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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The most beloved and oft-adapted work by Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows a love triangle in the New York countryside in 1790. Sleepy Hollow, a supposedly haunted glen on the outskirts of Tarry Town, is home to a particularly ghoulish fiend - the Headless Horseman - who is said to be the specter of a fallen soldier. Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with local hero Abraham 'Brom Bones' Van Brunt for the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When a boy and his mother search the belongings of a deceased sailor who owed them money they find a treasure map. An interested family friend outfits a ship to sail to the location on the map but discovers too late that half his crew is comprised of pirates.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Gulliver's Travels is renowned as a playful and comic children's classic. The book itself, rather than the bowdlerized versions that have been derived from it, is a savage, rude, and brilliant satire, timeless in its appeal and unerringly accurate. The images of Gullivar among the miniature Lilliputians and the giants of Brobdingnag, the crazy scientists, and the rational horses create a series of novel delights and challenging insights.
5) Dracula
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Harker is sent to see a client of his company in a distant part of Europe. The castle is deserted and the Count is a very strange host. But little does young Jonathan suspect that he and the people closest to him are about to be put into the worst danger and the most gruesome terror that anyone can imagine! Now they must track and destroy Dracula before he finds and destroys each of them!"--Book back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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With an all-new illustrations, experience this classic pioneering tale of science fiction by H.G. Wells.
West Sussex. A mysterious man in a long-sleeved trench coat, gloves, and a wide-brimmed hat arrives at Mr. and Mrs. Hall's inn. His face is almost entirely concealed (much like most of his personality and identity), except for a fake pink nose. He keeps to himself, working in his rooms during the day, only leaving at night.
Griffin's peculiar...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale in which a French professor and his companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine with a mad sea captain, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's beloved classic gets a charming easy-to-read version. Simply told and beautifully illustrated, it transports kids to the banks of the Mississippi and introduces them to Twain's irrepressible, irresistible hero. Whether clever Tom is fooling his friends into painting a fence for him or making mischief in school or at a birthday party, his antics will delight young readers.
10) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein is written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.
Shelley travelled through...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo, 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...
13) The time machine
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A classic novel of the future follows the Time Traveller as he hurtles one million years into the future and encounters a world populated by two distinct races, the childlike Eloi and the disgusting Morlocks who prey on the Eloi.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"The War of the Worlds (1898) conjures a terrifying, tentacled race of Martians who devastate the Earth and feed on their human victims while their voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet. The novel's hero is trapped in what is left of London, despairing at the destruction of human civilization, when he discovers that life on Earth is more resilient than he had imagined. Adapted by Orson Welles for his notorious 1938 radio...
15) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
16) Pinocchio
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Language
English
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Millions of people have fallen in love with Pinocchio, the classic story of a rambunctious puppet who longs to be a boy. His inspiring tale about the power of believing in dreams has enchanted families for generations. Now Jonathan -Taylor Thomas, Academy Award Winner Martin Landau and Jim Henson Creature Shop's magical special effects team up to bring this classic story to life.
17) The jungle book
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Language
English
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"The most popular of these tales center on Mowgli, a young boy who lives in the jungle amongst a community of animals. All before reaching his teenage years, he is brought up by wolves, trained by a bear, kidnapped by monkeys, and much more. This collection also features other classic stories..."
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Publisher
Audiolibros Colección
Edition
Unabridged
Language
Español
Description
Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster. With help from the world's greatest harpooner, the men discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine with a mysterious leader, Captain Nemo.
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