Title: Buying Some Gloves
Series: 洋販ラダーシリーズLevel 1 YL 2.0-3.5
Author: Nankichi, Niimi 新美南吉
Genre: CL
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Headwords: 1000
Total Word Count: 1,630
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Summary: ある朝起きると、外は雪景色。思い切り外で遊ぶと、雪の冷たさで両手が真っ赤に。かわいそうに思った母さん狐は、町に手袋を買いに行くことを思いつきますが、人間のことを思うと足がすくんでしまいます……。立場が異なるもの同士の心の交流を描いた新美南吉の名作童話。

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Title: Nicholas Nickleby
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 4 (PAR4)
Author: Dickens, Charles
Genre: CL
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Headwords: 1700
Total Word Count: 18,766
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Summary: Nicholas Nickleby is a kind man who works at a cruel school full of poor, hungry children. Can he ever find happiness in a world where stupid, greedy people have all the power and brave, honest people have nothing? Now a major film.

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Title: The Dream and Other Stories
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 4 (PAR4)
Author: du Maurier, Daphne & Others
Genre: CS
YL:
Headwords: 1700
Total Word Count: 16,504
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Summary: Life on Mars, a strange dream, and attacks by murderous birds these are just some of the subjects of these enjoyable short stories. They will amuse and shock you.

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Title: Three Great Plays of Shakespeare
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 4 (PAR4)
Author: Shakespeare, William
Genre: CL
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Headwords: 1700
Total Word Count: 15,147
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Summary: Romeo and Juliet are in love, but their families are enemies. In desperation, they marry in secret but tragedy unfolds ... Macbeth is to be King of Scotland but at what cost? King Lear divides his kingdom between his daughters with unexpected consequences.

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Title: The Pearl
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 3 (PAR3)
Author: Steinbeck, John
Genre: CL
YL:
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 13,824
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Summary: Kino finds a large pearl, which he thinks will save his family from poverty. But the pearl is what they think they want instead of what they need. The misfortune it brings changes the life of the family forever.

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Title: Anne of Green Gables
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (PAR2)
Author: Montgomery, L M
Genre: CL
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Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 7,856
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Summary: The Cuthberts ask the orphanage for a boy to help at their farm, but a little girl steps off the train. Anne causes chaos at Green Gables, but her good nature wins everyone's heart.

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Title: Little Women
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 1 (PAR1)
Author: Alcott, Louisa May
Genre: CL
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Headwords: 300
Total Word Count: 3,552
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Summary: The story of the four March sisters and their loves, problems and adventures is sometimes sad, often funny but always charming. Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in 1868. It is also a film starring Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon.

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Title: The Crown
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 1 (PAR1)
Author: James, M R
Genre: CL
YL:
Headwords: 300
Total Word Count: 3,937
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Summary: What is the crown, and why is it important for England? Who is William Agers? In this gripping mystery, the answers are all in Seaburgh.

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Title: Theseus and the Minotaur
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 1 (PAR1)
Author: Beatty, Ken
Genre: CL
YL:
Headwords: 300
Total Word Count: 1,558
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Summary: Theseus is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, but he is the son of King Aegeus of Athens too. Every year the Minotaur eats people from Athens. Theseus is strong and angry, but he is only a young man. Can he kill the Minotaur?

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