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1) Beloved
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
2) Atonement
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, achildhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 349
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Description
Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about...
4) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength.
6) Catch-22
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.
8) 1984
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Series
Recorded Books classics library
Everyman's library volume 134
Signet classic volume CE 1626
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Everyman's library volume 134
Signet classic volume CE 1626
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
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...
9) The Aeneid
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Language
English
Description
"This new translation brings Virgil's masterpiece newly to life for English-language readers. It's the first in centuries crafted by a translator who is first and foremost a poet, and it is a glorious thing. David Ferry has long been known as perhaps our greatest contemporary translator of Latin poetry, his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics having established themselves as much-admired standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius,...
10) Bleak House
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
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Description
Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 281
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1280L
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...
12) Women in love
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Series
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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One of Lawrence's most popular novels, this fascinating and disturbing sequel to The Rainbow depicts the emotional life of the Brangwen sisters. Set just after World War I, this prophetic masterpiece is filled with perceptions about sexual powers and sexual obsession now held to be timeless and true.
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Series
Lexile measure
1230L
Language
English
Description
In this book, the author depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century. The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevent her from becoming one of the many women who succeed in those circumstances. Though her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Death Comes For The Archbishop shares a limitless, craggy beauty with the New Mexico landscape of desert, mountain, and canyon in which its central action takes place, and its evocations of that landscape suggest why Willa Cather is acknowledged without question as the most poetically exact chronicler of the American frontier. Told with a directness that overlays its profound artistry, this story of the nineteenth century missionary priest Father...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 150
Signet classic volume CT304
Recorded Books classics library
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Signet classic volume CT304
Recorded Books classics library
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm, a wholly democratic society built on the credo that all animals are created equal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
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Adventures in Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer's school for boys; a place of light, warmth, comfort, and delights; where self-knowledge and self-control are acquired along with book learning.
18) Walden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
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Description
Presents Thoreau's reflections on his experiences living alone in the woods surrounding Walden Pond and his philosophy concerning humankind's need to reevaluate life and commune with nature.
19) Moll Flanders
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 837
Lexile measure
1390L
Language
English
Description
The candid adventures of the 17th century English harlot whose life ended with her penitence.
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Series
Lexile measure
1310L
Language
English
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An edited and abridged version of Alexis de Tocqueville's study of the United States, written in 1831 when the democracy was still young, encompassing the history, geography, politics, legal system, economy, and culture of America, and addressing issues such as a free press and racism that are still pertinent in the twenty-first century.
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