Title: Crime Story Collection
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 4 (PAR4)
Author: Paretsky, Sara & Others
Genre: CS
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Headwords: 1700
Total Word Count: 17,833
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Summary: Murder of a stranger or a relative, in a quiet English town or a crowded American city. It happens everywhere for all kinds of reasons. Short stories by some of the finest modern crime writers.

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Title: Secret Codes
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 4 (PAR4)
Author: Beatty, Ken
Genre: NF
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Headwords: 1700
Total Word Count: 18,395
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Summary: For thousands of years people have used codes and ciphers to keep secrets from people who will do anything to learn them. How did secret messages cause a queen to lose her head? How have lost languages finally been understood? How did one little-known language help a country win a war? Read this book and find out.

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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
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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: The Street Lawyer
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 4 (PAR4)
Author: Grisham, John
Genre: CS
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Headwords: 1700
Total Word Count: 16,407
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Summary: Michael is a successful lawyer with Drake and Sweeney. Then a homeless man attacks him. As Michael tries to discover who the man was, he uncovers a dangerous secret about Drake and Sweeney.

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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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Series: Penguin Readers Level 4 (PGR4) YL 4.0~5.0
Title: Three Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Genre: MY
YL: 4.0-5.0
Headwords: 1700
Total Word Count: 16,000
Rating: ***

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Summary: Why is a young woman terrified of a mysterious 'speckled band'? Are the five orange pips a sign that someone will soon die? And what about the banker who believes his son is a thief. Join the great detective Sherlock Holmes in solving the mysteries in these three thrilling stories.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 4 (PGR4) YL 4.0~5.0
Title: The Time Machine
Author: Wells, H. G.
Genre: SF
YL: 4.5
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 21,527
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Summary: The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened of the dark? And who or what has taken his time machine? Will the Time Traveller ever be able to return to the present?

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