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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
First published in 1958, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.
Author
Series
Warriors the new prophecy volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
The warrior cat Fireheart's determination to uncover the truth about another warrior's death leads him deep into danger, and reveals secrets that test the strength of clan loyalties.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
5) Mulan
Language
English
Description
When Mulan's aging father is drafted into the Imperial army to fight the invading Hun army, she disguises herself as a soldier and takes his place. Mulan's hilarious guardian dragon and lucky cricket are not enough to help her defeat the ruthless Hun leader; only by staying true to herself will she bring victory to her country and honor to her family.
Author
Language
English
Description
When her father, Petros, falls victim to a hit-and-run accident and is brutally injured, Dr. Thea Sperelakis struggles to assemble the facts regarding the accident, soon suspecting an attempt at homicide. Her father, serving as the only witness to the scene, must communicate to Thea through eye blinks, and what he reveals is horrifying.
8) Use of force
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard. Days later, a body washes ashore. Identified as a high value terrorism suspect (who had disappeared three years prior), his name sends panic through the Central Intelligence Agency. Where was he headed? What was he planning? And could he be connected to the "spectacular attack" they have been fearing all summer? In a race against time, the...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lethal cyborg, the T-1000, has been sent back from 2029 A.D. to present day Los Angeles on a mission to kill the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. The original terminator cyborg is reprogrammed and sent to save the boy, assisted by the boy's mother, a woman warrior whose warnings of a world headed toward nuclear disaster go unheeded. (156 min.).
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss, and the power of things unseen, based on the award-winning novel by Ian McEwan and adapted by Stephen Butchard. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1230L
Language
English
Description
Meet the boggarts, changelings, pixies, goblins and other creatures of Arthur Spiderwick's magical, fantastical world. From clever and informative introductory sections explaining essential preparations for your own faerie investigations and faerie world basics, to 6 exhaustive sections featuring 31 fabulous faerie species, to an addendum created by Jared Grace, the long-awaited companion to the Spiderwick Chronicles is sure to please any fan of the...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comedy about the greatest love story almost never told. When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before. There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else, she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production.
14) The last song
Language
English
Description
Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In Love at first sprite, Jasmine, Aladdin, and Carpet soar into the sky where they meet tiny creatures called "Sprites." But when these new friends want them to stay forever, it takes an old friend to help them out. In The dinner dance, Dopey wants to help Snow White fix a wonderful dinner for the warfs, but since he can't talk, things get a little mixed up. In Ariel's treasures, Ariel and her friends must save their kingdom when an evil spell causes...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Kind, quiet Tannie Maria isn't a woman who draws much notice. She leads a solitary life, writing recipes for the local gazette, cooking with ingredients from her garden, and chatting with her pet chicken, Morag. When Maria becomes the newspaper's advice columnist, she peppers her responses with delectable recipes to help people fix their problems. But after a woman who wrote to her turns up dead, Maria and her colleague, rookie journalist Jessie,...
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