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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely...
2) The Stranger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
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Serie Harry Potter volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
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During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
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This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714,the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel...
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Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place. Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 48
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Las tediosas vacaciones de verano en la casa de los tíos de Harry todavía no han acabado cuando Harry presiente que algo extraño está sucediento en academia Hogwarts. Cuando por fin comienza otro curso en el famoso colegio de magia y hechicería, sus temores vuelven realidad.
As Harry faces his upcoming fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, there are increasing rumors of dark times coming and of Lord Voldemort's return to power, and a secret anti-Voldemort...
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La isla del tesoro (Treasure Island) es una novela de aventuras escrita por el escocés Robert Louis Stevenson, publicada en libro en Londres en 1883 (publicada originalmente por entregas en la revista infantil Young Folks, entre 1881 y 1882 con el título de The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island).Esta obra ha sido fuente de inspiración en el cine, en la televisión, en la literatura, en cómics e incluso en videojuegos. La novela adopta un tono crítico...
11) Daniel's pet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A young boy takes good care of his pet chicken, and when she is grown up she gives him a surprise.
12) The plague
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
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Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
13) La metamorfosis
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Cls̀icos volume 15
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c2010
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Al despertar Gregorio Samsa una maąna, tras un sueǫ intranquilo, se encontra en su cama convertido en un monstruoso insecto.
A tale of family and alienation featuring a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who awakens in his family home one morning to find himself turned into a giant bug.
14) Silence
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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After having overcome tremendous challenges to save a love that transcends the boundary between heaven and earth, Nora and Patch must face an adversary with the power to destroy all that they have worked for.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
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If you give-- (Laura Numeroff) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Cuando un niño ve lo que pasa porque no siguío las instrucciones de su padre, trata de hacer correciones.
When he sees the results of not following his father's instructions on the proper way to plant corn, a young boy tries to make things right.