Michael York
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers. A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay. It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A worldwide best-seller when it was first published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty.
Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. Set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s, it is also the story of a land and a people driven by racial injustice. The book is written with such
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Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia, where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism. Sequel to "Prince Caspian."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch. Sequel to "The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'."
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Language
English
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Description
Just before sunrise on April 28, 1789, in the far reaches of the South Pacific, Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and three other men, armed with cutlasses, bayonets and a musket, apprehended Lieutenant William Bligh and placed him and eighteen officers and crewmen in a small boat. This mutiny on board His Majesty's armed transport Bounty impelled every man on a fateful course-- Bligh and his loyalists on a historic boat voyage, Christian and his followers...
9) Risk
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The thrills, the terror, come on a mile-a-minute. . . . A particularly ingenious . . . novel of suspense" from a New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
When he wakes in a pitch black room with his hands bound, Roland Britten, accountant and champion steeplechase jockey, knows he's entered a nightmare...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favorite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the King's Musketeers and is befriended by three of them, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with whom he embarks on a career of adventure and romance. Dumas is a brilliant...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. Their against-all-odds saga is brought to life through rare home movies, animation, dramatizations, and reminiscences from Don and many friends
13) Prince Caspian
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Four children help Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts to free Narnia from evil
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"At the height of World War II, a mysterious stranger calling himself Harrison makes a sinister proposotion to beautiful widow Stella. Take up with him, Harrison says, and he won't expose her lover as a traitor passing secrets to the enemy. Harrison's stunning accusation forces Stella to reexamine her love and life, with startling consequences"--Container
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
All seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia are now available together in a hardcover volume which includes an essay by C.S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children, where he explains precisely how the magic of Narnia first came to life.
17) Logan's run
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1976
Language
English
Description
In the year 2274, everyone lives a wonderful life until they're 30 years old-- then they're executed
18) Cabaret
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret
Publisher
Good Times Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The most wicked man on earth is Stone Alexander and the only person capable of thwarting him is his brother David, the President of the United States. Their showdown pits continent against continent, nation against nation and brother against brother in an all-out conflict between good and evil. David calls upon the power of God to sustain his resolve and to help him reveal the true nature of the Beast
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Language
English
Description
"A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense. Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now. A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize--for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind...