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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock. To this isolated island, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up carrying a dead man and a living baby. Isabel decides to keep this "gift from God".
2) Fever Crumb
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Wuthering Heights tells the story of a romance between two youngsters: Catherine Earnshaw and an orphan boy, Heathcliff. This tale of hauntings, passion and greed remains unsurpassed in its depiction of the dark side of love.With an Afterword by David PinchingDesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality...
4) Silas Marner
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
What is the value of human relations, the connection between souls? In Silas Marner, George Eliot explores this question in the story of a reclusive weaver in a small English town who learns to trade his love of gold for the love of those around him. Though he started life as a religious man, a heartbreaking betrayal drove Silas Marner to become a recluse whose only companions were his gold coins. But one day, his gold is stolen and a golden-haired...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When apprentice librarian Elisabeth is implicated in sabotage that released the library's most dangerous grimoire, she becomes entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy that could mean the end of everything.
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 1
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossam�nd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Found in the desert as a baby by monks who named him, thirteen-year-old Marcus, who has been confined to a wheelchair ever since he can remember, knows nothing of his background and endures the difficulties of his daily life in various foster homes and schools by dreaming of Farworld, a magical place whose pull seems to be getting increasingly stronger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
An abandoned orphan Gypsy boy Heathcliff is taken in by a well-to-do 19th century English family, the Earnshaws on the isolated moors. He becomes their stable boy and falls in love with the family's spoiled young daughter Catherine Earnshaw, his childhood friend. The beautiful Cathy is desperately in love with Heathcliff, but because of his low birth begins seeing a wealthy neighbor's son. Heathcliff leaves during a misunderstanding and with driving...
Author
Series
Tupelo Landing volume 4
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--