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A young governess turns up at a country estate in Essex to care for Miles and Flora, two young orphans left in care of their absentee uncle. Soon after her tenure begins, the governess begins to see strangers walking the grounds, and interacting with the siblings in odd and disturbing ways. The governess begins to feel they are not wholly human-but rather are ghosts haunting Miles and Flora, and their influence upon the children has tragic consequences....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
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English
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A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone. The stranger--a brilliant scientist--has uncovered the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder!
3) Passing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A light-skinned African American woman is married to a white man who is ignorant of her racial heritage. Her childhood friend, equally capable of "passing," has chosen to live her life as a black woman and deny the existence of racism. A chance meeting forces both women to confront truths about themselves.
4) Persuasion
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
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Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A Beautiful and flirtatious American girl Daisy Miller and a sophisticated compatriot Frederick Winterbourne first meet in Switzerland. They continue to see each other in Rome and meet more American expatriates there, but their relationship does not always flow smoothly. Henry James uses Daisy's story to discuss what he thinks Europeans and Americans believe about each other, and more generally the prejudices common in any culture. The story is one...
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A teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain's criminal underworld in this "brilliant and uncompromising" thriller (The New York Times). Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised amid the casual violence and corruption in the dire prewar Brighton slums, has left his final judgment in the hands of God. On the streets, impelled by his own twisted moral doctrine, he leads a motley pack of gangsters whose sleazy little rackets have most recently erupted...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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Augie March is a Jewish-American boy growing up fatherless and poor in Depression-era Chicago. He seeks a "special destiny," although his circumstances seem to position him for a uniquely disappointing life: his family consists of a simple-minded mother, a brother and "grandmother" who prove to be Machiavellian in their intentions, and an "idiot" youngest brother, Georgie.
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Penguin Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children; at odds with his vain, successful father; failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as “the type that loses the girl”); and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes...
10) Fifth business
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
xiii, 252 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first novel in Davies's celebrated "Deptford Trilogy" introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide.
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