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1. Where wonder grows

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Author:
González, Xelena
Publisher:
Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date:
©2022
Language:
English
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Three girls follow their grandmother into her garden, where they examine her collection of rocks, crystals, shells, and meteorites and learn about the marvels they reveal.

2. The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Oxford world's classics
First Avenue Classics
Greenwich House classics library
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Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...

3. Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass

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Author:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Series:
Puffin chalk
Studio book
Alice in Wonderland
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Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...

4. Gulliver's travels

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Author:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Great illustrated classics volume F224-41
Great books of the Western world volume 36
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Lexile measure:
NC: Non-Conforming 1370L
Language:
English
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Gulliver's Travels tells of the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an Englishman and ship's surgeon, who travels to the "several remote nations of the world." In the beginning, he becomes shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the distressed inhabitants are only six inches tall. His second voyage takes him to Brobdingnag, where lives a race of giants. At Glubdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers, he speaks with great men of the past and learns from...

5. Hard times

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Tantor unabridged classics
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Lexile measure:
1060L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
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No other work of Dickens presents so relentless an indictment against the callous greed of the Victorian indistrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy as this fiercest of his novels. With savage bitterness Dickens unmasks the hellish industries that imprisoned the bodies of the helpless labor class and the equally satanic institutions that shackled the development of their minds.

6. Out of nowhere

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Author:
Brown, Sandra, 1948-
Language:
English
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3.7 stars
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Brought together by a mass shooting at a Texas county fair, children's book author and single mother Elle Portman and high-rolling corporate consultant Calder Hudson, both fueled by revenge, search for a killer while wondering if the attraction growing between them is too painful and complicated to sustain.

7. The tempest

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Plays
RSC Shakespeare
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Lexile measure:
1290L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"This book presents a historical overview of The Tempest in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading directors - Peter Brook, Sam Mendes and Rupert Goold - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after...

8. Guts

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Author:
Telgemeier, Raina
Series:
Smile:
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 480L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Graphic Novel, Hoopla eComic
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A true story from Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Timesbestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts! Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes...

9. Angela's ashes: a memoir

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Author:
McCourt, Frank
Series:
Wheeler large print book
Frank McCourt volume 1
Lexile measure:
1110L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland....

10. Year of wonders: a novel of the plague

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Author:
Brooks, Geraldine
Lexile measure:
1080L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based on real-life events in seventeenth-century England. A first novel. "When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine...

11. Winnie-the-Pooh

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Author:
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956
Series:
Winnie-the-Pooh volume 1
Chivers CD children's audio books
A.A. Milne's Pooh classics volume 1
Lexile measure:
790L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.

12. The picture of Dorian Gray and other stories

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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Series:
Vintage classics
Marvel illustrated
Barnes and Noble classics
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Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward, who is greatly impressed by Dorian's physical beauty and becomes strongly infatuated with him, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Talking in Basil's garden, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new kind of hedonism, Lord Henry suggests that...

13. The secret garden

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Author:
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
Series:
Chartwell classics
Courage classics
Commuters library
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Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Classics. This is an exquisite leatherbound edition of a much-loved children's classic that will be cherished by all ages. It is suitable for children aged 10 to 13 years old. On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle's estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. She cultivates the garden, an experience that both improves her health and raises her spirits. And it proves...

14. Heidi

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Author:
Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901
Series:
Heidi
Books of wonder
Whole story
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Lexile measure:
1000L
Language:
English
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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. "A hardcover edition of the classic Swiss novel, in Helen B. Dole's English translation and with illustrations by William Sharp from the 1945 edition"--

15. The tales of Beedle the Bard

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Author:
Rowling, J. K.
Series:
Harry Potter
Hogwarts Library
Lexile measure:
1230L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger's new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J. K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales.

16. Ice age: Dawn of the dinosaurs

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Publisher:
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2009]
Language:
English
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Manny and his friends discover a lost world of dinosaurs. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut and maybe finding true love; Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth; Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonder if he's growing too 'soft' handing with his pals; and Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into...

17. The unwedding

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Author:
Condie, Allyson Braithwaite
Series:
Thorndike Press large print thriller adventure and suspense
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world. She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth wedding anniversary together at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, California. Where better to celebrate a marriage, a family, and a life together than at one of the most stunning places on earth? But now she's traveling solo. To add insult to injury, there's a wedding at Broken Point scheduled during her stay. Ellery...

18. An American childhood

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Author:
Dillard, Annie
Series:
G.K. Hall large print book
Lexile measure:
1040L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.

19. Legacy

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Author:
Roberts, Nora
Series:
Thorndike Press large print basic
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her-before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend-and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend's ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand...

20. The Unwedding

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Author:
Condie, Ally
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author—"a clever, witty, and fast-paced whodunit" (Harlan Coben).
A Reese's Book Club Pick!
Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world.   She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth wedding anniversary together at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in...
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