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3) Moby Dick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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A famed elephant hunter embarks on a perilous African treasure hunt in this classic tale that launched the long-running Allan Quatermain series. Sir Henry Curtis's brother has disappeared into the uncharted African interior. Last seen by explorer and hunter Allan Quatermain, he was traveling toward the fabled King Solomon's diamond mines in search of his fortune. Now, Curtis and his friend, Capt. John Good, persuade Quatermain and a mysterious native...
7) Found money
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English
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Single mother Amy Parkens teams up with small-town physician Ryan Duffy in an attempt to discover the source of their unexpected financial windfalls.
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English
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction...
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Briony is free from the walls of Asperfell. But not from its strange and savage world. Lost in the frozen wilderness, Briony leads her friends ever northward, in search of a rumored cave wherein lies their only hope of returning home to the kingdom of Tiralaen with Prince Elyan, the rightful heir to the throne, to save her people from civil war. What she discovers instead is an impossible kingdom of opulence and decadence beyond her wildest imagining....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Dragon Masters are still reeling from the desertion of Rori and her fire dragon Vulcan, when Mina, a Dragon Master from the far north, arrives with a problem--King Lars needs a fire dragon to defeat the Ice Giant who has frozen his kingdom; and so the Dragon Masters set out to find Rori and convince her to help.
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Border trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
15) Framed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy have the chance to go on tour to promote their new candy and they each have very different reasons for hitting the road. The stakes are a lot higher than they thought, however, and a decades-old secret is revealed. The four friends embark on a journey full of hidden treasures, imaginary worlds, rivers of light, a map of awe, a sky of many colors, and one very small cat who thinks he's a dog.
18) Peak
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
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English
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Jazzman Lonnie Blake, still mourning the murder of his wife, offers refuge to Carol Dodson, a prostitute who begs him for help in evading a dangerous stalker, not realizing he has placed himself in the middle of an international effort by a drug firm to find and capture Carol's daughter, a child with amazing healing abilities.
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