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1) Lad, a dog
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Recounts the heroic and adventurous life of a thoroughbred collie who was devoted to his Sunnybank Master and Mistress.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Dorothy's aunt and uncle get acquainted with Oz after they lose their farm and Ozma invites them to live with her.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 9
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The adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill take them to Oz where they help solve the problem of Pom, whose truelove's heart has been turned to ice by witches.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
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When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 8
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Introduces Ann Soforth, Queen of Oogaboo, whom Tik-Tok, the clockwork man, assists in conquering the Nome King.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
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A boy, a patchwork girl, and a glass cat go on a mission to find the ingredients for a charm which will transform some people turned to marble.
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With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaires masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that "all is for the best" even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
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A "Positively Diabolical" Correspondence "My dear Wormwood,..." So begins this product of C.S. Lewis's wickedly funny imagination, a correspondence between two devils, Screwtape and his young nephew, Wormwood. As the senior fiend advises his young apprentice in leading humanity astray, Lewis delves into questions about good and evil, temptation, repentance, and grace, offering knowledge and guidance to all who are trying to live good Christian lives....
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Chocolate War volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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A high school freshman discovers the devestating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
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During a California earthquake Dorothy falls into the underground Land of the Manaboos where she again meets the Wizard of Oz.
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Chronicles of Avonlea volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Twelve tales of some very special people living on Prince Edward Island in the early days of the 20th century.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. 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...
15) Ozma of Oz
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Dorothy Gale, swept by a raging sea storm into the fairy land of Ev, sets off on a magic carpet with an assortment of old friends and new, to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children from the wicked Nome King, who has turned Princess Ozma into an emerald grasshopper.
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Chronicles of Avonlea volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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More stories set in the hills near Green Gables, including a girl who risks losing her mother to find her father and a foolish lie threatens to make a spinster the town's laughingstock.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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"Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass Sea Snail who holds the key to the greatest mystery of all."--Cover.
19) A doll's house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
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One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, displaying Ibsen’s genius for realistic prose drama. A classic expression of women’s rights, the play builds to a climax in which the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll’s house."
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The final novel by Charles Dickens, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was unfinished at the time of his death in 1870. The novel revolves around John Jasper, choirmaster and opium addict, who is the guardian of his orphaned nephew Edwin Drood. Before the death of his parents, Edwin was promised to marry Rosa Bud, another orphan, but their affections have cooled upon reaching adulthood. Rosa has also attracted the affections of Jasper, her teacher, as...