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1. Henry, like always

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Author:
Bailey, Jenn, 1965-
Series:
Henry
Pub. Date:
2023
Lexile measure:
490L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Henry, a first grader on the autism spectrum, attempts to navigate friendships, and sudden changes in classroom routines--like a parade on Friday instead of share time.

2. 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:
920L
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...

3. Northanger Abbey

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Penguin English library
Signature classics
Everyman's library volume 109
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Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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"When seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand and forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she allows the Gothic novels she's obsessed with to fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Determined to...

4. Sense and sensibility

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Canterbury classics
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Lexile measure:
1180L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centered fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, while Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her...

5. The lost bookshop

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Author:
Woods, Evie
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found... For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world...

6. Mr. Putter and Tabby fly the plane

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Author:
Rylant, Cynthia
Series:
Mr. Putter and Tabby volume 5
Lexile measure:
460L
Language:
English
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Mr. Putter's love of toys is almost as strong as his affection for his cat--but are he and she too old to play with a toy airplane?

7. As you like it

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Cambridge library collection
Plays
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Language:
English
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Exiled royals--including a duke's daughter, disguised as a man--and country folk, learn lessons about class and gender through a series of love triangles in the Forest of Arden.

8. Carrie Soto is back: a novel

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Author:
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
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English
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4.3 stars
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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime--from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...

9. Mansfield Park

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Oxford world's classics
New York Public Library collector's edition
Signature classics
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Lexile measure:
1180L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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When a poor cousin, Fannie Price, comes to live at the estate of the sophisticated Bertram family, she suffers from the condescension of her haughty relatives and from the hopeless love she bears for their youngest son. Life becomes even more complicated when she is forced into a rivalry with a charming and vivacious newcomer. Fannie will have to question her most cherished beliefs about herself and her world as she struggles to make a home for herself....

10. Pride and prejudice

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Dover large print classics
Oxford illustrated Jane Austen volume 2
Gramercy classics
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Lexile measure:
1190L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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A novel of manners about the romantic 'pas de deux' between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, two perfectly suited lovers who, at first, find each other insufferable. Despite Elizabeth's negative feelings about Darcy, fate seems determined to keep throwing this pair together, and Darcy, almost in spite of himself, will make revelations that will end up causing Elizabeth to question everything she believes. Set in a time when marrying well was...

11. The red queen

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Author:
Gregory, Philippa
Series:
Cousins' war volume 2
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 3
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster.

12. Heidi Heckelbeck has a secret

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Author:
Coven, Wanda
Series:
Heidi Heckelbeck volume 1
Lexile measure:
580L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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After being homeschooled her whole life, Heidi Heckelbeck enters a real school in second grade, where she encounters a mean girl named Melanie who makes her feel like an alien.

13. The turn of the key

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Author:
Ware, Ruth
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...

14. The emerald city of Oz

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Author:
Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
Series:
Oz volume 6
Books of wonder
Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Dorothy's aunt and uncle get acquainted with Oz after they lose their farm and Ozma invites them to live with her.

15. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Simon and Schuster classics
Barnes and Noble classics
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Lexile measure:
630L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

16. Henry, himself

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Author:
O'Nan, Stewart, 1961-
Language:
English
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Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honor. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice, and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple anymore. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife Emily and dog Rufus stand...

17. The golden bowl

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Author:
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Series:
Penguin English library
Everyman's library volume 117
Language:
English
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The Golden Bowl comes in the first years of the 20th-century: the publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, decided never to serialise it and published it in New York in December 1904 in two volumes. After just a few months, in February 1905, also Methuen published the novel in London in a one-volume edition. In 1909, a revised edition appeared as volumes 23 and 24 of the New York edition, and James this time also prepared the preface, in which he reflected...

18. War and peace

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Author:
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Easy Classics Epic Collection
Penguin classics deluxe edition
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Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. Tolstoy's epic ranges from stirring depictions of historical events to intimate portraits of family life, moving between public spectacles and private lives to offer a tale of both panoramic scope and closely observed detail. From the breathless excitement...

19. The prince and the pauper: and other stories

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Timeless Classics
Puffin classics
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Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 520L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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This historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles -- a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters. The Prince, dressed in rags,...

20. The merry wives of Windsor

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare William
Works
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Language:
English
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Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
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