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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the savage, tormented foundling Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. A book of great power and strength, it is filled with the raw beauty of the moors and an uncanny understanding of the terrible truths about men and women. It is an understanding made even more extraordinary by the fact that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas or A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fearon Publishers
Pub. Date
[1967]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An easy reading version of the adventure story of the French and Indian War, in which Hawkeye and his two friends, the last of the Mohican braves, struggle against the evil Huron, Uncan, to protect two English girls and their escorts.
Author
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
"A bloody feud. A tangled love. A senseless tragedy that brings two families to their knees. After a chance meeting at a ball, young Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall desperately in love. But their families are locked in a bitter rivalry, their love forbidden. When blood is spilled and Romeo is banished, Juliet is forced to take desperate measures that spell tragedy for the star-crossed lovers." -- back cover.
"After a chance meeting at a ball,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Globe Fearon
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describing both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.