life settings. The writer's own life had more than a touch of color and irony. Born William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1862, he worked on a Texas ranch, then as a bank teller in Austin, then as a reporter for the Houston "Post." Adversity struck,...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Selected stories from Kipling's two "Jungle Books" chronicle the adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle. Also includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi."
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When four brothers and sisters discover a Psammead, or sand-fairy, in the gravel pit near the country house where they are staying, they have no way of knowing all the adventures its wish-granting will bring them.
19) Bearskin
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Series
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brave young man who has been raised by a bear with unusual powers rescues a princess from a menacing dragon and fulfills a long-ago prophecy that he would marry the king's daughter.
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