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21) Oliver Twist
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A story of a young orphan boy who gets involved with a gang of pickpockets in 19th Century London. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr. Brownlow is only the beginning of a series of adventures that lead him to the promise of a better life.
22) Solaris
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Aboard a lonely space station orbiting a mysterious planet, terrified crewmembers are experiencing a host of strange phenomena.
Description
Dorothy Gale is a simple girl in rural Kansas who writes children's books based on the land of Oz created by her grandfather. Her mundane life is turned upside down when she receives an offer from a big New York agency to represent her books. In New York, Dorothy soon realizes her books, and her grandfather's stories, are based in reality. The magical world of Oz and all of its inhabitants are very real and they are coming to New York City!
24) Stone fox
Pub. Date
1987
Description
Little Willy must win a dog sled race in order to save his grandfather's cattle ranch.
Series
American Girl volume Kit Kittredge
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.
27) World War Z
Description
"Former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane ... [is] in a race against time to save both his family and the world from a pandemic that is toppling governments and threatening to destroy humanity itself"--Container.
Description
Miss Matty's house is full of life and bustle. Her dream of having a child in the house has been realized in the birth of Tilly, daughter of her maid Martha and carpenter Jem. Elsewhere, the shadow of the railway still looms, but the line has been halted five miles outside Cranford, a disaster as far as Captain Brown is concerned. Meanwhile, as Mr. Buxton returns to town with his son, William, and his niece, Erminia, Miss Matty becomes concerned about...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In the town of Kingsbridge during the middle of the twelfth century, the lives of those who are working to build the most amazing Gothic cathedral in the world become entwined through their ambitions, loves, and tribulations. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Midshipman Horatio Hornblower joins the British fleet just as the French Revolution is about to change European history. But he has worries closer to home as he incurs the wrath of a shipmate named Simpson, a bully who everyone else avoids and placates. Events lead to a duel, but one of Hornblower's mates takes his place and is killed. At war with France, Hornblower and Simpson are assigned different ships, but are reunited when Simpson's ship is...
32) The Eagle
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Twenty years after the disappearance of his father and the Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila travels from Rome to solve the mystery, retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, and restore his father's honor.
33) The painted veil
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
When Kitty Fane's bacteriologisy husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic hoping that she will die.
34) The Jungle book
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by the wild animals of the jungle.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Michael is a guardian angel who appears to children when they need an imaginary friend. From the ages of five to ten-years old, Jane Claremont was one of his charges. Now she's about to marry TV series star Hugh Danderford. Michael appears to Jane again but neither one of them know why. Soon Michael falls in love with Jane and gradually seduces her. Now Jane must decide if she'll remain committed to Hugh, or stay with Michael.
36) Marnie
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar is caught. Her captor impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in hopes of helping her and discovering the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
12-year-old Oscar is a fragile and bullied boy who finds love and revenge when he meets Eli. Eli is a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends. She has moved into his building. Oscar does not know that she and her father are vampires. When strange disappearances and murders start happening in the town, suspicions mount from her neighbors and police. Eli must move on to stay alive or stay to help Oscar the only way she knows how.
38) Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective, is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, but she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
By the time Danielle is eight years old, her mother and father have died and she has been left in the care of her new stepmother. the baroness and her two daughters make Danielle their servant, giving her the nickname Cindersoot and ordering her every day to chop firewood, tend the grounds, and clean the manor house. When Prince Henry of France begins a search for a wife, the baroness intends to make sure her beautiful daughter Marguerite becomes...
40) Amish grace
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When a tragedy takes the lives of five Amish schoolgirls in Pennsylvania, Ida, the mother of one of the girls, faces a profound test of faith. As she begins to feel like an outsider within her own community, Ida must decide whether or not to stay with the Amish, and her beloved husband.
