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Great books of the Western world volume 37
Everyman's library volume no. 28
Modern Library college editions volume T15
Everyman's library volume no. 28
Modern Library college editions volume T15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.8 - AR Pts: 82
Language
English
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Fielding's classic novel chronicles the adventures of Tom Jones, who was abandoned as an infant and grows into a lusty, imprudent young man. Promising to mend his ways, Tom competes with an abusive rival for the affections of a wealthy squire's daughter, and eventually learns the truth about his identity.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
NC 1140L
Language
English
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Deep in the pages of the Jungle Book romps a boy raised by wolves, a mongoose who raises up against a deadly cobra, & a young seal who raises the question: What's out there in the great wide world? Rudyard Kipling's enduring collection of adventurous tales are written with warmth, wit, & a gentle wisdom for readers of all ages.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything." As the consequent drama unfolds, Edith Wharton's sharp ironic wit...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Presents A. A. Milne's 1926 classic--complete with Ernest H. Shepard's original illustrations--in which a small boy named Christopher Robin embarks on a series of adventures with Piglet, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl, and the roly-poly Winnie-the-Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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"On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Baumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under...
7) Walden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
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Presents Thoreau's reflections on his experiences living alone in the woods surrounding Walden Pond and his philosophy concerning humankind's need to reevaluate life and commune with nature.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 74
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A translation of nineteenth-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel in which the four sons of Fyodor Karamazov, a man of immoral character, must contend with a criminal investigation and with their own inner questions about justice and the existence of God after they are involved in their father's murder.
10) Doctor Zhivago
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 36
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"Boris Pasternak's Widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky, the award-winning translators of war and Peace and Anna karenina, and to whom. The New York Review of Books declared. "the English-speaking world is indebted."" "First published in Italy in 1957 amid internatrional controversy--the novel was banned in the Soviet Union Until 1988. and Pasternak declined the...