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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
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"This special edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate adventure is packed with thrilling action and stunning illustrations. Follow young Jim Hawkins as he boards the Hispanola and sets sail across the high seas in search of buried treasure. Danger lies ahead as he encounters mutiny, murder, shipwreck and the mysterious Long John Silver." --P. [4] of cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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Featuring a previously published author introduction, a personal foreword by his son, and a new introduction by his grandson, a definitive edition of the lauded World War I classic collects all thirty-nine of the author's alternate endings to offer new insights into his creative process. When a wounded American volunteer ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I falls in love with an English nurse they try to find some sanctuary in a world...
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Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this seventh installment, the story continues of the lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths of the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes.
7) The American
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1877 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"One of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring a new foreword by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko Jay Gatsby seemingly has everything. Everybody who's anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his West Egg, Long Island, mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing, and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby--young, handsome, fabulously rich--always seems...
10) Ethan Frome
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Set in New England, a farmer struggles to survive a bare existence, tethered to his farm, first by his helpless parents and then by a hypochondriac wife. Yet, when his wife's alluring cousin comes to stay, his dreams are rekindled.