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This collection of AEsop's stories is based on the nineteenth century research and translation of George Fyler Townsend, returns the fables to the adult audience for which they were intended. All the charm and wit of AEsop are in the tales, but they have a style and sophistication lacking in the juvenile editions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This is an old story. It is about a girl named Otilla who runs away. It is also about a house in the woods, and a skull who lives there, and a secret the skull has, and the night that Otilla finds out what that secret is."-- Front jacket flap.
5) The odyssey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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"When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece." "Now Robert Fagles presents us with the Odyssey, Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the arduous wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey...
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Handmaid's tale volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The Handmaid's Tale is everywhere--and it's primed for a stunning new graphic novel adaptation. The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child....
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Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and ch�ateau modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Ch�ateau Joy,...
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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world, just so happens to be the genius behind the building of the new town library. Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in the library for an overnight of fun, food, and lots and lots...
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A court of thorns and roses volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever"--‡cProvided by publisher.
11) Boy, snow, bird
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English
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"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"-- Provided by publisher.
12) Enchantment
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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In a Russian forest, a New York scholar awakens a sleeping princess with a kiss and she takes him to the 9th century. They are forced to return to the present, pursued by a witch who hijacks an airliner. One adventure follows another and there is a happy ending. By the author of Heartfire.
13) Ocean's twelve
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Ocean's Twelve reintroduces Ocean and his perfectly trained team of con men. Dividing forces to hit Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome, the heist-meisters move beyond casinos to tackle new objectives, one of which involves stealing a famous painting.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In this adaptation of the Little Red Hen fable, Ruby wants to build a fort, but her three brothers refuse to help, so when the fort is finished Ruby will not let them join her--until the boys come up with a few embellishments for the fort, like a mailbox, a garden, and a fresh coat of paint
15) Grendel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry for help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. Good thing since as it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home. Unfortunately for Horton, this gives him nothing but torment from his neighbors. They refuse to believe that anything could survive on the...