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22) Moby-Dick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered by many readers to be the Great American Novel. But most don't know that since its appearance in 1851, it has been revised in substantial ways that alter its original meaning. Melville's masterpiece is described as a "fluid text": it exists in multiple versions, each revealing shifting intentions. The new Longman Critical Edition offers unprecedented access to the revisions that Melville made, the further...
23) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Victor Frankenstein leads an idyllic life in Switzerland with his family and friends until a thirst for knowledge sends him off in search of something that no human being has yet attained--the ability to create life. Victor's success soon proves that, through the work of his own hands, he and his family are destined to live a life of pain and suffering.
25) Jungle Book, the
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and other animals of the Indian jungle.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family --a minister, his wife, and four sons-- who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.
28) The Jungle Book
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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly to life. The most popular of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans portrays the inevitable conflict of opposed cultures and stands as a testament to the ways in which this struggle has been mythologized. Featuring the well-loved noble woodsman Natty Bumppo, or "Hawk-eye," Cooper's novel is a memorable...
32) Frankenstein
Author
Publisher
Baronet
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Obsessed university student Victor Frankenstein creates a being by reanimating the dead, but when it opens its eyes he flees, leaving behind a being that craves affection and acceptance, but is reviled instead. The creature, vowing revenge, pursues Victor to the ends of the earth.
33) Little women
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
36) The Wizard of Oz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join Dorothy Gale, Toto, and all of her friends as they explore the incredible land of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is American's most enduring fairy tale. From the moment Dorothy puts on the silver slippers (changed to ruby slippers by MGM to take advantage of their new advance in movie making: color) until the moment she clicks her heals and returns home to Kansas you will be swept away and captivated by her extraordinary story. This lavishing...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
39) Moby Dick
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod led by the fanatical captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible...
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