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Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. The work was Forster's first novel, and its success helped launch his lengthy and critically acclaimed career as a writer of literary fiction. Where Angels Fear to Tread, the title is drawn from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711), is a moving meditation on class, gender, social convention, and the grieving process.
Following the death of her husband, a widow named...
2) I was a rat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.
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Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's ill parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.
5) Funny Frank
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Gertie the hen is appalled when her son Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife, make him a special outfit so that his dream can come true."--
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Adrian Mole (Young adult) volume 1
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
1982.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
Follows the ups and downs of one British teenager's life in diary form.
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Bridget Jones volume 1
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English
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Hilarious chronicle of the life of a 30-something woman who wants to lose weight, stop smoking, develop inner poise, and form a functional relationship with a responsible adult.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Jack's Grandpa wears his slippers to the supermarket serves up Spam à la Custard for dinner and often doesn't remember Jack's name But he can still take to the skies in a speeding Spitfire and save the day An exquisite portrait of the bond between a small boy and his beloved Grandpa this book takes readers on an incredible journey with Spitfires over London and Great Escapes through the city in a high octane adventure full of comedy and heart. Illustrated...
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English
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Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:Secrets from her mother: Sammy the goldfish in my parents' kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.Secrets from her boyfriend: I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.From her colleagues:When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Miss Penelope Lumley assuages the disappointments of her sixteenth birthday by accepting an invitation to speak at her former school, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, which will be closed if she cannot prove the academic progress of her incorrigible charges.
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Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.
14) The Bolds
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The Bolds volume 1
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Two hyenas from Africa find a pair of passports (memo: do not go swimming in a crocodile pool), and move to Teddington, England, where they live suburban lives, hold jobs, and raise their children to hide their tails and act human--the only trouble is old Mr. McNumpty, their nosy neighbor, who is hiding a secret of his own.
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Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Teenaged Georgia continues her diary entries as she searches for the perfect boyfriend among the sexy Italian Masimo, the fun-loving Dave, and her ex-love Robbie.
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Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 5
Publisher
HarperTempest
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he'll do anything to avoid his empty house. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she's battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like...