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2) Viking
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of the Vikings--their ships and weapons, heroes and myths, and great adventures in war and exploration.
"Become an eyewitness to the world of Nordic raiders and traders and learn all about the culture and history of Vikings. This picture-led guide will take you on a visual tour of the history and culture of these daring Norse adventurers. Children can learn all about the Vikings' incredible ships and conquests, as well as...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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Description
When the kind and imaginative seven-year-old Sara Crewe reaches Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies with her papa, she doesn't quite like it. "'I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers--even brave ones-- don't really like going into battle." The apple of her father's eye, Sara has all the privileges at the seminary and is treated with special care. Soon enough, she befriends her classmates and is nicknamed a 'princess',...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1250L
Language
English
Description
In 1849, Eliza Sommers follows her fiance to California, where he has gone in search of gold. Her experiences in the harsh land gripped by gold fever transform her.
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andiera, a lowly clerk who works for...
5) Africa
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A survey of the kingdoms and peoples of pre-colonial Africa reveals the traditional lifestyles, beliefs, skills, and crafts of the ancient continent, from the Sahara southwards.
9) Castle
Author
Series
Eyewitness books volume 49
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Looks behind fortress walls to explore how they were built to house hundreds of people and animals, the important rooms, the people who lived in them, and what castle life was like.
10) Les misérables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 105
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
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Language
English
Description
"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Horrified at the thought of caring for talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca, the spinster aunts nevertheless spend seven difficult years raising their niece, rewarding years for all three inhabitants of the little brick house in a small New England town.
15) Howard's End
Author
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From one of our most beloved authors, a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home--now richly illustrated with almost four hundred images. A national bestseller, At Home is Bill Bryson's epic chronicle of domestic history. In this lavish new edition, his riveting room-by-room journey of discovery around his house--a Victorian parsonage in southern England--is enhanced by some four hundred carefully selected full color and...
18) Stardust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
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Description
The story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. He has fallen in love with beautiful Victoria Forester and in order to win her hand, he must retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to her.
19) Bleak House
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket.
20) Walden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
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Description
Presents Thoreau's reflections on his experiences living alone in the woods surrounding Walden Pond and his philosophy concerning humankind's need to reevaluate life and commune with nature.
