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Language
English
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David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The fate of Bartholomew Lampion, a gifted California child who loses his eyes to cancer at age three and miraculously regains his sight at thirteen, is entwined with the lives of a San Francisco girl born of rape and a man a thousand miles away who learns he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew.
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
7) The crossing
Author
Series
Border trilogy volume 2, 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy and Boyd Parham embark on a journey to return a she-wolf to the mountains of Mexico, only to find their destiny and fate.
8) The red pony
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Ownership of a red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death.
11) Meanwhile
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this choose-your-own adventure graphic novel, a boy stumbles on the laboratory of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, and a doomsday machine.
13) Mike
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Mike is the imaginary friend and projection of a repressed wish that won't go away until Floyd confronts both his greatest fear and greatest desire: to succeed."--Publisher's description.
17) Illusion
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nick Gautier is tired of his destiny. He doesnt want to be the son of a demon whos fated to end the world. Nor does he want to see another demon or other preternatural creature who wants to kill or enslave him. He just wants to be normal and have normal problems like everyone else"--Provided by publisher.
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