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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead,they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anneturns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear.Manga Classics® is proud to be the only authorized manga adaption of Anne of Green Gables by the Heirs of L.M. Montgomery. This trade paperback volume presents a...
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda,...
4) Jane Eyre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young English woman who accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
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Language
English
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Description
Adapted for stage and screen, loved by millions, Victor Hugo's classic novel of love & tragedy during the French Revolution is reborn in this fantastic new manga edition! The illustrations brings to life the tragic stories of Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, and the beautiful Fantine, in this epic adaptation of Les Miserables!
Author
Series
Black butler volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
First Yen Press Edition.
Physical Desc
184 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just a stone's throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom,and its master, one Ciel Phantomhive. Earl Phantomhive is a giant in the world of commerce, Queen Victoria's faithful servant, and a slip of a twelve-year old boy. Fortunately, his loyal butler, Sebastian, is ever at his side, ready to carry out the young master's wishes.
Author
Series
Black butler volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Yen Press ed.
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When London's Whitechapel is terrorized by Jack the Ripper's killing spree, Queen Victoria commands young earl Ciel Phantomhive and his extraordinary butler Sebastian to investigate, which leads to a surprise that shatters a precious truth for Ciel.
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Language
English
Description
National Book Award-winner Neal Shusterman and acclaimed artist Andres Vera Martinez present a multidimensional exploration of the Holocaust, delivered through surreal visions and a textured canvas of heroism and hope.
Prepare yourself for an unforgettable journey into impossible and wondrous things that never happened, set against a backdrop of impossible, unthinkable things that did. Brilliant storytelling plunges readers into one of the darkest...
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Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
401 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The victim of a miscarriage of justice, the Count of Monte Cristo is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Alexandre Dumas' novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated...
11) Banned book club
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Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's...
12) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
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Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
181 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"14-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead... Book One in the series includes three thrilling mysteries: The...