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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a...
2) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Retells the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"When Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, decide to adopt a child from a distant orphanage, they don't get quite what they bargained for. The child who awaits them at the tiny Bright River train station is not the strapping young boy they'd imagined--someone to help Matthew work the fields of their small farm--but rather a freckle-faced, redheaded girl named Anne (with an e, if you please). Matthew and Marilla may not be sure about Anne, but...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious old sailor comes to stay at the Admiral Benbow Inn, the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, is set on course for a thrilling adventure. The old man soon ends up dead, and among his possessions Jim discovers a map leading to buried treasure. Before long, Jim is setting sail to find it - but pirates are lurking in the ship's crew, and the notorious Long John Silver is planning a mutiny... Frequently adapted and dramatised, Treasure Island...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
11) Peter Pan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a starry night, Peter Pan and his fairy friend Tinker Bell fly with the three Darling children to Neverland, a magical place filled with mermaids, magic, and mischief. But Captain Hook and his band of pirates lurk nearby, plotting revenge against Peter and his band of lost boys.
12) The Westing game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
14) Homer Price
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage.
15) Gentle Ben
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Traces the friendship between a boy and a bear in the rugged Alaskan Territory.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Anne leaves home to go to college in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, and finds her life expanding in many different ways, including a marriage proposal, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson.
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