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Rip Van Winkle & the Legend of Sleepy Hollow: In the first of these stories, Rip Van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets a headless rider in the middle of a dark night. These two classic tales of the supernatural by Washington Irving have been popular for nearly two hundred years.
A pretty face: Zoe Baker works in a bookstore....
84) Mulan
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Mulan: When the Emperor calls every man to join the army and fight the enemy, Mulan's father is old and ill, and cannot go. Wearing men's clothes and riding a horse, Mulan leaves her family and fights bravely for the Emperor in her father's place. She is soon a hero for all the soldiers in the Chinese army. One of them, Ye Ming, is her best friend. But does he know that she is a woman? And can Mulan fall in love with a friend?
Changing places: Hal...
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What happens when a man lives his life backwards, or a family owns a diamond as big as the Ritz Hotel? How can a boring girl become more popular, a careless young woman become more sensible, or a cut-glass bowl destroy a married woman's life? What does a young man do to save the girl that he likes from an evil ghost, or to forget old feelings for a woman when she marries another man? Read this collection of short stories by one of America's finest...
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A dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England, The scarlet letter revolves around a forbidden act of passion that alters the lives of three members of a Puritan community: Hester Prynne, who is forced to wear the letter "A" and bears the punishment of her sin in humble silence; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected minister who is tormented by hidden guilt; and the malevolent Roger Chillingworth, Hester's vengeful husband....
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"Stories and games will help children solidify their reading comprehension skills, explore storytelling, and learn about everything from U.S. Presidents to animals and nature. Explore works of fiction and non-fiction ; Expand vocabulary ; Increase reading comprehension ; Strengthen critical thinking skills"--Publisher description.
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"These interactive books filled with engaging characters and stories will help readers in the 100L-220L range improve reading comprehension skills, build confidence, and advance to more difficult texts. Lexile Measures make it easy to match your reader to text at their current reading level. This pack offers texts at an average Kindergarten through 2nd grade reading level equivalent. Listening while reading enables people to understand texts higher...
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"These interactive books with a strong focus on science will help readers in the 360L-500L range improve reading comprehension skills, build confidence, and advance to more difficult texts. Lexile Measures make it easy to match your reader to text at their current reading level. This pack offers texts at an average 3rd grade reading level equivalent. Listening while reading enables people to understand texts higher than their tested Lexile reading...
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"While advancing their reading and writing skills to the next level, kids will have fun exploring games, traveling through new worlds, and embarking on reading adventures. - Practice phonics - Learn how to spell - Focus on early reading and writing skills - Explore interactive stories" - Publisher description.
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"Favorite Dr. Seuss characters like Sam-I-Am, Horton, and more, come to life in these engaging and interactive digital book apps, with new ways to explore these Dr. Seuss classic titles. Encourage literacy skills with highlighted narration; Follow along with three fun ways to read; Learn new vocabulary with tappable text; Tap objects to hear their name read aloud"--
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"Favorite Dr. Seuss characters come to life in these engaging and interactive digital book apps, with new ways to explore these Dr. Seuss classic titles. Encourage literacy skills with highlighted narration; Follow along with three fun ways to read; Learn new vocabulary with tappable text; Tap objects to hear their name read aloud."--
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