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(0)Jamel Akib
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this classic adventure novel, first published in 1873, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a?20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman and his manservant immediately set off.
2) Frankenstein
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
An abriged version of the novel in which a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.
5) Dracula
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who from a young age was determined to make difference in the world and eventually revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending. Includes an afterword and author's sources"--
9) Heidi
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
10) Monsoon
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child describes waiting for the monsoon rains to arrive and the worry that they will not come.
11) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Englishman Robinson Crusoe, who, after becoming the sole survivor of a 1659 shipwreck, lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of an adventure in seventeenth-century France, when young d'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.
13) Divali rose
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the festival of Divali approaches, Ricki wants to confess that he accidentally broke a rosebud off the bush he and his grandfather planted, but grandfather is busy blaming the neighbors who are newly arrived in Trinidad from India. Includes facts about Divali and the people and language of Trinidad.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of Kate Douglas Wiggin's classic story of talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca's adventures after she leaves her home at Sunnybrook Farm to go live in town with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental.
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the Mark Twain classic in which young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places and each learns something about the other's very different station in life.
20) Pollyanna
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna, who comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, bringing happiness to her aunt and other members of the community through her philosophy of gladness.
