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1) Kidnapped
Author
Series
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.
2) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Born and raised in the appalling deprivation of a Victorian-era London workhouse, the orphan Oliver escapes the drudgery of apprenticeship only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach the boy the trick of the pick-pocket's trade lead only to his almost immediate capture. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr....
3) Dracula
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
HL 1070L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"When Jonathan Harker visits Count Dracula in a Transylvanian castle, he soon realizes he may be a prisoner rather than a guest. Can he return alive and sane to his fianče, Mina Murray, in England? And will Mina's dear friend, Lucy, survive the strange illness that has left her sleepwalking unpredictably with two red puncture marks on her neck? What follows is romance, horror, and a full-on vampire hunt"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
On a freezing February day, a stranger emerges from out of the gray to request a room at a local provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why does he disguise himself in this manner and keep himself hidden away in his room? Aroused by trepidation and curiosity, the local villagers bring it upon themselves to find the answers. What they discover is a man trapped in a terror...
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated re-telling of the story of Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England who is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.
Author
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
An illustrated adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's story about ten-year-old Mary, who comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Author
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles," in which Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the tale of a hound that haunts the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
20) White Fang
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An illustrated retelling of Jack London's classic tale in which part wolf and part dog, orphaned White Fang relies on his instincts as well as his inborn strength and courage to survive in the Yukon wilderness despite both animal and human predators but eventually comes to make his peace with man.