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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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"On an autumn day, in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, two boys were born in England, one to a poor family by the name of Canty who lived in Offal Court, not far from London Bridge, and the other to a wealthy and high-placed family by the name of Tudor. Young Tom Canty, unwanted, unloved, began his day-dreaming early in order to forget the petty stealing to which he was forced by his cruel rogue of a father--and the royal Court and young...
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Holey cheese, it was strange! All across New Mouse City, rodents kept telling me I'd done things I had no memory of. Was I going crazy? Had the cheese finally slipped off my cracker? No, that wasn't it. I soon discovered the truth: There was a Geronimo lookalike going around, pretending to be me! He'd even fooled my sister Thea. Worst of all, he was trying to take over The Rodent's Gazette! I had to get that greedy impostor's paws off my newspaper--...
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Mairelon novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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The life of Kim, a street urchin living by her wits in the mean streets of London, changes after she meets Mairelon the traveling magician.
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A baby is born to an English civil servant and a Hindu bride. When the truth is known about his heritage his father ejects him from his house. He is sold to a pair of eunuchs and taken to a backwater state in the Punjab. He escapes to Bombay and meets a drunken Englishman and reinvents himself as Jonathan Bridgeman
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Hussite trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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From the New York Times best-selling author of the legendary Witcher series—the books that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games—comes the first in an epic new trilogy.
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Replica (Marilyn Kaye) volume 4
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Amy Chandler goes to New York City for a contest and ends up in a hospital fighting for her life.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In 1940, whilst working as a secretary at MI6, Alison met Alexander Wilson. Thirty years her senior, Alexander was worldly and charismatic. An intense affair quickly led to marriage and two children. But the Wilsons' lives then spiralled into the depths of poverty. Alexander was sacked, imprisoned twice, and then declared...
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P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years. These two were the most popular creations of a novelist widely proclaimed to be the finest comic English writer by critics and fans alike. Now, forty years later, Bertie and Jeeves return in a hilarious affair of mix-ups and mishaps. Bertie, nursing a bit of heartbreak over the recent engagement of one Georgiana Meadowes to someone not named Wooster, agrees...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Traveling to France during the reign of Louis XIII, Geronimo and his friends enlist in the "mouseketeers" only to discover that the mouse on the throne is an impostor and together they must find the real Louis.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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"Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915 ("Extricating Young Gussie") to the his final completed novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. These two were...
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Geronimo Stilton (Graphic novels) volume 6
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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When Geronimo Stilton finds out that the Pirate Cats are going back in time to Venice in the year 1517, he knows they must be after one thing: The Mona Lisa! Geronimo and friends must travel to Renaissance Italy to stop the Pirate Cats from stealing the Mona Lisa and taking credit for what is arguably the world's most famous painting. But the Pirate Cats have an ace up their sleeve: someone in Geronimo's crew is an impostor!
15) Conundrum
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man's man. Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood,...
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December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe...
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Pub. Date
1997
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"Between Casanova's time and ours stretch two centuries of ignorance and misunderstanding. This remarkable man has been thought of as a Don Juan of the salons, cold and indifferent to women, but in this new book Lydia Flem rediscovers him as he really was, an ardent man of the Enlightenment, a true friend and lover of women." "In Paris, Rome, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and London, this comedians' child could be found in aristocratic milieus or low dives,...
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Pub. Date
2010
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For more than two hundred years the Lake District has been regarded as one of the most beautiful regions of England. Today it continues to exercise a powerful hold on the imagination and, despite its popularity --- more than 20 million people visit every year --- has managed to retain its natural beauty and tranquility. But what is the source of its magnetic attraction and how did it come to exert such a spell? --
Ian Thompson, who grew up in nearby...
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Pub. Date
2007
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"Ed and Al come face to face with the 'father' of the homunculi, who just so happens to be a dead ringer for their own father, Van Hohenheim--a resemblance too uncanny for coincidence. And later, when the allure of immortality proves to be too much for Prince Lin of Xin, he lets Greed take over ... literally!"--P. [1] of cover.
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