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1) Kidnapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors...
Series
Criterion collection volume 325
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.
7) Kidnapped
Author
Publisher
Marvel Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Collects all five issues of the comic series based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale about a boy who learns his father's brother may have killed his parents in order to get his hands on their large estate.