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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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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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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...
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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,...
9) 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.
10) Robinson Crusoe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a...
15) 1984: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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Depicts life in a totalitarian regime in the year of 1984.
16) Mystic river
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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The New York Times bestselling novel from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their...
18) Middlemarch
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English
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A portrait of 19th century English provincial life focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist " Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." -- Washington Post Book World New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president,...
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