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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant...
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"One of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring a new foreword by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko Jay Gatsby seemingly has everything. Everybody who's anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his West Egg, Long Island, mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing, and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby--young, handsome, fabulously rich--always seems...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Featuring a previously published author introduction, a personal foreword by his son, and a new introduction by his grandson, a definitive edition of the lauded World War I classic collects all thirty-nine of the author's alternate endings to offer new insights into his creative process. When a wounded American volunteer ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I falls in love with an English nurse they try to find some sanctuary in a world...