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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Author Mark Kurlansky pleasantly surprised the world with this engaging best-seller that garnered rave reviews from critics and casual readers alike. His subject for this whimsical biography is the codfish, a species remarkable for its influence on humanity. Cod, Kurlansky argues, has driven economic, political, cultural and military thinking for centuries in the lands surrounding the Atlantic Ocean. Nations like England and Germany have waged wars...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"With a knack for trivia, Encyclopedia solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his detective agency. But his dad is also the chief of police, and every night, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most baffling crimes. Join Encyclopedia Brown as he solves ten confounding mysteries, including a case involving exciting martial arts, a stolen teapot shaped like a pig, and more. And with the clues given in each case, readers will have a chance to...
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""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores "what it means to be seen, to find someone...
7) 1984
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities
In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret...
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English
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Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home--in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this greatest of literary cities.
While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always...
While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
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Well-known works including fables, folklore, fiction, drama, and more, by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin, are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith
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Library of America volume 96
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Two original short stories, plus puzzles, interviews with characters, and other writings that unlock secrets of the Artemis Fowl books, which feature a twelve-year-old evil genius and his dealings with fairies and other magical beings
16) Square
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When his friend Circle asks him to do her portrait after praising him as a sculptor and genius, Square struggles to carve her likeness from a stone block.
18) Babbitt
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English
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Businessman George F. Babbitt loves the latest appliances, brand names, and the Republican Party. In fact, he loves being a solid citizen even more than he loves his wife. But Babbitt comes to resent the middle-class trappings he has worked so hard to acquire. Realizing that his life is devoid of meaning, he grows determined to transcend his trivial existence and search for greater purpose. Babbitt's quest for meaning forces him to ponder what it...
19) Resurrection
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Publisher
Thomas Y. Crowell Co
Pub. Date
c1911
Language
English
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Last novel by the great humanitarian Rusian writer.
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English
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How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of who we are?
That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well—or hardly at all. Like The Alchemist, The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think
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