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21) Black Beauty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that...
22) Little men
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 19
Formats
Description
Continues the story of Little Women. This story takes place at Plumfield, a school founded by Jo and Father Bhaer for young boys and girls. Meg's and Jo's children are in the story, as are Marmee, Aunt Amy, and Uncle Laurie.
24) Peter Pan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie's tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up, remains one of the most beloved children's books ever written. For nearly a hundred years, kids across the world have drifted off to sleep dreaming about Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys, pixie dust and ticking clocks, crocodiles and Captain Hook. But in spite of the story's visual richness, it has never been illustrated photographically until now. In this lavishly produced edition of the...
25) Rose in bloom
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
As a sequel to Eight cousins, Rose Campbell, a young heiress, is not interested in marriage until she has a chance to prove she is a capable person in her own right.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
In the 1880's in southern Africa, Allan Quatermain, a hunter and guide, joins forces with a sea captain and an English nobleman to find the latter's missing brother, who disappeared while searching for King Solomon's legendary lost diamond mines.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
"Jules Verne's pioneering classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher, written in runes, tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own. So with his nephew reluctantly in tow, the Professor follows this cryptic clue down into a dormant volcano, and the further they descend, the more extraordinary the discoveries and creatures...
30) Gentle Ben
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A warm, dramatic story of a friendship between a boy and a bear in the Alaskan frontier. More than a fine animal story, a vivid chronicle of Alaska, its people and places, challenges and beauties.
32) To be a slave
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. Includes instructions on folding paper cranes.
Series
Pub. Date
c1978
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"The ragamuffin Aladdin finds an old lamp which makes his fortune; a prince disappears on a flying horse; a falcon proves wiser than a king...These tales of kings and princes, magicians, and talking beasts, which were daily entertainment in India, Persia and Arabia over a thousand years ago, are retold especially for children in this vivid, fresh collection."
36) The Westing Game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Appears on list
Description
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. Includes previously unpublished artwork and author's notes about design elements.
37) Freckles
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Orphaned and maimed, Freckles' bitterness about his fate is lessened when he is hired to guard a stretch of lumber in the wild Limberlost and, after meeting the beautiful "Swamp Angel," he determines to find out about his past.
38) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Matilda, a brilliant, sensitive little girl, uses her talents and ingenuity to seek revenge on her crooked father, lazy mother, and the terrifying Miss Trunchbull, her wicked headmistress, and save her beloved teacher, Miss Honey.