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3) The idiot
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"The Idiot: Illustrated" is a classic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that delves into the complexities of human nature and societal norms. The story follows Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young nobleman known for his innocence, honesty, and compassion, who returns to Russia after spending several years in a Swiss sanatorium for treatment of his epilepsy.
As Prince Myshkin navigates the treacherous waters of St. Petersburg society, he encounters...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...
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Trials of Apollo volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor"--
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"Every twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Spurred by the commercial success of Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, these were not the serious-issue YA novels of the 1970s, nor were they the blockbuster books of the Harry Potter and Twilight ilk. They were cheap, short, and utterly beloved. Paperback crush...
7) Glass sword
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Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known -- and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow's blood is red -- the color of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In the fifth book in the series, Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and, in the sunshine of the old orchard among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon, the happy couple will be bound for a new life together in their own dream house on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor. But a new life means fresh problems to solve-and fresh surprises. As Anne and Gilbert begin to build that new life, some...
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A court of thorns and roses volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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Though Feyre now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, but as she navigates the feared Night Court's dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she might be key to stopping it.
10) Deep blue
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Waterfire saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Uncovering an ancient evil, Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas, to save their hidden world.
11) The time machine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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The first and greatest portrayal of time travel is printed with a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes.
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Anne of Green Gables volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to face new challenges teaching the Pringles and the others at Summerside High School.
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Hagenheim volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In this story loosely based on the Cinderella fairy tale, Gisela is determined to get an invitation to the ball being thrown for the duke's son, Valten, but meeting him may not lead to her happily-ever-after.
14) Hex Hall
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Hex Hall novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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After a prom-night spell goes badly wrong, witch Sophie Mercer is exiled to an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, supernaturally gifted teenagers, where she learns that an unknown predator has been attacking students.
15) A girl can dream
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EVERYONE IN HIGH SCHOOL WONDERED WHO WOULD WIN THE FREE FLYING LESSONS…'Tomboy' Loretta Larkin excels in sports, but privately envies her popular blonde high school classmate, Elsie Wynn. When the new local airport announces an essay contest with flying lessons as the tempting prize, Rette decides to enter-and wins! She finds that learning to solo can be a way to not-soloing the prom. Betty Cavanna writes of teenagers with sure understanding of...
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The action is set during World War I. While John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) is away from his plantation home in British East Africa, it is destroyed by invading German troops from Tanganyika. On his return he discovers among many burned bodies one that appears to be the corpse of his wife, Jane Porter Clayton. Another fatality is the Waziri warrior Wasimbu, left crucified by the Germans. (Wasimbu's father Muviro, first mentioned in this story,...
17) The cellar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet.
18) King's cage
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Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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With Mare powerless as a prisoner of Maven Calore, the boy she once loved, her rebel Reds continue to organize and train as they prepare for war, while exiled prince Cal sets out to rescue Maven from captivity.
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A court of thorns and roses volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever"--
20) The ambassadors
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The Ambassadors, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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