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Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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Series
Mairelon novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The life of Kim, a street urchin living by her wits in the mean streets of London, changes after she meets Mairelon the traveling magician.
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Shakespeare stealer volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquires a new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.
6) Fen gold
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Series
Wickit chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"The hot summer has brought several kinds of trouble to the monastery at Wickit, and Pip, the orphan, and Perfect, the stone gargoyle, find themselves up to their eyebrows in it all! What is the king's man really doing at Wickit? Will the Black Bog give up its secrets? Will the beautiful Norse girl find John Shortleg's long-lost buried treasure"--P. [4] of cover.
7) Oliver Twist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense...