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Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.
2) Ishmael
Author
Series
Ishmael volume 1
Publisher
Bantam/Turner Book
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ishmael opens with the narrator reading the newspaper and finding himself both disgruntled and intrigued by a personal advertisement. The ad indicates that a teacher is looking for a student interested in saving the world. For most of the narrator's early life, he had searched for such a teacher, and he's angry that only now is one looking for him. He's sure the ad is a hoax, but he goes to the indicated address, only to find an empty office space...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The Dorrit family, William and his three children live in the Marshalsea, a debtor's prison. The youngest Amy, Little Dorrit was born in the prison. All three children are allowed to work outside and return at night to be with their father. Little Dorrit does sewing for Mrs. Clemens and when her son, Arthur returns from India, he helps get Dorrit freed from prison. When the family suddenly comes into money, all of them except Little Dorrit become...
4) My Ishmael
Author
Series
Ishmael volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1997, 1998
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
My Ishmael is presented as the final copy of a book published by Julie Gerchak, who has herself read Ishmael. At the time she begins writing, Julie is sixteen, though during the main plot of her story she is merely twelve years old: "a plucky, resourceful, near-genius with a wobbly home life. Like the narrator of Ishmael, Julie discovers a message in her city's newspaper, which advertises a teacher seeking someone who wishes to save the world. Julie...
5) Middlemarch
Author
Language
English
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Description
Follows the lives of Dorothea Brooke, a nineteenth-century crusader who is prevented from being with the man she loves, and the idealistic Dr. Lydgate, who succumbs to materialism.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 291 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the material comforts they can no longer afford provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006, c2001
Physical Desc
xii, 205 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A stranger arrives in a remote mountain village carrying a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil. The stranger puts a proposition to Chantal Prym, his first acquaintance in the village, and with it gives her the power to prove or disprove a supposition that has tormented him for years--given the right set of circumstances every human being on this earth would...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
502 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and nights of apocalyptic terror. Brother William turns detective, and a uniquely deft one at that. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon -- all...
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