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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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Jane Austen's classic comedy of manners is one of the most enduring love stories in English literature In a remote Hertfordshire village in the early nineteenth century, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have a problem. Or rather, five vivacious, headstrong problems: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia. Mr. Bennet loves his daughters dearly, but spends more time with his nose buried in a book than planning for their futures. Since her husband's property...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" ( Publishers Weekly ). In an elegant hÃt́el particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible--short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she's everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois...
7) Dubliners
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Presents James Joyce's vignettes of Irish life in fifteen stories on Dublin.
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Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The New York Times #1 bestselling book by Pastor Rick Warren that helps you understand the purpose of your life. As one of the best-selling nonfiction books in history, with more than 34 million copies sold, and more than 70 translations available, The Purpose Driven Life is far more than just a book; it's the roadmap for your spiritual journey. A journey that will transform your life. Movie stars and political leaders aren't the only ones turning...
10) The great Gatsby
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm, and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
13) The Odyssey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.
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English
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The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture,...
16) Anna Karenina
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English
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A woman of fine nature forsakes her husband for a lover, and after a bitter experience commits suicide.
17) Love Overboard
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English
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She's been called side-splittingly funny" ( Publishers Weekly ), "a blast of fresh air" ( Washington Post ), and "a winner" ( Glamour ). She is, of course, Janet Evanovich, the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum mystery series. Now available for the first time in more than a decade comes Love Overboard , the hilarious story of a sinfully handsome schooner captain and the spirited woman who agrees to work on his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Crichton's ultimate adventure." -- San Francisco Chronicle " Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action ... .A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure." -- USA Today "Riveting ... .Great entertainment ... .The pages and minutes fly by." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer #1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton ("One of the great storytellers of our age" -- Newsday ) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible...
19) Sheep on a ship
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Sheep on a deep-sea voyage run into trouble when it storms and are glad to come paddling into port.
20) Emma
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English
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Emma Woodhouse's charitable intentions toward others are increasingly undermined by her supreme narcissism. Bent on improving the looks, manners, and marital prospects of the parentless Harriet Smith, a young boarder at a neighborhood school, Emma must suffer through a series of mortifying misunderstandings before she learns to stop meddling in the lives of others.
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