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1) Hans Brinker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A Dutch brother and sister work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.
3) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Orphaned Heidi is sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Alps, but soon grows to love the mountains. When she is taken to Frankfurt, her homesickness and a new friendship with a disabled girl called Clara lead to an extraordinary turn of events"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Imagine growing up among wolves, being friends with a panther and a bear, and hunting the most fearsome animal in the wild-the man-killing tiger Shere Khan. These are the stories of Mowgli ""the frog,"" a man-cub raised by wolves, and his journey to adulthood with the help of Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The Jungle Book is collections of short stories. Each story begins with a few lines of poetry. The best known of these jungle...
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Series
Publisher
Cumberland House Pub
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the post-Civil War South, young wife and mother Elsie Dinsmore Travilla is busy but content caring for her husband and five children, but conflict looms as the newly formed KKK begins to grow.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
While spending the holidays with her extended family in Rosebud, eight-year-old Elsie decides to listen to her faith and goes against the wishes of her father, causing tension between them and resulting in the young girl becoming ill.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 it was an overnight success, and set a precedent that was to be followed by other Christmas books, including The Chimes (1844) and The Cricket (1845). Each book was published at the same time of year, in the same format, and extolled similar values about the virtues of love, charity and the family unit. But none would achieve the cult status of A Christmas Carol, a book so popular it has become part...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
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