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Hitchhiker series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 9
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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
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"Hank Morgan, cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, wakes to find himself in the England of King Arthur. The tough minded Yankee, an embodiment of scientific enlightenment, faces a world whose idyllic surface only masks the dark forces of fear, injustice, and ignorance. This is the springboard which launches one of literature's most extraordinary excursions into fantasy. With the agility of Mark Twain's unique virtuosity,...
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Warlord chronicles volume 1
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A novel on King Arthur, the legendary 6th Century hero, as he battles the Anglo-Saxons in defense of the Celts. Off the battlefield his sidekick, the magician Merlin, does his best to save Druid gods from invading Christianity.
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Hitchhiker series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.
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Holmes on the range mysteries volume 4
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In 1893, Otto 'Big Red' Amlingmeyer and his brother Gustav, 'Old Red' find themselves in a situation that they never expected. They have a bit of money and time to do something other than scramble. It's enough to confound even that most unconfoundable of men, their mutual inspiration, Sherlock Holmes. So Old Red decides that it's time for the two of them to head off to the Texas hill country, to San Marcos, and deal with the greatest tragedy of Old...
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"It's 1893, a tough year in Montana, and any job is a good job. When Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer sign on as ranch hands at the secretive Bar VR cattle spread, they're not expecting much more than hard work, bad pay, and a comfortable campfire around which they can enjoy their favorite pastime: scouring Harper's Weekly for stories about the famous Sherlock Holmes." "When the boys come across a dead body that looks a whole lot like the leftovers...
11) Arthur's tooth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Arthur, tired of being the only one in his class who still has all his baby teeth, waits impatiently for his loose tooth to fall out.
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Holmes on the range mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
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In San Francisco in 1893 in search of a detective job, Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto, a.k.a. "Big Red," devotees of the Sherlock Holmes method of "detectifying," pursue an old acquaintance who takes a shot at them in Chinatown.
14) The Big four
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They are formidable enemies in their own rights: a French scientist, an American millionaire, a brilliant Chinese gentleman, and a master of disguise. But together they are the Big Four, a partnership with one simple goal, murder. Hercule Poirot has never come up against an opponent so vicious, or so deadly.
17) The Sherlockian
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In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective's next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off. London spiraled into mourning -- crowds sported black armbands in grief -- and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin. Then in 1901, just as abruptly as Conan Doyle had "murdered" Holmes in "The Final Problem," he resurrected...
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2006.
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At the center of THE COMMONWEALTH OF THIEVES is Arthur Phillips, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy assigned the formidable task of organizing the expedition to Australia and establishing a colony comprised mainly of unskilled and malcontent criminals and petty thieves. Using Phillipss personal journals, along with other historical documents, Keneally re-creates the grueling overseas voyage, a hellish journey that claimed the lives of many convicts....
19) Arthur babysits
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Arthur's experience babysitting for the terrible Tibble Twins is as challenging as he expected, but he finally gets control by telling them a spooky story.