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The story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans.--From publisher description.
2) Frankenstein
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A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the story.
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JEF - Classic Literature
JEF - Historical Fiction - Adults
NPM - 12th grade AP Literature & Composition 2024 Summer Reading
JEF - Historical Fiction - Adults
NPM - 12th grade AP Literature & Composition 2024 Summer Reading
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Great Expectations, Charles Dickens' most acclaimed and popular novel, tells the story of Pip, a young orphan, who narrates the tale. Pip grows up in the marshlands of Kent, where he lives with his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery.While visiting his family members' graves in the churchyard, the young Pip encounters Abel Magwitch, an escaped convict. Pip brings him food and a file, but the fugitive and Compeyson-his...
5) The ritual
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[2010]
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An ambitious young reporter vows to uncover the truth about the football team's secret initiation ceremony.
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2004.
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Hal works at the zoo every day and his life isn't exciting until he meets Tim. Tim is a movie star. He has a difficult life, and he is unhappy until he meets Hal. But when they meet, and agree to change places, interesting things start to happen. And, by changing places, the two men learn what is truly important in their lives.
10) No way to run
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[2010]
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A jewelry store robber's life is changed after he meets a disabled young woman who witnessed his crime.
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[2010]
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Charlie D is the host of a successful late-night radio call-in show. His listeners have a particularly intimate relationship with him and often reveal much about themselves, confident that he will honor their trust and that he can save them. But someone is killing some of Charlie D's favorite listeners.
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Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also, as the Introduction to this edition reveals, one of the most potent revenge narratives. Its ingenious narrative structure, vivid evocation of landscape, and the extraordinary power of its depiction of love and hatred have given it a unique place in English literature. The passionate tale of Catherine and Heathcliff is here presented in a new edition that...
13) A pretty face
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2003.
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Zoe Baker works in a bookstore. She also likes acting, and she has a part in the play Romeo and Juliet. Mike Morrison writes about the play for the newspaper. What does he write about Zoe? Is Zoe a good actress... or is she just 'a pretty face'? What does Zoe think when she reads the newspaper? What does she do?
14) Empty eyes
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[2010]
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There's something odd about the attendants at the Painted Desert Resort. Brad can't shake the feeling that they never stop watching him.
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2009.
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1a. ed., 1st ed.
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Español
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Eight-year-old Isabela Huffman cannot stop getting herself into trouble while on vacation with her mother in Guanajuato, Mexico. She sings on the bus, screams like a baby when she puts chile powder on her mango, convinces her mother to buy new shoes for a big family, and more.
18) Dracula
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Oxford bookworms library volume Stage 2, Fantasy & horror
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2007.
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English
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