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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 in the UK by Pearson's Magazine and in the US by Cosmopolitan magazine. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both...
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Samuel Clemens, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
3) Ashes, Ashes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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A thrilling tale of adventure, romance, and one girl's unyielding courage through the darkest of nightmares.
Epidemics, floods, droughts-for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park. But when she's rescued from a pack of hunting dogs by a mysterious...
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The first in a series of books about the Pepper family, these imaginative children's stories have delighted readers since their original publication in 1881. This first novel introduces Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and Phronsie, the children of their widowed Mamsie, Mrs. Pepper. While very poor, the Peppers live in a supportive little town in their beloved Little Brown House. The family faces many challenges, such as sickness and an overflowing generosity...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 20
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While attending a fancy party hosted by Duchess Strickland, a wealthy philanthropist who owns a priceless art collection, teenaged Nancy Drew finds a new mystery to investigate when the goddess statue disappears.
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The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde - "The Canterville Ghost" is a humorous (Horror) short story by Oscar Wilde♥. The story is about an American family who moved to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead English nobleman, who killed his wife and was then walled in and starved to death by his wife's brothers. It has been adapted for the stage and screen several times.
★Summary of the Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde★
"The Canterville Ghost"...
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It's senior year, and Whitney Richards is tired of the constant pressures to be perfect. When she gets a D in Calculus, her mother immediately hires a tutor, worried Whitney won't get into the "right" college-her alma mater-with imperfect grades. Her tutor, Taylor, is a quiet, mysterious boy who is unlike anyone Whitney has met before. But Taylor's rougher upbringing has her mother and friends discouraging any type of relationship.Tired of having...
11) Hidden pictures
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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In the sleepy town of Shady Oaks, Nancy Drew and her friends investigate an exhibit of photographs, rumored to be cursed, and their connection to the disappearance of two people.
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Boxcar children volume 37
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IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging their dig.
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Adventurers Guild volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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"In the second book of The Adventurers Guild, Zed and Brock must save the elven city"-- Provided by publisher.
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First published in 1903, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" is the charming and classic children's novel beloved the world over. Written by the American author and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, it is the story of young and poor Rebecca Rowena Randall, who goes to live with her spinster aunts in the town of Riverboro when she is ten years-old. Rebecca's father had died three years before and the family farm had become heavily indebted. In order to ease the...
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Boxcar children volume Prequel
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during ablizzard.
16) Surprise Island
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After the Boxcar Children move in with their grandfather, they spend the summer having adventures on a private island.
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Boxcar children volume 63
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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At the request of their distant relative Althea, the Boxcar Children arrive at her old Virginia mansion and investigate the mysterious incidents happening there.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Basil leads an expedition up a towering Swiss mountain in search of a colony of mice who have been missing for centuries, but before he can solve the mystery he must confront a mysterious snow mouse and evil Professor Ratigan.
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