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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 10
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This biography won the Newbery Medal for the year in which it was first published. Since then it has found thousands upon thousands of readers who have delighted in its vivid portrayal of Louisa May Alcott and her eventful career. With this new edition, issued in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the publication of LITTLE WOMEN, many more readers will meet the real Louisa. Here she is, acting in her own play in the barn behind the Alcott home,...
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©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. It wasn't until after she was sixty that Laura Ingalls Wilder started chronicling those times, which resulted in nine Little House books, a hit TV series that ran for eight years, and her own permanent place as a heroine of the American West"--
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[2017]
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Stepping into the World of Mark Twain offers an exciting nonfiction reader that builds critical reading skills while students are immersed in engaging subject area content. This text is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension with different learner types. Stepping into the World of Mark Twain features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America. An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
12) Mark Twain
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of a great American humorist who had also been a printer, steamboat captain, news reporter, gold miner, and lecturer in a white linen suit.
13) Edgar Allan Poe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Presents the life of the nineteenth-century American author famous for his detective stories, horror stories, and poetry.
15) Mark Twain
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Discusses the life of the famed nineteenth-century author from his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, through his careers as journalist, riverboat pilot, soldier, prospector, and humorist.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
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A biography of author Mark Twain. Describes growing up on the Mississippi River and becoming a steamboat pilot. Discusses how he moved West during the Gold Rush and, finding no gold, became a journalist and then an author.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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Filled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe's ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia family who worked as tombstone merchants. In 1827 he enlisted in the Army and subsequently failed out of West Point. His first published story, The Raven, was a huge success, but his joy was overshadowed by the death of his wife. Poe devoted his life...