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21) The odyssey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged retelling of Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son scheme to protect his throne.
22) Little men
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged version of the Louisa May Alcott novel that follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
23) Peter Pan
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged retelling of the adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.
26) Pinocchio
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged retelling of the adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grows whenever he tells a lie. Includes discussion questions.
27) Animal stories
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
An abridged retelling of a dozen stories about animals from well-known authors.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged version of Kate Douglas Wiggin's classic story of talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca's adventures after she leaves her home at Sunnybrook Farm to go live in town with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental.
32) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
34) The jungle book
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged retelling of the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Includes discussion questions.
37) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged sequel to "Anne of Green Gables" in which sixteen-year-old Anne works as a school teacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged version of the tale of the four Musketeers' final adventure during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.