Showing posts with label PAR2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PAR2. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Title: Anne of Green Gables
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (PAR2)
Author: Montgomery, L M
Genre: CL
YL:
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: Another World
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (PAR2)
Author: O'Reilly, Elaine
Genre: SF
YL:
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 5,054
Rating:


Summary: For BZXY741, a student, life in Eden City seems perfect. But one day he meets Eve, a girl who shows him that there is another world ... An intriguing science fiction story.

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Title: Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (PAR2)
Author: Walsh, Fran & Boyens, Philippa & Jackson, Peter
Genre:
AD
YL:
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 11,277
Rating:


Summary: Ann Darrow is an actor with no work and no money. Carl Denham wants to make a movie but not in the United States. A long, long way from New York there is an island. and on that island lives the giant King Kong. When Carl, Ann, and the other actors arrive, Kong gets very, very angry. Who will live and who will die?

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Title: Nelson Mandela
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (PAR2)
Author: Degnan-Veness, Coleen
Genre: BI
YL:
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 5,416
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Summary: Nelson Mandela's life is the story of a country boy and his fight for the black people of South Africa. The extraordinary story of a great man, a freedom fighter and one of the world's most important leaders.

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Title: The Call of the Wild
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (PAR2)
Author: London, Jack
Genre:
AD
YL:
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 9,280
Rating:




Summary: Buck is a strong, intelligent dog who moves from an easy life in California to the Klondike. Life is tough in the cold north of Canada and Buck has to learn many hard lessons to survive. But can he ever be happy there?

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Title: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (PAR2)
Author: Degnan-Veness, Coleen
Genre:
FA
YL:
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 8,038
Rating:




Summary: Everybody in Halloweentown loves Halloween but not Jack Skellington. Every year he has to sing the same scary songs and do the same dangerous dances. He is bored with them. Then, one day, he visits Christmastown and he has an idea. Why can't the vampires, witches, and skeletons of Halloweentown celebrate Christmas, too their way?

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