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1) Little women
Author
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
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Description
"Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832?1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters?Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March?detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Little Women was an immediate commercial and...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kit has grown up on the island of Barbados, loved and pampered by her grandfather. But after his death, Kit must leave. It's not proper for a sixteen-year-old girl to live by herself. She's heard stories about her aunt and uncle who live in the colony of Connecticut. These are the only relatives Kit knows of. So, alone and desperate, she sets sail to live with them in New England. When she arrives, Kit is shocked by the gray, damp landscape, but...
3) Jackaby
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
4) Little men
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With two young sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the unusual school at Plumfield, Jo March now Mrs Jo Bhaer couldn't be happier. But the boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and their mischievous antics call for the warm and affectionate support of the whole March family to help avoid disaster.
6) Jo's boys
Author
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Better known for her novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott continued the story of her feisty protagonist Jo in this final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family. Entertaining, surprising, and overall a joy to read, Jo's Boys is nevertheless shaded by a bittersweet tone, for with it Alcott brought her wonderful series to an end. Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New...
8) Blizzard
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
After a massive blizzard, a boy becomes a hero when he manages to walk to the local store and bring supplies back to his neighborhood which has been snowed in for days. Based on the author's childhood experience with the record-breaking 1978 New England blizzard.
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Series
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne and her "straynge band of mysfits" have journeyed from London to America to rescue their friend Jasper, hauled off by bounty hunters. But Jasper is in the clutches of a devious former friend demanding a trade ; the dangerous device Jasper stole from him for the life of the girl Jasper loves. One false move from Jasper and the strange clockwork collar around Mei's neck tightens. And tightens. From the rough streets of...
14) Beastly bones
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer R. F. Jackaby are called upon to investigate the supernatural. First, a vicious species of shape-shifters disguise themselves as a litter of kittens, and a day later, their owner is found murdered with a single mysterious puncture wound. Then in nearby Gad's Valley, now home to the exiled New Fiddleham police detective...
Author
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With two sons of her own and twelve orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer couldn't be happier. But boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, even when they are being cared for by the warm and affectionate March family. Both trouble and adventure follow the boys from one day to the next as they carve a place for themselves among the Marches.
Author
Series
Main Street volume 5
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Someone is leaving books on their doorsteps. Each comes with a mysterious message asking them to read the book and do something new. The four friends now have a secret girls -only book club. Who's sending these packages? And what will the next book be? The girls can't wait to find out.
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the gang meets up with famous fright-writer Ben Ravencroft, he invites them to New England for his hometown's big Autumn Harvest Festival. Things take a supernatural detour when they learn the place is haunted - by Ben's ancestor Sarah. The gang is on the case, tangling with bumbling mummies, monster turkeys and a ghostly secret hidden in the Ravencroft family's past.
19) Trapped
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 1
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
165 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1905, while pursuing her dreams of becoming an artist, the twelve-year-old daughter of the Cape Light lighthouse keeper learns the value of family, home, and friendship.