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Cover: Tabula Rasa
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Tabula Rasa

From the Series The Tabula Rasa Saga

The Bourne Identity meets Divergent in this action-packed debut thriller with a Katniss-esque heroine fighting to regain her memories and stay alive, set against a dystopian hospital… Read More →

  • Lexile: 650
  • ATOS: 4.5
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

A poor peddler, John Durbeyfield learns he is related to an ancient noble family: the d'Urbervilles. To gain part of the fortune, he sends his eldest daughter, Tess, to the d'Urberville… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1090
  • ATOS: 9.5
  • Dewey: 823
  • Copyright: 2014

The Absolute Value of -1

Noah, Lily, and Simon have been a trio forever. But as they enter high school, their relationships shift and their world starts to fall apart. Privately, each is dealing with a family… Read More →

  • Lexile: 720
  • ATOS: 4.6
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2010

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Huckleberry Finn has just been adopted by the Widow Douglass and her sister, and both are committed to changing Huck's "uncivilized" ways. Clean clothes, good manners, and steady church and… Read More →

  • Lexile: 980
  • ATOS: 6.6
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

No mystery is too challenging for the infamous detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr. Watson. Holmes is at his best when the job seems impossible—or just plain absurd. From cases… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1080
  • ATOS: 7.0
  • Dewey: 823'.8
  • Copyright: 2014

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Whether tricking other boys into doing his work or sneaking off to bury a dead cat, Tom Sawyer is a boy with a fondness for mischief. But things become grim when he and his pal Huck Finn… Read More →

  • Lexile: 930
  • ATOS: 8.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: The Burnouts
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The Burnouts

From the Series Quarantine

Readers of The Maze Runner and Divergent will devour this dark survival series that's Lord of the Flies in a 21st-century high school setting. In the third Quarantine book, David and Will… Read More →

  • Lexile: 700
  • ATOS: 4.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

The Call of the Wild

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Buck is a big dog living a comfortable life in California. When gold is discovered in Canada, he is stolen from his home, taken up to the Klondike region, and forced to pull dog sleds. As… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1120
  • ATOS: 8.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

The Count of Monte Cristo

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Betrayed by his closest companions who are jealous of his success and his beautiful fiancée, Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned in Château d’If in France. The prison is home to the most… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1080
  • Dewey: 843'.7
  • Copyright: 2014

The Four Million: The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

This collection of twenty-five short stories includes some of O. Henry's finest works. The book title, The Four Million, is attributed to the population of New York City in the early 1900s,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 980
  • Dewey: 813'.4
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: The Freak Observer
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The Freak Observer

The Freak Observer is rich in family drama, theoretical physics, and an unusual, tough young woman—Loa Lindgren. For eight years, Loa Sollilja's world ran like one of those mechanical models… Read More →

  • Lexile: 720
  • ATOS: 5.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2010

The Horrors of Andersonville: Life and Death Inside a Civil War Prison

The Confederate prison known as Andersonville existed for only the last fourteen months of the Civil War―but its well-documented legacy of horror has lived on in the diaries of its prisoners… Read More →

  • Lexile: 990
  • ATOS: 7.8
  • Dewey: 973.7'82092
  • Copyright: 2010

The Hound of the Baskervilles

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Every mystery has an explanation, and detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are sure to explain why a supernatural black hound seems to be plaguing the Baskerville family. The recent death Read More →

  • Lexile: 850
  • ATOS: 8.3
  • Dewey: 823'.8
  • Copyright: 2014

The Iliad

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

The tenth and final year of the Trojan War comes to its climactic end in this infamous Greek epic. With the mighty Achilles brooding on the sidelines of the battle, the Greek army faces… Read More →

  • ATOS: 11.3
  • Dewey: 883'.01
  • Copyright: 2014

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's Read More →

  • ATOS: 4.5
  • Dewey: 822'.8
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: The Knife and the Butterfly
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The Knife and the Butterfly

After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang, 16-year-old Azael wakes up to find himself surrounded by a familiar set of concrete walls and a locked door. Juvie again, he thinks. But he… Read More →

  • Lexile: 790
  • ATOS: 4.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012

The Odyssey

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War, longs to return home to his kingdom in Ithaca, where a horde of suitors (who believe the long-absent Odysseus to be dead) are courting his beloved wife.… Read More →

  • ATOS: 10.3
  • Dewey: 883'.01
  • Copyright: 2014

The Oedipus Trilogy — Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Disregard for messages from the oracles and gods doesn't turn out well for characters in Greek stories, and Oedipus is no exception. Encompassing murder and betrayal, incest and patricide,… Read More →

  • Dewey: 882.01
  • Copyright: 2014

The Raven

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

During a dark night in December, a man sits in his room sadly thinking about his lost love, Lenore. Suddenly, he hears a tapping on the door, but no one is there. The noise moves to the… Read More →

  • ATOS: 7.1
  • Dewey: 811'.3
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: The Shibboleth
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The Shibboleth

From the Series The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy

"There are certain shibboleths to our condition." At the end of the first book of The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy, Jack and Shreve are incarcerado―physically locked up. Shreve's back in the Read More →

  • Lexile: 750
  • ATOS: 5.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-known gentleman living in London. He seems perfectly normal—that is, until he wills his estate to Mr. Edward Hyde, a wicked figure who had assaulted a young girl.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1010
  • ATOS: 9.4
  • Dewey: 821'.8
  • Copyright: 2014

The Three Musketeers

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Young, poor D'Artagnan is off to seek his fortune in Paris. Even before he reaches the city, he gets himself into mischief and, shortly after arriving, he offends three of the King's… Read More →

  • Lexile: 990
  • ATOS: 11.3
  • Dewey: 843'.7
  • Copyright: 2014

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Marcus Brutus, a Roman politician, considers Emperor Julius Caesar to be a friend, but a senator—Caius Cassius—convinces Brutus that Caesar has too much power. Brutus would rather Rome be a… Read More →

  • ATOS: 10.8
  • Dewey: 822.3'3
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: The Twelve-Fingered Boy
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The Twelve-Fingered Boy

From the Series The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy

Fifteen-year-old Shreve Cannon doesn't mind juvie. He's got a good business dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day are more than his drunk mother managed to provide. In juvie, the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 650
  • ATOS: 4.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2013