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WRMS Honors Certification in AR
Students with exceptional reading abilities should challenge
themselves with our Honors Certification List. These books are
classics of the English language, and well-educated young adults
should become familiar with as many as possible. All of them are
testable in the AR® program. To earn Honors Certification, a
student must earn 100 quiz points.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Clemens
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6.6
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18
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Doyle
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8.8
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16
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Clemens
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8.1
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12
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Carrol
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7.8
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10
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All Creatures Great and Small
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Herriot
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6.8
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26
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Remarque
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6
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10
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All the King's Men
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Warren
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6.8
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36
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Animal Farm
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Orwell
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7.3
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5
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Anna Karenina
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Tolstoy
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9.6
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69
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Anne of Green Gables
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Montgomery
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7.3
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17
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Autobiography of Malcolm x
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Malcolm
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7.5
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32
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Brave New World
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Huxley
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7.5
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11
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Caine Mutiny
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Wouk
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6.4
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34
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Call of the Wild
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London
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8
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7
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Captains Courageous
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Kipling
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8
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9
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Clemens
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9.2
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21
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Count of Monte Cristo
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Dumas
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8.8
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34
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Crucible
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Miller
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4.9
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5
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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Paton
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6.2
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14
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David Copperfield
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Dickens
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9.5
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66
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Death be not Proud
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Gunther
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8
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8
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Cather
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7.9
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12
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Don Quixote de la Mancha
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Cervantes
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13.2
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91
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Dove
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Graham
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6
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10
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Stevenson
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9.5
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5
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Dracula
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Stoker
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6.6
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25
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Dune
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Herbert
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5.7
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28
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Emma
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Austen
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9.3
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20
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Fahrenheit Four Fifty One
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Bradbury
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5.2
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7
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Farewell To Arms, A
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Hemingway
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6
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13
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Hemingway
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5.8
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28
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Frankenstein
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Shelley
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12.4
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17
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Giants of the Earth
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Rolvaag
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8.4
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28
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Golden Compass, The
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Pullman
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7.1
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19
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Gone with the Wind
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Mitchell
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7.1
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71
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Good Earth
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Buck
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6.8
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19
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Grapes of Wrath
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Steinbeck
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4.9
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25
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Great Expectations
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Dickens
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9.2
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35
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Great Gatsby
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Fitzgerald
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7.3
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8
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Green Mansions
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Hudson
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7.8
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15
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Gulliver's Travels
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Swift
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10.9
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4
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Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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McCullers
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6.3
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19
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Hiroshima
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Hersey
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8.4
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9
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Hound of the Baskervilles
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Doyle
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8.3
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11
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House of Seven Gables
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Hawthorne
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11
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22
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Human Comedy
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Saroyen
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5.8
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8
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Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Hugo
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11.8
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38
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
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Craven
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6
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6
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I know why the Caged Bird Sings
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Angelou
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6.7
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13
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Invisible Man, The
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Ellison
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7.2
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30
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Iron Ring, The
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Alexander
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4.8
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10
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Ivanhoe
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Scott
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12.9
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40
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Jane Eyre
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Bronte
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7.9
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33
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Jane Goodall
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Senn
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6
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7
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Johnny Tremain
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Forbes
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5.9
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13
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Verne
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9.9
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17
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Jungle Book ( Books 1 & 2 )
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Kipling
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7.4
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20
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Jungle, The
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Sinclair
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8
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22
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Kidnapped
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Stevenson
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7.6
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14
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Killer Angels, The
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Shaara
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4.7
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15
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Kim
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Kipling
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7.7
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18
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Last of the Mohicans
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Cooper
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10.3
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29
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Les Miserables
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Hugo
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9.8
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105
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Life on the Mississippi
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Clemens
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9.1
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24
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Light in the Forest
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Richter
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5.5
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5
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Little Women
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Alcott
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7.9
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33
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Lord Jim
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Conrad
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9.1
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24
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Lord of the Flies
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Golding
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5
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9
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Lord of the Rings
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Tolkien
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Macbeth
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Shakespeare
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10.9
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4
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Memories of Anne Frank
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Gold
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6
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4
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Midsummer Night's Dream
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Shakespeare
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10.9
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3
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Midwife's Apprentice, The
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Cushman
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6
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3
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Miracle Worker, The
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Gibson
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5.2
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4
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Moby Dick
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Melville
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10.3
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42
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Murder on the Orient Express
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Christie
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6.2
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9
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Nordoff
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8.4
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22
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My Antonia
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Cather
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6.9
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44
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Narnia Series
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Lewis
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Never Cry Wolf
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Mowat
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8.9
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9
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Night
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Weisel
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4.4
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4
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Of Human Bondage
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Mangham
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8.3
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48
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Of Mice and Men
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Steinbeck
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4.5
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4
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Old Man and the Sea, The
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Hemingway
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5.1
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4
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Kesey
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6.2
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18
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Ordinary People
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Guest
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4.1
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9
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Our Town
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Wilder
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3.9
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3
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Pearl, The
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Steinbeck
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7.1
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4
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Pride and Prejudice
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Austen
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12
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27
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Rats Saw God
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Thomas
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7.4
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10
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Rebecca
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DuMaurier
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6.8
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28
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Red Badge of Courage
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Crane
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8
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8
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Robinson Crusoe
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DeFoe
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12.3
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27
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Romeo and Juliet
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Shakespeare
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12.5
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10
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Scarlet Letter
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Hawthorne
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11.7
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14
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Schindler's List
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Keneally
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8.6
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25
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Separate Peace
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Knowles
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6.9
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10
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Shade's Children
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Nix
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6.4
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11
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Siddhartha
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Hesse
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7.1
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6
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Smoky, the Cowhorse |
James |
6.5 |
13 |
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Tale of Two Cities |
Dickens |
9.7 |
27
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
Hardy |
9.5 |
23 |
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The Gold bug |
Poe |
9.8 |
3 |
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The Jungle |
Sinclair |
8.0 |
22 |
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The Miracle Worker |
Gibson |
5.2 |
4 |
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The Pearl |
Steinbeck |
7.1 |
4 |
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The Yearling |
Rawlings |
5.0 |
19 |
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Three Muskateers |
Dumas |
11.3 |
42 |
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Tim Machine |
Wells |
7.4 |
6 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lee |
5.6 |
15 |
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Treasure Island |
Stevenson |
8.3 |
12 |
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Two Years Before the Mast |
Dana |
7.7 |
26 |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Stowe |
9.3 |
32 |
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Watership Down |
Adams |
6.2 |
25 |
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When Plague Strikes: the Black |
Giblin |
9.8 |
7 |
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Wuthering Heights |
Bronte |
11.3 |
23 |
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