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Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Banned/Challenged Books
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
Summer Blockbusters - Books that Became Movies
Description
In a thought-provoking coming-of-age novel, Charlie struggles to cope with complex world of high school as he deals with the confusions of sex and love, the temptations of drugs, and the pain of losing a close friend and a favorite aunt.
Author
Language
English
Description
In a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, the decisions of a few industrial leaders shake the roots of capitalism and reawaken man's awareness of himself as a heroic being.
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Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lucy and Edmond, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the magic land of Narnia, where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
7) Babbitt
Author
Language
English
Description
Personal crisis jars a middle-aged real estate agent from his complacency in this satire of middle-class American life. Sinclair Lewis' great novel offers a scathing portrait of the consequences of clinging to conventional values.
8) Jane Eyre
Author
Language
English
Description
A young woman looks back at her childhood in a harsh orphanage and describes her growing love for the man who employs her as governess.
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
10) I, robot
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart.
“A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian
I, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever changed the world’s perception of...
“A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian
I, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever changed the world’s perception of...
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Series
Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
12) Charlotte's web
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
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Series
Ramona Quimby volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Newbery Award winner Beverly Cleary delivers a humorous portrayal of the ups and downs of sisterhood. Both the younger and older siblings of the family will enjoy this book.
Having a little sister like four-year-old Ramona isn't always easy for Beezus Quimby. With a wild imagination, disregard for order, and an appetite for chaos, Ramona makes it hard for Beezus to be the responsible older sister she knows she ought to be...especially
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Language
English
Description
A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own powers make him a type of messiah figure among humans.
15) Peter Pan
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Darling children have adventures in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
16) Little women
Author
Series
Little Women series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
17) Don Quixote
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.2 - AR Pts: 91
Language
English
Description
A definitive English translation of the sixteenth-century classic follows the adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through Spain and become subject to the noble knight-errant's fanciful imagination.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning novel is now a new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar...
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar...
20) Doctor Zhivago
Author
Language
English
Description
A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning epic banned in the Soviet Union until 1988 traces the interpersonal challenges of a poet and physician during the Russian Revolution, in an edition that seeks to restore Paternak's original rhythms, tone and precision.
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