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1) Moby Dick
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A renewed interest in "Moby-Dick" in the early 20th century would help to establish it as an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance, firmly placing it amongst the greatest of all American novels. Based on the real life events depicted in the "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex" and the legend of "Mocha Dick", an albino sperm whale, whose killing is described in the May 1839 issue...
Author
Series
Publisher
SeaStar
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught. One day Mrs. Rabbit sent her children out to pick blackberries. She warned them to stay away from Mr. McGregor's garden.
3) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Olvier Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master crimminal, fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious stranger with a scar on his cheek dies, young Jim Hawkins ends up with a mysterious map of an island. He imagines that he is off to a wonderful sea adventure that will lead to a huge treasure. But once he sets sail with Dr. Livesey and the one-legged Long John Silver, the dream turns out to include greed, mutiny, and murder. - Back cover.
To help students experience the joys and benefits of reading, Townsend Press presents the Townsend...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Contains the full and unabridged text of Jack London's The call of the wild novel, set in the Klondike gold Rush of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, accompanied by an orientation to the story, a glossary of over 150 words, a location appendix, a character appendix, and a brief biography of London himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Spirited Elizabeth Bennet copes with the suit of the snobbish Mr. Darcy while trying to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane and scatterbrained Lydia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them, and many others, even in the next generation.
Author
Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Step into the Roaring Twenties with "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This iconic novel immerses you in the glitz and glamour of the Jazz Age, where mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby hosts extravagant parties in pursuit of lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the story unravels, revealing the dark underbelly of wealth and privilege. With lyrical prose, Fitzgerald explores the American Dream, love, and obsession. A...
Author
Publisher
Ægypan Press
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2000, c1853
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
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