Pablo Marcos Studio
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overview: Alexandre Dumas's novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery - one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written - appears here in a newly revised translation. "This novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress the Chateau d'If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When David Copperfield's widowed mother remarries, David suffers from his stepfather's abuse. At age 8, David is sent away to a harsh school where the principal routinely beats the students. David's circumstances become even worse when he is removed from school and, at age 10, forced to labor from morning to night in a London warehouse. David then decides to take desperate action. He will run away to his great-aunt, who lives in Dover. Having never...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the adventures and exploits of King Arthur and his knights at the court of Camelot and elsewhere in the land of the Britons.
Passion and Pageantry! With King Arthur at the head of the Round Table, the most gallant men of the realm fought to bring peace, to perform outstanding deeds of strength and bravery, to win honor. It is also a time of magic, of evil and witchcraft. From the time the young Arthur pulls the fabled sword from...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Almost everyone has dreamed of being cast away on a desert island. In this famous adventure story, the Robinson family is shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful birds, fragrant flowers, and rare animals. When a ship sails into view, they have to decide whether they want to go home.
10) Moby Dick
Author
Publisher
Baronet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
11) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
AD 1000L
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical backround of the story.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
It's a lazy Mississippi River town, a place where a boy can learn magical cures for warts, turn a fence-painting job into a leisurely con game, get lost in a cave, escape to an island, or attend his own funeral. It's a time when hooky is punished with a simple swatting and pockets bulge with firecrackers and dead rats; a time...
16) The Oregon Trail
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Professor Aronnax sets off in search of a giant sea monster, only to find the monster is really a steel-plated submarine. Captured by the mysterious Captain Nemo, Aronnax witnesses the exploration of the Nautilus, the remarkable submarine Nemo has invented. But Aronnax comes to learn that Nemo is near insanity and must escape. It's an incredible journey into a mysterious world of excitement and danger!"--Page [4] of cover.
20) Heidi
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion for an invalid.