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1) Bleak House
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Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
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Lexile measure
1170L
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English
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When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorized by aliens in tall, armored capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson tells how he was plunged into a paralyzing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction.
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Series
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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"When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both witches! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Serenna Izard. It seems that Serenna and her husband built a timepiece into...
Author
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The inspiration for the iconic musical Cats, T. S. Eliot's classic and delightful collection of poetry about cats.
These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and adults alike. This collection is a curious and artful homage to felines young and old, merry, and fierce, small and unmistakably round. This is the ultimate gift for cat and poetry lovers.
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Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
63 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 13 x 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"If you want to pretend you're shrinking, that's all right," said Treehorn's mother, "as long as you don't do it at the table." But Treehorn wasn’t pretending. He really was shrinking, and that didn’t make life easy for him as he became smaller by the moment. Treehorn’s teacher said, we don’t shrink in this class, and sent him to the Principal. Poor Treehorn spends an unhappy day and night until he discovers a magical game that helps him solve...
10) The jumblies
Author
Pub. Date
1968
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations ; 16 x 24 cm
Language
English
14) Cobweb Castle
Author
Pub. Date
1968
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
179, 155, 188 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The House with a Clock in Its Walls; The Figure in the Shadows and The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring are three magically eerie tales gathered in this one-volume edition. The series opens as Lewis Barnavelt, a newly orphaned ten-year-old, comes to live with his Uncle Johnathan. Little does Lewis know that Uncle Johnathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmerman are witches. Lewis finds that he himself owns magical powers, and soon is thrust in...