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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Ebenezer Scrooge is a penny-pinching, mean, old miser. He treats his family and employee poorly, and, in turn, is not a well-liked man. He especially does not like Christmas! But, one fateful Christmas Eve, he is visited by three ghosts that change his life forever!" -- Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, as he tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz, Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion, who accompany her to the Emerald City to look for a wizard who can help Dorothy return home to Kansas.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorized by aliens in tall, armored capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson tells how he was plunged into a paralyzing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. The domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end when he is stolen away from his master and put to work as a sled dog in Alaska. His once life of luxury turns into a life of survival...
10) The time machine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first and greatest portrayal of time travel is printed with a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Resonant with themes of love, loneliness, and death, the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe continues to appeal to modern readers more than 150 years after his death. This edition of The Raven and Other Poems is the work of a master, and includes "The Raven," "Lenore," "Annabel Lee." One of the best-known American writers, Edgar Allan Poe's poetry influenced the American Romantic and French Symbolist movements in the nineteenth century.
HarperPerennial...
13) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
15) Nutcracker
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps break the spell and changes him into a handsome prince.
17) King Arthur
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In the center of the courtyard of a medieval church stands a single block of marble. On top of the marble lies a heavy black anvil. Struck deep through them both is a glittering sword. Whoever can remove the sword from the stone is the rightful king of Britain ..."
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Every night, when the rest of the castle has gone to bed, Princess Jessamine and her sisters descend a hidden staircase to an enchanted kingdom where they dance through the night--and right through their shoes! Their father promises that whoever can reveal the princesses' secret may ask one of them to be his wife.
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