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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors. On Christmas Eve Scrooge sits in his counting-house with not a kind word for a soul, just wanting to be left alone until the 'humbug' of Christmas is over. Four ghostly visitors (his partner Marley, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come) show him the error of his ways. By the time Christmas...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
"Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, who is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
7) Rebel angels
Author
Series
Gemma Doyle trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.
Author
Publisher
Magic Carpet Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1817 in England, two young cousins, Cecilia living in the country and Kate in London, write letters to keep each other informed of their exploits, which take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted by evil wizards.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In the early 1800s, in a remote corner of England with almost no eligible young men, the eight students at the Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to become a good wife.
Author
Series
Gemma Doyle trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Loki and Amora cause the destruction of one of Asgard's most prized possessions, Amora is banished to Earth, where her powers will slowly and excruciatingly fade to nothing. She was the only person who ever looked at Loki's magic as a gift instead of a threat; without her, he slips further into anguish and the shadow of his universally adored brother, Thor. When Asgardian magic is detected in relation to a string of murders on Earth, Odin sends...
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Series
Publisher
Molino, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Pursued by her much older brother, famed detective Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola, disguised and using false names, attempts to solve the kidnapping of a baronet's sixteen-year-old daughter in nineteenth-century London.
"Sherlock Holmes, el detective más famoso del mundo, está removiendo cielo y tierra para encontrar a su hermana pequeña Enola, quien parece haber sido engullida por la ciudad más grande y oscura del mundo: Londres. Mientras...
14) Oliver Twist
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Series
Publisher
Campfire
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Retells in graphic novel format Dickens' story of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
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Series
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes's younger sister and self-declared finder of lost persons and things, is determined to find her friend, Lady Cecily, a confused young Baronet's daughter on the run from her father's devious schemes.
16) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"An orphan living on the dangerous London streets, Oliver has no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape" -- Amazon.com
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