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Book cover for "Where wonder grows".
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Publisher:
Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date:
©2022
Language:
English
Description:
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.
Book cover for "The adventures of Tom Sawyer".
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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,...
Book cover for "Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass".
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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...
Book cover for "Peter Pan".
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Lexile measure:
920L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Classic fiction. Neverland is home to Peter Pan, a young boy who has never grown up. On one of his visits to London, Peter makes the acquaintance of young Wendy Darling, whom he invites to travel with him to Neverland and become the mother of his gang of Lost Boys. Flying through the night sky to Neverland, Wendy and her brothers John and Michael soon become caught up in marvelous adventures with the Indian Princess Tiger Lily, the loyal fairy Tinker...
Book cover for "Jane Eyre".
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Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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This is a story of a woman of passion and intelligence who refuses to be satisfied with her "place" in society, and asserts her identity and aspirations with defiance and dignity. In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

6. Spawn

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Publisher:
Image Comics
Language:
English
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Beginning The Satan Saga Wars! The Four-Part Story Chronicling The Final Fate Of Wanda Simmons Soul! This Story Will Forever Change The Way Spawn Will Live His Life! In the entire run of the Spawn comic, our hero has never had to face his greatest threat: Satan himself! Starting with this issue, Al Simmons will come face to face with Lucifer for the very first time. A battle of epic proportion will begin and the prize Wanda's soul. This story will...
Book cover for "Hard times".
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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.
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Lexile measure:
NC: Non-Conforming 1370L
Language:
English
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Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, the fantastic tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. At first, he is shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the alarmed residents are only six inches high. His second voyage takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, where the people are sixty feet high. Further adventures bring Gulliver to an island that floats in the sky and to a land where horses are endowed...
Book cover for "Wuthering Heights".
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Lexile measure:
880L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...
Book cover for "Out of nowhere".
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
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.
Book cover for "Year of wonders".
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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...
Book cover for "The picture of Dorian Gray and other stories".
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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...
Book cover for "Winnie-the-Pooh".
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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.
Book cover for "Red queen".
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Series:
Red queen volume 1
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 740L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess...
Book cover for "The tales of Beedle the Bard".
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Lexile measure:
1230L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz".
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Lexile measure:
1020L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
An earthquake drops Dorothy and her friend Zeb into the Vegetable Kingdom, a land of glass buildings, princesses that grow, and invisible people, where they encounter the Wizard of Oz and together seek the Emerald City.
Book cover for "Ice age".
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Publisher:
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2009]
Language:
English
Description:
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...

18. Heidi

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Lexile measure:
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. "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"--
Book cover for "The guest cottage".
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Sensible thirty-six-year-old Sophie Anderson has always known what to do, but when her husband announces that he's leaving her for another woman, Sophie realizes she has no idea what's next. Impulsively renting a guest cottage on Nantucket from her friend Susie Swenson, Sophie rounds up her kids, Jonah and Lacey, and leaves Boston for a quiet family vacation, minus one.

20. OZ

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Publisher:
Caliber Comics
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Based on the series of novels from Frank L. Baum. Return to and witness the incredible land of OZ after Dorothy and Toto had their famous adventure. But now… The Emerald City is tarnished. The Yellow Brick Road is in ruins. Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion, are gone. OZ is no longer a happy fantasyland of wonderful wizards and innocent singers. It is an OZ where a great evil has darkened the skies and come to despoil the land. And into this world of...