High

Daja's Book: Circle of Magic, Book 3 (Unabridged)

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The magic is out of control!

On a journey to Gold Ridge, the four young mages-in-training, Daja, Sandry, Tris, and Briar, find their special magics overlapping, sometimes in frightening and destructive ways. One burst of this combined magic leads Daja to create an astonishing vine made of living metal.

Author:

Tamora Pierce

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Lexile:

810L

Length:

05:19

Daja's Book: Circle of Magic, Book 3 (Unabridged)

Sandry's Book: Circle of Magic, Book 1 (Unabridged)

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This is a story about craft, about work, about magic, and most of all about the pleasure and difficulty of friendship. It begins when four young misfits with a talent for magic (and trouble!) arrive at Winding Circle Temple.

Author:

Tamora Pierce

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Lexile:

730L

Length:

08:24

Sandry's Book: Circle of Magic, Book 1 (Unabridged)

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl (Unabridged)

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"Is this my hidden Mutant Power, the ability to screw up absolutely any decent situation?"

Author:

Barry Lyga

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

710L

Length:

09:59

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl (Unabridged)

A Walk in the Woods (Abridged Nonfiction)

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"Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town." So begins Bill Bryson's hilarious book, A Walk in the Woods.

Author:

Bill Bryson

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1210L

Length:

05:59

A Walk in the Woods (Abridged Nonfiction)

Dragon's Heart: The Pit Dragon Chronicles, Volume 4 (Unabridged)

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Jakkin risks everything--his freedom, his dragon, even his life--to rescue his beloved in this stirring sequel to Dragon's Blood.

Author:

Jane Yolen

Grade Level:

High

Length:

10:47

Dragon's Heart: The Pit Dragon Chronicles, Volume 4 (Unabridged)

Dragon's Blood: The Pit Dragon Chronicles, Volume 1 (Unabridged)

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Jakkin, a 15-year-old bond boy, works with many others in Sarkkhan's worm farm/nursery on the desert planet Austar IV. Jakkin plans to steal a baby dragon from the farm to raise, hoping to train the dragon to fight and earn him enough money to buy himself out of bond, as well as the dragon's freedom.

Author:

Jane Yolen

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

870L

Length:

05:56

Dragon's Blood: The Pit Dragon Chronicles, Volume 1 (Unabridged)

Heart's Blood: The Pit Dragon Chronicles (Unabridged)

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Jakkin risks everything--his freedom, his dragon, even his life--to rescue his beloved in this stirring sequel to Dragon's Blood.

Author:

Jane Yolen

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

800L

Length:

07:26

Heart's Blood: The Pit Dragon Chronicles (Unabridged)

Twelve Angry Men (Dramatized)

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Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, 12 jurors deliberate the fate of a 19-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father. A seemingly open and shut case turns complicated, igniting passions and hidden prejudices.

Author:

Reginald Rose

Grade Level:

High

Length:

01:51

The Red Badge of Courage (Unabridged)

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This classic war novel is Stephen Crane's most famous work. It is considered by many critics to be the greatest war novel ever written. The setting is the civil war, and the hero (or anti-hero as it seems at first) is Henry Flemming, a young Northern boy who, swept up in the patriotic tide, joins the Union Army.

Author:

Stephen Crane

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

04:56

Flowers for Algernon (Unabridged)

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Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for mentally challenged adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain.

Author:

Daniel Keyes

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

910L

Length:

08:59

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