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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
Description
Hank Morgan finds himself transported to Dark Ages Englandw̮here he is immediately captured and sentenced to death at Camelot. Fortunately, heś quick-witted, and in the process of saving his life he turns himself into a celebrity of the highest magnitudew̮inning himself the position of prime minister as well as the lasting enmity of Merlin.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, her aunts find her to be more of a handful than they bargained for. But even more surprising than the transition of Rebecca into a well-mannered young lady are the effects that Rebecca has on her aunts' humdrum lives.
7) Dracula
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
990L
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Description
During a business visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Count's transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth. Harker returns home upon his escape from Dracula's grim fortress, but a friend's strange malady —...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 42
Appears on list
Description
"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...
11) Rip Van Winkle
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
Arthur Rackham's 1905 illustrations highlight the story of Rip Van Winkle, an eighteenth-century Catskill Mountains man with an aversion to profitable labor, who falls asleep for twenty years and awakens to a very different village.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When a storm blows Dorothy to the land of Ev where lunches grow on trees, she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion, and Princess Ozma, and together they set out to free the Queen of Ev and her ten children.
19) Machu Picchu
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the history of the Inca civilization and the construction of the city of Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains.
20) The Parthenon
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the building that tells the story of the rise of Athens and to see the height of Athenian culture and the roots of our own.