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Author
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas in the mid-nineteenth century as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
GN 670L
Language
English
Description
"I'll bet you 20,000 pounds that I can travel around the world in 80 days!" said Phileas Fogg. The time is 1872, when trains and steamships are the fastest means of travel. Across egypt and India, through Hong Kong, Japan and America he goes, encountering wonders along the way and braving many dangers. He meets a beautiful Indian princess and is pursued by a detective with a warrant for arrest...Can they keep Phileas Fogg from winning his bet?
4) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Mary Shelley's timeless and beloved gothic novel first published in the early 19th century returns with a freshly reimagined cover for a new generation of young readers! When ambitious young scientist Victor Frankenstein animates a humanoid figure he crafted from stolen corpses, he gets more than he bargained for. While his creation is brutish--large, strong, and horrifying to look at--it's also an intelligent, emotional, and eloquent creature who...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who comes to live on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Black Beauty is the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows Beauty's life and changing fortunes as he moves from owner to owner. As the horse encounters new experiences and new friends who reveal their own histories, the story quietly paints a fascinating portrait of how animals were treated during that era.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, who is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of ten-year-old Mary who, after the death of her parents, comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
NC 870L
Language
English
Description
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
The abridged adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
16) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abriged version of the novel in which a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
NC 1040L
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.
18) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale set in the spring of 1863 when, while engaged in the fierce battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
20) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Englishman Robinson Crusoe, who, after becoming the sole survivor of a 1659 shipwreck, lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.