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61) Twilight
Author
Series
Twilight saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
62) The Silmarillion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit. Tolkien considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, a girl faces prejudice and accusations of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Connecticut. Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her...
64) Mary Poppins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Two English children's new nanny arrives on the East Wind, slides up the bannister, carries an empty carpet bag with all kinds of things in it, and introduces Jane and Michael to some delightful people and experiences.
65) Double down
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley's mom wants him to take a break from video games while Halloween approaches and he comes up with an idea to make a movie.
66) The pearl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement. When the Watson family--ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron--sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don't realize that they're heading toward one of the darkest moments in America's history. The...
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Language
English
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Description
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
The irrepressible Anne Shirley dreams of the woman she hopes to be when she decides to leave Green Gables and her beloved Prince Edward Island for college. She is eager for new adventure. But now she faces difficult choices involving her secret aspirations to be a writer and her hopes of finding the right person to marry. When she is the recipient of unexpected marriage proposals from the most unlikely young men, she may shock friends and Islanders...
70) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
AD 1000L
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical backround of the story.
Author
Series
I survived volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 570L
Language
English
Description
"When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City."
72) Anna Karenina
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 69
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina is the story of a married aristocrat/socialite and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story opens when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing. A bachelor, Vronsky is eager to marry her if she will agree to leave her husband Karenin, a senior government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, the moral laws of the Russian Orthodox Church, her...
73) The last straw
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.
74) The Martian
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
75) The jungle book
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
NC 1140L
Language
English
Description
Deep in the pages of the Jungle Book romps a boy raised by wolves, a mongoose who raises up against a deadly cobra, & a young seal who raises the question: What's out there in the great wide world? Rudyard Kipling's enduring collection of adventurous tales are written with warmth, wit, & a gentle wisdom for readers of all ages.
Author
Series
Enchanted Forest chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Bored with traditional palace life, Princess Cimorene travels to the Mountains of Morning where she is befriended by a group of powerful dragons and joins in their struggle to protect their kingdom from being taken over by disreputable wizards.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.5 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
NC 1300L
Language
English
Description
Gulliver's strange adventures in some of the most unusual lands ever imagined have made this one of the rare classics with an enduring and wide-ranging appeal to all ages. Gulliver's bad luck at sea not only gets him shipwrecked and castaway, but repeatedly throws him into strange societies of even stranger people. Readers are likely aware of Gulliver's experiences in Lilliput, where he meets a kingdom of six-inch-tall people with a set of prejudices...
78) The sea-wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of a wealthy young man who is rescued after a shipwreck by the brutal, ruthless captain of a tramp steamer.
79) Fudge-a-mania
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Peter chronicles his family's vacation in Maine highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge and the presence of his sworn enemy Sheila Tubman.
80) Rodrick rules
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.-"Whatever you do, don't ask Greg Heffley about his summer vacation. As Greg enters the new school year, he's eager to put the events of the past three months behind him ... and one event in particular. Greg knows...