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Antony and Cleopatra (1607) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives-a series of biographies on influential figures of the ancient world-Shakespeare wrote Antony and Cleopatra sometime between 1599 and 1601. Often considered a sequel of sorts to his earlier play Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra has served as source material for countless film and television adaptations. "Let Rome in Tiber melt,...
2) The House
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The old, abandoned house at the end of Grace's street is a local legend. All the neighbors say it's haunted, but every Halloween someone leaves candy on the front porch. Grace and her friends decide to investigate, hoping to find out once and for all if someone-or something-really is haunting the place. But what if there is more to the...
3) Richard III
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Believed to have been written in 1591, William Shakespeare's "Richard III" is one of the bards first plays, the first installment in a tetralogy of plays which includes "Henry IV, Part I," "Henry IV, Part II," and "Henry V." One of the longest of Shakespeare's plays and consequently rarely performed unabridged, "Richard III" is the story of the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England. The play begins with...
4) Tom Jones
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Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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The Tin Woodsman of Oz (1918), a bestseller upon its publication, was a welcome victory for its author L. Frank Baum. After nearly a decade of declining book sales, the twelfth book in Baum's Land of Oz series-and the last to be published in his lifetime-was a critical and commercial success that reinvigorated public interest in his iconic work.
In the safety of his palace in Winkie Country-where he was made Emperor after the Wizard of Oz gave...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Hannah's sister, Alexis, has been acting different lately. For one thing, she's constantly on her phone when she never used to care that much about it. But after Hannah discovers that Alexis has developed a relationship with a boy she met online, her strange behavior starts to make sense. What's worse, Alexis plans to skip out on college...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Presents new animals discovered during a ten year project of documenting sea life, describing new species of such creatures as jellyfish, octopuses, squids, sea worms, and crabs, found along coral reefs, ocean mountain ranges, and in the dark zone.
10) A Cut Too Far
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! I may be in trouble...but there's more to my story. School has never been fun for Chace. Because of his huge jaw and crooked teeth, he rarely gets through a day of classes without bullies like Ivan taunting him. Things worsen when Chace's mom starts dating an Iranian man and Ivan's harassment takes a racist turn. Chace has had...
11) Coriolanus
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Shakespeare’s tragic drama about a Roman general tested by rioting, war, rejection—and his own all-consuming anger.
Enraged by the withholding of food, the common people of the Roman Republic are rebelling against the elite. In this battle between plebeians and patricians, Caius Marcius has little patience for those he considers beneath him and his family.
After his military victory in the city...
Enraged by the withholding of food, the common people of the Roman Republic are rebelling against the elite. In this battle between plebeians and patricians, Caius Marcius has little patience for those he considers beneath him and his family.
After his military victory in the city...
12) True crime story
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"[This book] twists together transcripts, emails, and documents into an investigation of a missing college girl, also weaving in the mysteries of how the narrator 'Joseph Knox' came to be in possession of these files and what fate befell the original author, as well as why Knox might not be telling us everything he knows. Zoe Nolan disappeared from Manchester University in 2011. Her story was sad, certainly, but hardly sensational, Joseph Knox thought....
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"Sabriya has her whole summer planned...but those plans go out the window after a terrorist attack near her home. When the terrorist is assumed to be Muslim and Islamophobia grows, Sabriya turns to her online journal for comfort...Soon two more teens, Zakat and Farah, join Bri to run 'You Truly Assumed' and the three quickly form a strong friendship...When one of them is threatened, the search to find out who is behind it all begins, and their friendship...
14) Henry VI, Part 1
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The first play of Shakespeare's "War of the Roses Tetralogy", which includes "Henry VI, Part 2", "Henry VI, Part 3", and "Richard III", "Henry VI, Part 1" is set during the lifetime of King Henry VI and deals with the loss of England's French territories and the political events that lead to the War of the Roses. The play was, written sometime, before 1591 and is, among some of the Bard's earliest works. "Henry VI, Part 1" was, published in the "First...
15) Henry IV, Part 1
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The second play in William Shakespeare's tetralogy of plays which also includes "Richard II", "Henry IV, Part 2", and "Henry V", "Henry IV, Part 1" is believed to have been written no later than 1597. A history play, the drama concerns the unquiet reign of Henry Bolingbroke. Following the usurpation of the throne, Henry IV is plagued with guilt over his role in the imprisonment and death of King Richard II. In order to resolve himself of this internal...
16) Tracks
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Nick and Ava have become friends over the fact that they're the only upper classmen who still ride the bus to school. And every day, they see the same boy-who they call The Kid-walking along the train tracks, even when the weather is terrible or when he's clearly fighting a bad cold. When Nick notices the mysterious boy practically sprinting...
17) The Beast
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Alyssa Duncan is a beast on the soccer field. As the Copperheads' starting goalie, she might be the difference between a state title and total defeat--and she likes it that way. When a concussion takes Alyssa out of the lineup, her rising-star teammate Becca Miller takes over in goal. Becca turns out to be pretty good, too. And what seemed like a temporary change might not be so temporary after all. Will Alyssa heal in time for playoffs? And even...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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What's so great about California? Find out the top ten sites to see or things to do in the Golden State! Explore California's beaches, mountains, film studios, and colorful history. The California by Map feature shows where you'll find all the places covered in the book. A special section provides quick state facts such as the state motto, capital, population, animals, foods, and more. Take a fun-filled tour of all there is to discover in California....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Crack, crack...animal babies are hatched all over the place. Can you figure out who's who? Watercolor and collage illustrations depict close-up scenes of an egg or eggs about to hatch. The text hints at what the eggs contain: "Hidden in a rock cave/ Deep beneath the ocean waves/ Their mother wraps her long arms around/ To keep these eggs safe...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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You may know that Jennifer Lawrence stars as courageous Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games films. But did you know that Jennifer: grew up on a Kentucky horse farm? had to learn to skin a squirrel for her role in Winter's Bone? (Eeeew!) read all three Hunger Games books in four days—before she even knew she'd be playing Katniss? Want to know more about the life of this talented celebrity? Read on to learn all about Jen's childhood, ...