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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Includes two of George Orwell's novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state, and the enslavement of the individual. 1984 is a political fiction and dystopian science fiction which is set in Airstrip One (formerly Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. Animal farm is an allegorical novel that reflects events leading up to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by...
4) Mercy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamie McDonald turns himself in after killing his terminally-ill wife, and his cousin Cam, the chief of police, finds himself at odds with his own wife, Allie, over the ethics of the situation. Their marriage is further strained by the arrival of Mia, a new assistant at Allie's shop who captures Cam's attention.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
8) Canada
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Examines the land, people, and history of Canada and discusses its state of affairs and place in the world today.
9) Cuba
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
11) Ghana
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Corp
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, language, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of Ghana.
12) Somalia
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of this peninsular African nation on the Indian Ocean.
13) Honduras
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Corporation
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
15) Mongolia
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, language, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of Mongolia.
20) Costa Rica
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Surveys the geography, history, government, and culture of the oldest democracy in Latin America.
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