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Lexile measure
950L
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English
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The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...
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Series
Macmillan classics volume 19
Calico Illustrated Classics Set 2
Everyman's library volume 336
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Calico Illustrated Classics Set 2
Everyman's library volume 336
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Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
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Series
Lexile measure
1020L
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English
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"Its been five years since Anne came to Green Gables and shes quite grown-uppish now. True shes more interested in writing about love than falling in it, and her nose still has seven freckles. But as the new teacher at her old school, shes left her days of breaking slates and walking ridgepoles behind. Shes determined not to get into any more trouble. Then again, one cant get over the habit of being a little girl all at once" --
4) Heidi
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Lexile measure
AD 960L
Language
English
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A Swiss orphan 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. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the story.
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Lexile measure
980L
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English
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An innkeeper's son finds a treasure map that leads him to a pirate's fortune. Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. "Treasure Island" has enthralled readers for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are pieces of folklore for as long as children read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. Illustrations.
9) Jane Eyre
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Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
10) Oliver Twist
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
"When a young orphan runs away to London, he falls in with a group of pickpockets and thieves. Oliver Twist (1838), is one of Charles Dickens' most highly regarded works, and is a pioneering work of social realism. An unvarnished portrayal of crime and poverty in Victorian England, this is an essential classic of literature" -- Page [4] cover.
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Great illustrated classics volume F224-41
Great books of the Western world volume 36
Tor Classics
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Great books of the Western world volume 36
Tor Classics
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Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
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Gulliver's strange adventures in some of the most unusual lands ever imagined have made this one of the rare classics with an enduring and wide-ranging appeal to all ages. Gulliver's bad luck at sea not only gets him shipwrecked and castaway, but repeatedly throws him into strange societies of even stranger people. Readers are likely aware of Gulliver's experiences in Lilliput, where he meets a kingdom of six-inch-tall people with a set of prejudices...