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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
2) The Aeneid
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Language
English
Description
Aeneas appears in The Illiad in vague snatches and starts as a traveling warrior of great piety who was loosely connected to the foundation of Rome. Virgil weaves these fragments into a powerful myth about the founding of Rome in The Aeneid. Aeneas travels from his native Troy to Italy then wages victorious war upon the Latins.
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English
Description
"This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original translations. At a time when the association of Islam with violence dominates headlines, this beautiful collection offers us a chance to see a radically different face of the Islamic tradition. It traces a soaring, poetic, popular tradition that celebrates love for both humanity and the Divine as the ultimate...
6) The Odyssey
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Language
English
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"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
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The Complete Sagas of Icelanders volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Sagas of Icelanders are forty narratives of adventure and conflict, set in the Viking Age but written down in the vernacular by anonymous authors in Iceland several hundred years later, during the 13th and 14th centuries. Their action spans the whole world known to the Vikings, but the stories mainly center on the unique society they founded in Iceland, depicting the men and women who settled there and their descendants. For sheer narrative artistry...
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The Complete Sagas of Icelanders volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Sagas of Icelanders are forty narratives of adventure and conflict, set in the Viking Age but written down in the vernacular by anonymous authors in Iceland several hundred years later, during the 13th and 14th centuries. Their action spans the whole world known to the Vikings, but the stories mainly center on the unique society they founded in Iceland, depicting the men and women who settled there and their descendants. For sheer narrative artistry...
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The Complete Sagas of Icelanders volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Sagas of Icelanders are forty narratives of adventure and conflict, set in the Viking Age but written down in the vernacular by anonymous authors in Iceland several hundred years later, during the 13th and 14th centuries. Their action spans the whole world known to the Vikings, but the stories mainly center on the unique society they founded in Iceland, depicting the men and women who settled there and their descendants. For sheer narrative artistry...
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The Complete Sagas of Icelanders volume 5
Language
English
Description
The Sagas of Icelanders are forty narratives of adventure and conflict, set in the Viking Age but written down in the vernacular by anonymous authors in Iceland several hundred years later, during the 13th and 14th centuries. Their action spans the whole world known to the Vikings, but the stories mainly center on the unique society they founded in Iceland, depicting the men and women who settled there and their descendants. For sheer narrative artistry...
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Series
The Complete Sagas of Icelanders volume 4
Language
English
Description
The Sagas of Icelanders are forty narratives of adventure and conflict, set in the Viking Age but written down in the vernacular by anonymous authors in Iceland several hundred years later, during the 13th and 14th centuries. Their action spans the whole world known to the Vikings, but the stories mainly center on the unique society they founded in Iceland, depicting the men and women who settled there and their descendants. For sheer narrative artistry...
14) Psyren: vol.16
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Language
English
Description
Ageha Yoshina just got transported to a warped alternate dimension where you've got to fight your way back to our world--or die trying. In this final volume, Ageha's fellow Psionists and the Elmore Wood gang attack W.I.S.E's capital to rescue their friends, and Kyle and the others find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives against the Star Commanders. Fortunately, the long lost Oboro appears just in time, as do Matsuri and Kagetora, who...
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold volume 1
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English
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"If you could go back, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed....
16) Pokemon XY, #11
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English
Description
X was a Pok?mon Trainer child prodigy. But now he?s depressed and hides in his room avoiding everyone?including his best friend Y. An attack on their hometown by Legendary Pok?mon Xerneas and Yveltal, led by Team Flare, forces X outside? Now what?.
Series
Disney Kilala princess volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Kilala awakens a sleeping prince named Rei, she magically gains the power of the princesses! But her friend Erica is kidnapped, so she and Rei must set off on a quest to rescue her! The stories are filled with the most popular Disney princesses-- Ariel, Cinderella, Jasmine, Snow White, and Belle!
19) Pokemon XY, #12
Language
English
Description
X was a Pok?mon Trainer child prodigy. But now he?s depressed and hides in his room avoiding everyone?including his best friend Y. An attack on their hometown by Legendary Pok?mon Xerneas and Yveltal, led by Team Flare, forces X outside? Now what?
20) The Upanishads
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Among the oldest of India’s spiritual texts, the Upanishads are records of intensive question-and-answer sessions given by illumined sages to their students – in ashrams, at family gatherings, in a royal court, and in the kingdom of Death. The sages share flashes of insight, extraordinary visions, the results of their investigation into consciousness itself.
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