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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
A classic novel of the future follows the Time Traveller as he hurtles one million years into the future and encounters a world populated by two distinct races, the childlike Eloi and the disgusting Morlocks who prey on the Eloi.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
While Hank Morgan, Twain's time-displaced Yankee traveller, keeps up a steady stream of flippancies, founding the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, and organizing a game of baseball between armour-clad knights, he also keeps up a steady commentary on the social mores of King Arthur's court, criticizing the hereditary social classes and state church still strong in the Victorian England of Twain's own day, and championing...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
The magic treehouse whisks Jack and Annie back to the days of deserted islands, secret maps, hidden gold, and nasty pirates.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"Twain's firsthand portrait of the steamboat age and the science of riverboat piloting recalls the history of the Mississippi River, from its discovery by Europeans to the writer's own time." *** "Mark Twain's famous account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and his own experiences as a pilot. Its historical sketches, its frequent passages of vivid description, and its humorous episodes combine to make [this] a masterpiece of the...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie to the deck of the Titanic to find the mysterious gift that will free a small dog from a magic spell.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
380L
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
12) The long haul
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle. Morgan le Fay will make Jack and Annie masters of the tree house if only they can solve four riddles -- which will take four books, of course! Dolphins at Daybreak begins the third set of four books in this magical (and increasingly popular) series! Jack and Annie are off in the Magic...
15) Library of souls
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Features more than 50 all-new Peculiar photographs.).
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War where they meet Clara Barton.
17) The cat's table
Author
Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed...
18) Passenger
Author
Series
Passenger volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Two worlds collide in this sweeping, romantic novel about a love that crosses centuries by bestselling author of the Darkest Minds series, Alexandra Bracken"--
19) Drums of autumn
Author
Series
Outlander volume 4
Language
English
Description
Cast ashore in the American colonies, the Frasers are faced with a bleak choice, return to a Scotland fallen in famine and poverty, or seize the risky chance of a new life in the new world---menaced by the certain knowledge of the coming revolution.
20) Wayfarer
Author
Series
Passenger volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Etta finds herself stranded--cut off from Nick and her natural time--and must make her way back to him before the timeline as they know it is destroyed.