Pablo Marcos
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.5 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
NC 1300L
Language
English
Description
Gulliver's strange adventures in some of the most unusual lands ever imagined have made this one of the rare classics with an enduring and wide-ranging appeal to all ages. Gulliver's bad luck at sea not only gets him shipwrecked and castaway, but repeatedly throws him into strange societies of even stranger people. Readers are likely aware of Gulliver's experiences in Lilliput, where he meets a kingdom of six-inch-tall people with a set of prejudices...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. The foolish school teacher, Ichabod Crane, is besotted with the lovely Katrina Van Tassel. Surely there can be nothing to stand in the way of his designs on her fortune. Sadly for him, imagination is a dangerous thing in Sleepy Hollow, and Katrina is in the sights of another who claims to have bettered...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone. The stranger--a brilliant scientist--has uncovered the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Adaptations of two famous stories by Irving: The first of Ichabod Crane and his encounter with the headless horseman, and the second about Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep and awakened twenty years later.
7) Babe Ruth
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and career of Babe Ruth, discussing his troubled youth and the baseball prowess that led him to world-wide fame.
8) Dracula
Author
Series
Great illustrated classics volume G224-51
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
9) Daniel Boone
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"... From his earliest years, Daniel always looked west. For him, the land meant adventure and opportunity. Blazing trails, establishing settlements, and fighting for freedom, he made his way west with his family, building America as he went. Join Daniel on his spectacular journey across the wide, wild land he explored and settled for all of us"--from p. [4] of cover.
12) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young English woman who accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An elephant hunter's chronicle of his safari into the interior of South Africa to search for a fabled diamond mine and to rescue the brother of the English gentleman who accompanies him across the deserts and mountains.
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Acrobatic adventures by some of yesteryear's top names! Is she heroine, criminal or both? What motivates her madcap mischief? That's for the Black Cat to know and Spider-Man to find out in his first fights with one his most famous femme fatales! Collecting the first six appearances of the Black Cat from Amazing Spider-Man issues 194, 195, 204, 205, 226, and 227.