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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"The Little Prince" is French aviator Antonine de Saint-Exupery's most famous novella. The story, first published in 1943, is about a pilot who must make an emergency landing in the desert becaouse of engine problems. This is ironic, since the author himself took off in a plane over the Mediterranean just a year later and was never seen or heard from again. This timeless story has been adapted to various media over the decades, including stage, screen...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
The Ramsay family and the one summer spent with their friends in their holiday home in Scotland. Offshore stands the lighthouse; remote, inaccessible, and an external presence in a changing world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc
Pub. Date
[1956]
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Gordon Comstock refuses to be corrupted by the world around him and chooses a low paying job and a life of poverty over prosperity and family responsibilities; however, the more he struggles against the money god, the more he realizes that it is a futile journey.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"A repackaged edition of the revered author's retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche -- what he and many others regard as his best novel. C. S. Lewis -- the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics -- brilliantly reimagines the story of Cupid and Psyche. Told from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1965]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Set in Porter's native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, these are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
The narrator recalls the Finzi-Continis, a wealthy cultured Italian Jewish family whose daughter he loved and whose son was his friend. The assimilation of the Jews into Italian society is abruptly halted by fascism, and anti-Semitism destroys the family.
11) Invisible cities
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1978.
Lexile measure
1290L
Language
English