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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, at the U.S. Capitol Building to deliver a lecture, is drawn into a desperate search through the hidden tunnels and temples of Washington, D.C., when his mentor Peter Solomon, a prominent Mason and philanthropist, is kidnapped and the only clue to Solomon's whereabouts lies in an ancient invitation to a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.
10) Last words
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Provides autobiographical stories from comedian George Carlin in which he recounts personal experiences and reflects on his fifty-year career, along with biographical content from Carlin's friend Tony Hendra, to cover the entire span of his life, from birth until his death in 2008.
11) The help
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
12) The BFG
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
18) Fahrenheit 451
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Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions...
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Explores the life of Steve Martin, discussing his early stand-up career and how he walked away from it to become a writer for "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," his mentors and complex relationship with his parents and sister, and the work and dedication it took for him to become one of the world's greatest comedians.
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