Pamela Garelick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
"The wayward traveler -- Lemuel Gulliver -- ends up on a series of bizarrely populated islands. First he is a giant among little people, but then sees the situation reversed when he's surrounded by giants twelve times his size. Next he finds himself in the clouds, in a society of devoted but ultimately hapless mathematicians. Lastly, his journey brings him to an island where incredibly noble horses must deal with a race of uncouth, reviled ape-men:...
2) The capture
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A classic hero mythology about the fight between good and evil, Guardians of Ga'Hoole is filled with adventure, suspense, and heart.
Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, evil that threatens to shatter Tyto's peace and change the course of Soren's life forever.Soren is captured and taken to a dark and forbidding canyon. It's called an orphanage, but Soren believes it's...
3) The journey
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The second book in the GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE series continues this classic hero mythology about the battle between good and evil. This book chronicles Soren's quest for nobility.In the second book in the GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE series, Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger travel to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythical place where an order of owls rises each night to perform noble deeds. Soren and his group are seeking help to fight the evil they discovered
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"Soren's sister, Eglantine, is falling under the spell of a strange nightly dream. Then, just as Soren notices her trancelike state, Eglantine disappears, and the dreams become a deadly waking nightmare that puts the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole in terrible danger."--P. [4] of cover.
6) The rescue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Ever since Soren was kidnapped and taken to the St. Aegolius School for Orphaned Owls, he has longed to see his sister, Eglantine, again. Now Eglantine is back in Soren's life, but she's been through an ordeal too terrible for words. And Ezylryb, Soren's mentor, has disappeared. Deep within Soren's gizzard, something more powerful than knowledge tells him there's a connection between these mysterious events. In order to rescue Ezylryb, Soren embarks...
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Language
English
Description
"In 1920s England, a young woman of limited means and even less experience confronts the ghost of a mysterious serving maid.... Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed...
8) The siege
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"Enraged by his clash with Soren and driven by and all-consuming desire for power, Kludd and his group, the Pure Ones, launch an attack upon the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The noble owls who live there must fight fiercely to protect their resources and defend their honor."--P. 4 cover.
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 148
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, 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...
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Language
English
Description
Mrs. Hawkins, a buxom young war widow, spends her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher ("of very good books") and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington rooming-house. At work and at home Mrs. Hawkins soon uncovers evil-- shady literary doings and a deadly enemy, anonymous letters, blackmail, and suicide. Mrs. Hawkins confidently sets about putting things to order, little imagining the mayhem which would ensue. Now decades...
11) The burning
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies against the Pure Ones who are about to launch another deadly attack against the great tree.
12) The hatchling
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nyroc must decide whether to lead the evil Pure Ones against the good owls or to fight on the side of the good ones.
13) The outcast
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nyroc has glimpsed a new destiny in the of his father's bones. In search of that destiny leaves for The Beyond the Beyond.
14) To be a king
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and searches for the ideal place to establish an order of free owls.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While Coryn and his companions journey to a wintery realm where mysterious owls live, the king becomes the target of an assassination plot and it is up to Primrose and Eglantine to save him.
17) The golden tree
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The golden age which is expected from the Great Ga'Hoole Tree turns gradually worse as the owls' young king hunts for the truth about his ancestry.
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Series
Language
English
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The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession delivers a brilliant and thought-provoking novel about the 1960s and how the psychology, science, religion, ethics, and radicalism of the times affected ordinary lives.
“Rich, acerbic, wise.... [Byatt] tackles nothing less than what it means to be human.” —Vogue
Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a...
“Rich, acerbic, wise.... [Byatt] tackles nothing less than what it means to be human.” —Vogue
Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a...
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole ; 1-3
Language
English
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Description
This box set contains the first three books by Kathryn Lasky, which are the basis of the animated movie, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.
The Capture, Book One. Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, and Soren is captured and imprisoned in a dark canyon where there is a mysterious school. It's called an orphanage, but Soren believes it's something far
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English
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"A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres, Agnès Morel can be found cleaning the famed medieval cathedral each morning. No one knows where she came from or why. Not Abbé Paul, who discovered her sleeping on the porch twenty years ago, and not Alain Fleury, the irreverent young restorer who works alongside her each day. She has transformed each of their lives in her own subtle way, yet no one suspects the dark secret Agnès is hiding."...
