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ENJOY THE GREAT OUTDOORS FROM INDOORS
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Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...
7) Black Beauty
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English
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
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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...
11) Silver
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1988.
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English
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Even though he is the runt of the litter from her father's prize sled-racing dog, ten-year-old Rachel plans to train her puppy to become a champion racer and determines to track him down when he mysteriously disappears.
17) What is sound?
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[1973]
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English
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Discusses the properties of sound and the natural and man-made instruments that produce it.
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