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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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This is a story of moral corruption. A gothic melodrama, it is full of subtle impression and epigram. It touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticism and the dangers inherent in it.In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny are orphans.They discover an old red boxcar that provides them shelter from the storm.
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Boxcar children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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"The Aldens spend the summer on Grandfather's island! Joe, the island's friendly handyman, helps them with anything they need, but as the children continue to explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island--and to their new friend--than meets the eye."--Publisher's description.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
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"The Aldens spend the summer on their aunt's ranch! The ranch is a beautiful place, but it's also the source of trouble between Aunt Jane and Grandfather. As the Boxcar Children explore the land, they make an amazing discovery. Will it help mend Aunt Jane and Grandfather's relationship?"--Publisher's description.
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Boxcar children volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
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Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet Alden meet Mike Wood and a strange chain of events begins. Mike's house is mysteriously burned down, a man in a blue hat appears, and the Alden's uranium mine is in danger of being sabotaged. The four youngsters solve the mystery.
6) Frankenstein
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Victor Frankenstein leads an idyllic life in Switzerland with his family and friends until a thirst for knowledge sends him off in search of something that no human being has yet attained--the ability to create life. Victor's success soon proves that, through the work of his own hands, he and his family are destined to live a life of pain and suffering.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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A discarded chain letter augers a series of bad events for Mary Anne, who is plagued by bad luck and a threatening note demanding a midnight meeting on Old Man Sutcliff's grave.
11) The Giver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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1995
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A young princess with an empathic connection to animals and to the Ohmu, giant insects created by a war-time ecological disaster that nearly destroyed civilization, struggles to keep peace between the kingdoms of survivors that vie for the world's natural resources, as well as protect them from the encroaching toxic forest.
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1996
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Kosaku Hatanaka is a pro boxer with promise, but he's also the bane of his coach's existence because Kosaku can't control his appetite, which plays havoc with his weight class. Sister Angela is a young nun that keeps drawing Kosaku's attention. Can her faith help Kosaku win his battle of the gut?
14) Shaman king
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[2003]
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Asakura Yoh is a new student in a junior high. He is able to communicate with dead people and let them possess his body so that they can complete their last earthly wishes. With his friend Manta, Yoh the Shaman encounters the souls that have not entered Nirvana.
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1999.
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Ash Ketchum wants to be the greatest Pokémon master and decides to train Pikachu to be his first Pokémon partner. Then watch Ash and Pikachu try to win badges from Brock and Misty. Afterwards, Ash travels to Mount Moon to explore the culture of the Clefairy,then everybody helps Sabrina escape the clutches of an evil, enormous Haunter.
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2000?
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Inu-Yasha, Kagome, and Shippo, on their continuing quest to find more shards of the shattered jewel, meet Nazuna, who is fleeing from a horde of demons. They return her to a temple where she was taken in after her father died, but something awful awaits them there and Inu-Yasha's true nature is revealed.
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Left behind graphic novel volume 1, 1
Pub. Date
c2001
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Airline captain Rayford Steele, stunned when over one hundred passengers vanish from his plane in the blink of an eye, quickly realizes the Rapture his wife had been telling him about--an event in which Jesus would return to take his followers to Heaven before they die--had happened and he had been left behind.