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1) 1984
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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A dictatorship called Big Brother rules the people in a collectivist society where Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston joins the underground where he becomes involved in a forbidden love affair.
2) War horse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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'Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkably pretty figure. Marianne was still handsomer. Her form, though not so correct as her sister's ... was more striking' As the title of Jane Austen's first published novel suggests, the difference between two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, lies not only in their appearance but also in their temperament. Yet Sense and Sensibility not only contrasts Elinor's good sense,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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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...
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Infernal devices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Gray's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
6) Jane Eyre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Following the death of her uncle, the orphan Jane Eyre is sent to the Lowood School, where she grows into a confident and well-educated young woman. When Jane leaves to become a governess at Thornfield Hall, she falls in love with Mr. Rochester, her pupil's guardian. But a series of eerie and terrifying events threatens to destroy her happy future. Featuring gripping plot twists and surprises, Jane Eyre offers rich insight into the life of a woman...
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Gemma Doyle trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
8) Rebel Angels
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Series
Gemma Doyle trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.
9) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense...
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Shades of London volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Rory, of B�nouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
11) How I live now
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Wendy Lamb Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
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Artemis Fowl series volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl's mind was wiped of memories of the world belowground and any goodness grudgingly learned is now gone, with the young genius reverting to his criminal lifestyle.
13) Private Peaceful
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.
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Series
Shades of London volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux is back in London to help solve a new string of inexplicable deaths plaguing the city"-- Provided by publisher.
16) Slated
Author
Series
Slated trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a future England, sixteen-year-old Kyla is one of the "slated," those whose memories have been erased usually because they have committed serious crimes, but as she observes more and more strange events, she also gains more memories which put her and her boyfriend, Ben in danger.
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Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.
18) Just in case
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old David Case realizes that Fate has put a target on his back after he saves his baby brother from the edge of a balcony. He assumes a new identity and becomes Justin Case, who ponders teenage philosophic questions and falls in love with an older girl, Agnes Day.
19) Darkside
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Starling's father is in an asylum and his home has been attacked when, while running away from kidnappers, he stumbles upon Darkside, a terrifying and hidden part of London ruled by the descendants of Jack the Ripper, where Jonathan is in mortal danger if he cannot find the way out.