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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
GN 1160L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This beloved historical satire, played out in two very different socio-economic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, they realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange garments and roles -- a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters. Brimming with gentle...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness"; the mannish lawyer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters. The man in the hospital bed remembers nothing. Not rusing with his teammates up the stairway of the south tower to help trapped victims. Not being blasted from the building. and not the woman sitting by his bedside who says she is his wife. Jamie Bryan will do anything to help her beloved husband regain his memory, and with it...
5) Mirror image
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
When World War I breaks out, the adventurous New York heiress, Victoria, is prevented from taking part because she is married. So she changes places with her lookalike sister, Olivia, who is a homely type. Everything works, until Olivia falls in love.
6) Enemy
Publisher
Rhombus Media (Enemy) Inc. ; Roxbury Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend, Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double, a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.
7) Shadow man
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When a local prosecutor is killed by a sniper while dining at an exclusive Granite Creek, Colorado, restaurant, a nearby witness who claims that the bullet had been intended for him hires Charlie Moon to uncover the truth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lulu, one of the Lotus Lane Girls, loves all things sparkly and glamorous, so when she hears about a Penelope Glitter look-alike contest she is determined to enter and win--and she is not going to let the still-unresolved problems with neighbor Mika get in the way.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Eddie and Tom are two teenagers with one thing in common: they look exactly alike. So when the boys accidentally meet on the set of Eddie's new movie, they impulsively agree to trade places for the afternoon. But when the production company abruptly leaves the city, Tom and Eddie soon find themselves in deep double trouble when no one believes who they both really are.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Young Englishman Sidney Carton gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves, in an epic novel set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century France.
Publisher
CJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Korean
Description
Amid national chaos and fear for his life, tyrannical King Gwanghae orders his trusted counselor to find a royal body double. He recruits a crude, working-class peasant, Ha-seon, a village performer who bears a startling resemblance to the ruler. When the king falls into a coma from poisoning, he is secreted away to recover and Ha-seon reluctantly assumes the throne, forced to pull off history's biggest masquerade.
Series
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
Ã1996
Language
English
Description
Two animated films based on the novels The prince and the pauper by Mark Twain and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
In The prince and the pauper a prince and a peasant temporarily switch lives, only to find themselves in a race against the clock to return the rightful heir to the throne and save the kingdom from an evil plot. In Treasure Island, young Jim Hawkins and peg-legged Long John Silver set sail for adventure. From dastardly pirates...
Author
Publisher
Modern Publishing
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When chance brings Edward Tudor and Tom Canty together, they decide for fun to switch clothes and places. Exchanging their roles as heir of the throne of England and as a pauper's son, they learn how the other half really lives.
15) The tiger's tail
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"In a society divided by "haves" and "have nots, " wealthy Irish capitalist Liam O'Leary has it all. But now, Liam is being stalked by a menacing look-alike, intent on stealing away everything he has: his job, his wife, and his sanity. As his perfect world comes crashing down, Liam must fight to stay alive and uncover the shocking secret of his shadowy past before it destroys him". -- container.
16) Impulse
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Claire Dennison is a beautiful, sensuous woman, desperate to arouse her husband's desires. She devises a fantasy role-play game hoping to put the spark back into their marriage. She sets the scene and her husband takes the bait-- or does he? So consumed with desire, the passion enthralls her, but it's not long before Claire realizes she's playing a dangerous game of seduction with someone so familiar, yet completely unknown. Desperate to end the affair,...