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Pride and Prejudice (1813) is one of the most popular novels of the English tongue in which Jane Austen tells the story of Elizabeth Bennet, a beautiful twenty-year-old woman whose liveliness and intelligence do not prevent her from having false impressions and prejudgments about the people surrounding her. The young woman lives with her middle-class family and her best friend Charlotte Lucas. As the plot unfolds, Elizabeth develops a romantic

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2) A tale of two cities

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

Classic collection)

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27

Language

English

Formats

Description

Bantam classic
The Adventures of Tom and Huck
The Mark Twain in Person Audio Library

Presents Dickens' classic tale of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution.

3) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

Language

English

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Historically Challenged or Banned Books

Formats

Description

Graphic classics (Magic Wagon)
Peter Pan

Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.

4) Peter Pan

Author

Barrie, J. M

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

Description

One of the most popular magical novels in literature, Barrie's enchanting tale of Peter Pan, about a boy who never grows up, his home in Neverland, and his adventures with the Darling children and the Lost boys as they go up against the evil Captain Hook, remains an endearing, and enduring, story for all ages.

5) Uncle Tom's cabin

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Series

Dover Thrift Editions
A Signet classic volume 451-CE2302

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32

Language

English

Formats

Description

Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852. Denouncing the institution of slavery in dramatic terms, the incendiary novel quickly draws the reader into the world of slaves and their masters.
Stowe's characters are powerfully and humanly realized in Uncle Tom, a majestic and heroic slave whose faith and dignity are never corrupted; Eliza...

6) Mary Poppins

Author

Travers, P. L

Series

Mary Poppins series volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Formats

Description

An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.

7) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Author

Book, Playaway Pre-Loaded Audiobook Player, Sound Disc

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 5

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44

Language

English

Formats

Description

"There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? It's not just the upcoming O.W.L. exams; a new teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a venomous, disgruntled house-elf; or even the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Now Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and...

8) Harry Potter and the half-blood prince

Author

Book, Playaway Pre-Loaded Audiobook Player, Sound Disc

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 6

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 29

Language

English

Formats

Description

There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building... wherever they had murdered...
When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself

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9) Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban

Author

Book, Playaway Pre-Loaded Audiobook Player, Sound Disc

Series

Harry Potter (Illustrated series) volume 3

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18

Language

English

Formats

Description

During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

10) The man in the iron mask

Author

Dumas, Alexandre

Series

Three musketeers series volume 6
First Avenue Classics ™
Classic collection)
d'Artagnan Romance

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 34

Language

English

Formats

Description

In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

11) A tree grows in Brooklyn

Author

Smith, Betty

Publisher

Caedmon

Pub. Date

p2008.

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23

Language

English

Description

Young Francie Nolan experiences the problems of growing up in a Brooklyn, New York slum.

12) Harry Potter and the deathly hallows

Author

Book, Playaway Pre-Loaded Audiobook Player, Sound Disc

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 7
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 7

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 34

Language

English

Formats

Description

Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.

13) Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone

Author

Historically Challenged or Banned Books
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12

Language

English

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Formats

Book, Playaway Pre-Loaded Audiobook Player, Sound Disc

Description

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

14) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Author

Book, Playaway Pre-Loaded Audiobook Player, Sound Disc

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 2
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14

Language

English

Formats

Description

When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

15) Harry Potter and the goblet of fire

Author

Book, Playaway Pre-Loaded Audiobook Player, Sound Disc

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 4
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 4

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 32

Language

English

Formats

Description

Percy Jackson Companion Books

Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.

16) Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Author

Riordan, Rick

Series

Publisher

Disney-Hyperion

Pub. Date

[2014]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17

Language

English

Appears on list

NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback

Description

"A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week. So begins Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, in which the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and...

17) The Jungle

Author

Sinclair, Upton

Series

Classics illustrated graphic novels (Papercutz) volume 9

Language

English

Formats

Description

Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.

18) Candide

Author

Voltaire

Series

Bantam classic

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Formats

Description

The story of a simple, optimistic man whose travels take him from one disaster to another.

19) The Lord of the Rings

Author

Tolkien, J.R.R

Series

The Lord of the Rings

Publisher

Listening Library

Pub. Date

p1999

Language

English

Description

Plays
Arkangel Shakespeare Collection

Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with J.R.R. Tolkien's classic masterpieces behind the films...

This special 50th anniversary edition includes three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), along with an extensive new index—a must-own tome for old and new Tolkien readers alike.

One

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20) The merry wives of Windsor

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Publisher

Audio Partners Pub. Group

Pub. Date

c2003

Language

English

Description