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1) Black Beauty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
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First published in 1877. Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead, describes his idyllic days on a country squire's estate and his harsh fate as a London cab horse.
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Married as a child bride to Nathan, a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the fields with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With fortitude and courage, she fights poverty and disaster.
Written over 70 years ago, Nectar in a Sieve is as relevant now as when it was first published. The story of Rukmani and Nathan is the story of many Indian farmers yesterday and today....
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There's no better time to rediscover James Bond.
The Castle of Death shelters a poisoned garden, curated by a criminal mastermind, and set atop a rocky Japanese island.
Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld but M. gives him one last chance. To save his job, James Bond needs to infiltrate and destroy the Castle of Death in exchange for top-secret Japanese intelligence.
007 must learn the skills of ninja warriors...
6) Edgar Allan
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The story of a Black twelve-year-old named Edgar Allan, and what happens when he is adopted by a middle-class white family.
A novel for young readers.
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Signet book volume AE 4764
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An official Signet movie tie-in, this book contains four of Stephen King's most popular novellas. "Apt Pupil", one of the stories in this work, is scheduled to be released in early 1998 by Phoenix Pictures in movie theaters nationwide. Directed by Bryan Singer ("The Usual Suspects"), it stars David Schwimmer, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joe Morton, Kevini Pollack, and Elias Koteas. Two other stories from this book, "The Body" and "Rita Hayworth" and...
8) I, Quantrill
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Bloody Bill Quantrill, one of the most notorious and brutal guerrilla fighters for the South in the Civil War, relates his side of the story, detailing his many murderous exploits, including his hell-raising days with Frank and Jesse James.
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Robert Frost, Claudio Arrau, John Lardner, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Bobby Thomson, Al Rosen, Jascha Heifetz, and other heroic figures in their years of glory, in their times of trial. This is a book about people to be remembered, and what it was like in America at a very special time.
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