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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Alice's adventures begin as she lies on a grassy bank one sunny afternoon. After following the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole she meets all kinds of strange and wonderful characters. She talks with the Cheshire Cat, swims with the Mouse, takes tea with the Mad Hatter and plays croquet with the Queen.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
"An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo." *** "The voyage of the 'Nautilus' permitted Verne to describe the wonders of an undersea world almost totally unknown to the general public of the period. Indebted to literary tradition for his Atlantis, he made his major innovation in having the submarine completely powered by electricity, although the interest in electrical forces goes back to Poe...
3) Kidnapped
Author
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
NC 1100L
Language
English
Description
For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
"When Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, decide to adopt a child from a distant orphanage, they don't get quite what they bargained for. The child who awaits them at the tiny Bright River train station is not the strapping young boy they'd imagined--someone to help Matthew work the fields of their small farm--but rather a freckle-faced, redheaded girl named Anne (with an e, if you please). Matthew and Marilla may not be sure about Anne, but...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
It's a lazy Mississippi River town, a place where a boy can learn magical cures for warts, turn a fence-painting job into a leisurely con game, get lost in a cave, escape to an island, or attend his own funeral. It's a time when hooky is punished with a simple swatting and pockets bulge with firecrackers and dead rats; a time...
7) Little women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
Description
For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Appears on list
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',...
10) The time machine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
A classic novel of the future follows the Time Traveller as he hurtles one million years into the future and encounters a world populated by two distinct races, the childlike Eloi and the disgusting Morlocks who prey on the Eloi.
11) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
13) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
A simple retelling of the story of Robinson Crusoe, who was shipwrecked and spent years alone on an island.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Poor Beauty! Her family has lost its fortune, her sisters are snobby and cruel, and her father just angered a hideous beast, a beast who wants to marry her! Now Beauty must live with the beast in an enchanted castle, far from everyone she knows.
15) Heidi
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the Swiss Alps to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
16) The nutcracker
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps break the spell and changes him into a handsome prince.
18) The jungle book
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, the "man-cub," abandoned as a baby by his parents and raised by the wolves in the wilds of the jungle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Every night, when the rest of the castle has gone to bed, Princess Jessamine and her sisters descend a hidden staircase to an enchanted kingdom where they dance through the night--and right through their shoes! Their father promises that whoever can reveal the princesses' secret may ask one of them to be his wife.