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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are looking to adopt a boy to help out on their farm, so when the orphanage delivers a red-haired eleven-year-old girl named Anne instead, they are determined to fix the mistake. However, as Anne's vibrant character and vivid imagination brighten up their home, the Cuthberts soon realise Anne must stay at Green Gables. The inimitable Anne Shirley is fanciful, talkative and dramatic, and this novel describes her joyful...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
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English
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In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. She wants only Pamela. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. Then...
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Series
Initial insult volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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"Wuthering Heights tells us a story about the life in northern England between 1771 till 1783. The two main characters are Catherine Earnshaw and Hareton Earnshaw, who fall in love with each other when they are children but become separated when they are grown up. The book tells us also about the life of Heathcliff, a homeless boy who loved Catherine. It's seen as a representative work of the gothic novel genre, despite its troubling subject matter...
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Tommy Smyth, a high school junior and particle physics genius, goes missing, multiple lives intersect--or don't--as the residents of a small Texas town relate, in their separate voices, what each thinks might have happened to Tommy.