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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Description
In this trail-blazing novel on spiritual warfare, a prayerful pastor and a hard-boiled reporter compare notes and find themselves fighting a plot to subjugate the human race. A prayerful pastor and a hard-boiled reporter fight a plot to subjugate the human race.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.5 - AR Pts: 25
Description
"Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos. Beneath the surface of this enchanting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age.
This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision,...
This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms...
Author
Series
Kingdom volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible
Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom’s Dawn, Leinad and Tess, along with all the king’s people, must escape slavery by the powerful Lord Fairos. Kingdom’s Hope finds them free and arriving in the Chessington Valley. But when they forget the king, will Kergon and the Kessons capture them for good? After many years, Kingdom’s...
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Series
Kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible
Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom’s Dawn, Leinad and Tess, along with all the king’s people, must escape slavery by the powerful Lord Fairos. Kingdom’s Hope finds them free and arriving in the Chessington Valley . But when they forget the king, will Kergon and the Kessons capture them for good? After many years, Kingdom’s...
Author
Series
Kingdom volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible
Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom’s Dawn , Leinad and Tess, along with all the king’s people, must escape slavery by the powerful Lord Fairos. Kingdom’s Hope finds them free and arriving in the Chessington Valley . But when they forget the king, will Kergon and the Kessons capture them for good? After many years, Kingdom’s...
10) Kingdom's quest
Author
Series
Kingdom volume 5
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
He was called to fulfill a mighty quest, filled with fierce battles.
A quest to bring hope to the kingdom…
Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of the evil Shadow Warriors, Sir Gavin is given a new name by the Prince to signify his new allegiance–to the cause of the one he once swore to kill. Called to share this message to everyone in the land of Arrethtrae, Sir Gavinaugh takes up his sword and embarks on an epic journey.
Winning hearts...
11) Kingdom's reign
Author
Series
Kingdom volume 6
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
An evil army masses against the Knights of the Prince, and they are outnumbered.
Only the King can save them…
While the Knights of the Prince train in the Kingdom Across the Sea, the Dark Knight, Lucius, reigns in Arrethtrae with complete authority. But when a small group of loyalists swears allegiance to the King, the Prince returns, and in a mighty battle, Lucius and the Shadow Warriors are vanquished and imprisoned in the Wasteland.
Peace and...
13) Saint maybe
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1991
Description
Ian Bedloe is the ideal teenage son, leading a cheery, apple-pie life with his family in Baltimore. That is, until a careless and vicious rumor leads to a devastating tragedy. Imploding from guilt, Ian believes he is the one responsible for the tragedy. No longer a star athlete with a bright future, and desperately searching for salvation, he stumbles across a storefront with a neon sign that simply reads: CHURCH OF THE SECOND CHANCE. Ian has always...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
An American classic widely considered to be one of the best novels of the 20th century In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour becomes the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. While the area is American by law, it's still Mexican and Indian by custom and belief. During the years that follow, Latour tirelessly but gently spreads his faith while facing external and internal obstacles. Loosely based on the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy and the construction of the Cathedral...
15) Kingdom's call
Author
Series
Kingdom volume 4
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Being a man of his word, Sir Gavin has vowed to destroy the followers of the man alleging to be the King's son. But when Sir Gavin has a remarkable encounter with the prince, it changes his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Lose yourself in this captivating tale of love and betrayal, lies and forgiveness, from New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain.
Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty in the emergency room of North Carolina's Outer Banks Hospital when a gunshot victim is brought in. Midway through the desperate effort to save the young woman's life, Olivia realizes who she is-Annie O'Neill. The woman Olivia's husband, Paul, is in love with.
When Annie dies...
17) Ulysses
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Description
This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.
18) The sea wolf
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Description
Life of a Norwegian sealing schooner and a grim picture of a sailor who is a combination of savage and superman.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The great scholar Heironymus believes that he knows everything there is to know, until a hair which he cannot identify is carried to him on the the wind and he must search the globe to find its source.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story od Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
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