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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for Grades 4-6

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Classics | Fiction | Historical

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Laddie, A True Blue Story

Loosely based on Stratton-Porter’s own childhood, Laddie is a double tale — the classic poor-boy/rich-girl romance and the story of a child of nature and her idyllic childhood.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for Grades 9-12

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Classics | Fiction | Plays

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Doll’s House, A

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A Doll’s House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on stage. The play ushered in a new social era and “exploded like a bomb into contemporary life”.

The Student Edition contains these exclusive features:

· A chronology of the playwright’s life and work

· An introduction giving the background of the play

· Commentary on themes, characters. language and style

· Notes on individual words and phrases in the text

· Questions for further study

· Bibliography for further reading.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 5-9 Grade

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Jack and Jill

When best friends, Jack and Jill, tumble off their sled, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months. Their parents fill their days with the joys of Christmas preparations, a theatrical production and many other imaginative events.

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Lexile/Reading Level
690L

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Classics | Fantasy | Fiction

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Bambi (Bambi #1)

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The Prince of the Forest
Bambi’s life in the woods begins happily. There are forest animals to play with — Friend Hare, the chattery squirrel, the noisy screech owl, and Bambi’s twin cousins, frail Gobo and beautiful Faline.
But winter comes, and Bambi learns that the woods hold danger — and things he doesn’t understand. The first snowfall makes food hard to find. Bambi’s father, a handsome stag, roams the forest, but leaves Bambi and his mother alone.
Then there is Man. He comes to the forest with weapons that can wound an animal. He does terrible things to Gobo, to Bambi’s mother, and even to Bambi. But He can’t keep Bambi from growing into a handsome stag himself, and becoming…the Prince of the Forest.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-8 Grade

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Classics | Fiction

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Bell Family (Bell Family #1)

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‘Well, little people, what’s the news?’

Meet the big, happy Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks. Father is a reverend, Mother is as kind as kind can be. Then there’s all the children – practical Paul, dancing Jane, mischievous Ginnie, and finally the baby of the family, Angus, whose ambition is to own a private zoo (he has already begun with his six boxes of caterpillars). And not forgetting Esau, a sure fire competitor for the most beautiful dog in Britain.

Follow their eventful lives from tense auditions to birthday treats; from troubled times to hilarious escapades.

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Lexile/Reading Level
930L

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Classics | Fiction | Realistic

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Ballet Shoes (Shoes #1)

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Pauline, Petrova and Posy are orphans determined to help out their new family by joining the Children’s Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. But when they vow to make a name for themselves, they have no idea it’s going to be such hard work! They launch themselves into the world of show business, complete with working papers, the glare of the spotlight, and practice, practice, practice! Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. But practical Petrova finds she’d rather pilot a plane than perform a pirouette. Each girl must find the courage to follow her dream.

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Lexile/Reading Level
810L

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Dancing Shoes (Shoes #9)

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Wintle’s Little Wonders
When Cora Wintle goes to pick up her orphaned niece, Rachel, she discovers that Rachel’s adopted sister, Hilary, would be perfect for her dancing troupe. The only problem is that Hilary might be as good as her own precious daughter, Dulcie. Still, she’s determined to take sulky Rachel and sprightly Hilary and make them into Little Wonders.
But Rachel doesn’t want to be a Little Wonder. She can’t dance, and she’d rather die than wear the ruffly costume. Not only that, she doesn’t want Hilary to be a Little Wonder either. She had promised her mother that she would make sure Hilary danced with the Royal Ballet.
Nothing seems to be going as planned, until Rachel discovers her talent for acting. . . .

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Lexile/Reading Level
690L

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Children of the New Forest

In The Children of the New Forest, Marryat describes the trials and triumphs of the four Beverley children, orphaned during the English Civil War and forced to take refuge with a poor woodsman in the New Forest. This is the first annotated edition of a great children’s classic, which has retained its popularity since 1847.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 7-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Adventure | Classics | Fiction | Historical

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Under Drake’s Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main

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The struggle between Great Britain and Spain for supremacy of the high seas, as seen through the eyes of a sixteenth-century teenager, Ned Hearne. Along with three friends, young Ned is swept up in one adventure after another as he accompanies the daring English mariner Francis Drake on amazing voyages of discovery across the Pacific. An eyewitness to the great naval battle between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada, Ned has firsthand views of England’s rise as the world’s most powerful sea-going nation.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

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Adventure | Classics | Fiction | Historical

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Treasures of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru

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When the Spaniards came to Peru they tried to find out where the treasures of the Inca’s were hidden. They were cruel to the natives and made every attempt to find the treasure. Legend says that Incas leaving the area took the treasure and founded a secret city deep in the jungle. At the time of Henty’s story Peru was in a state of confusion, and incessant civil war. His two heroes found adventure, but did they find treasure?

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