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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 53
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of...
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English
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First published in 1936, this classic novel has as its theme the struggle of the individual against the state. It portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman's passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state. It is a not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. The personal account of a fugitive slave's privation and sufferings and his campaigns for Negro emancipation. This dramatic autobiography of the...
12) Skeleton crew
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Signet book volume AE 6861
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror.
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Signet
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2011.
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English
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Trapped in the forsaken town of Dead River, where the townsfolk are out for his blood and for his gold, half-breed Yakima Henry, desperate to find a doctor to care for his wounded friend, must weather the oncoming storm, as well as a killer.