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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. 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.

5. Gulliver's travels

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Author:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Everyman's library volume 26
Barnes and Noble classics
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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...

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. 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...

9. 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...

10. 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....

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. Year of wonders: a novel of the plague

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Author:
Brooks, Geraldine
Lexile measure:
1080L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna...

13. 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"--

14. 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...

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. Red queen

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Author:
Aveyard, Victoria
Series:
Red queen volume 1
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 740L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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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...

17. 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.

18. 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...

19. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

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Author:
Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
Series:
Oz volume 4
Books of WonderBooks of Wonder Classics
Lexile measure:
1020L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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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.

20. 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
Formats:
Book, Large Print
Description:
"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...
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