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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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First published in 1886, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is author Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of man's inner struggle between good and evil. The novella revolves around the investigation by London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson, concerning the association between his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and the evil, morally corrupt Edward Hyde, to whom Jekyll has recently willed his estate.
Through the use of a magic potion, Dr. Jekyll, who nurtured a belief...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Phantom of the Opera (1910) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. Originally serialized in Le Galois, the novel was inspired by legends revolving around the Paris Opera from the early nineteenth century. Originally, a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Despite its lack of success relative to Leroux's other novels, The Phantom of the Opera has become legendary through several...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Romeo and Juliet", one of William Shakespeare's most iconic tragedies, tells the poignant tale of young love and family conflict. Set in Verona, Italy, the story revolves around the passionate romance between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, members of feuding families.
The star-crossed lovers meet at a masquerade ball and quickly fall deeply in love, despite their families' bitter rivalry. Their secret relationship leads to a series of events...
10) Peter Pan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An illustrated edition of the classic story in which the three Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, travel to Neverland where they share great adventures with Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up.
11) Moby Dick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This story begins at an observatory in England where the narrator witnesses explosions on Mars. This event is followed by what is thought to be a meteor landing not far from the observatory. Once the narrator travels to the spot of the meteor landing he discovers it is actually a cylinder and the cylinder contains Martians. The story chronicles the Martian attacks throughout many parts of England, even devastating London and the narrator escapes with...
13) Robin Hood
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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King Richard is away, and Prince John has stolen his throne! Prince John has set high taxes on the people of Sherwood Forest and many cannot pay. But they have a hero among them who steals from the rich to help the poor. Will Robin Hood and his merry men save the kingdom for King Richard? Find out in this stunning graphic novel adaptation of Howard Pyle's classic by Joe Dunn Creator biographies and a glossary help reluctant readers take the first...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, H.G. Wells, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
15) White Fang
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"White Fang" by Jack London is a riveting tale of the wild, set in the Yukon Territory during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. This novel, a companion to London's famous "The Call of the Wild", inversely explores the world from the perspective of a wolf-dog mix named White Fang.
Born in the wild but gradually brought into the world of humans, White Fang's journey is one of survival, adaptation, and the struggle between his wild instincts and the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic....
18) The time machine
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Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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H. G. Wells's classic novel "The Time Machine" written in graphic novel format about a man who is able to travel back and forth in time.
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Graphic classics volume 18
Publisher
Eureka Productions
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Presents graphic novel adaptations of seven stories, poems, and fairy tales by Louisa May Alcott.
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This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Princess and the Pea', first published in May of 1835. This classic fairy tale has been continuously in print in different editions since its first publication, with many, many, different artists illustrating the story over the years. This edition features a beautiful collection of the best of that art, taken from the likes of Arthur Rackham, W. Heath Robinson,...
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