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1) The castle
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Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the mysterious Castle authorities or by the people of the village, never will and never can be resolved.Like much of Kafka's work, The Castle is enigmatic...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal during six turbulent months of 1934, filling three notebooks with sharply funny, yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric, penniless family. By the time the last diary is finished, great changes have occurred within the Mortmain household, and Cassandra is herself, deeply and hopelessly, in love.
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A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 4
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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While visiting Wallis's castle, Dink and his friends investigate strange noises that lead them to a dangerous secret.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.
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Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold. Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 2
Magic tree house series.Merlin Missions volume 2
Magic tree house.Merlin mission volume 30
Magic tree house series.Merlin Missions volume 2
Magic tree house.Merlin mission volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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In their magic treehouse, Jack and Annie are again transported to King Arthur's realm, where invisible beings, giant ravens, and mistaken magic spells have a duke's castle in an uproar on Halloween night.
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Deverill chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia Deverill is determined to see her ruined ancestral home restored to its former glory — to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle. Kitty herself is raising a young family, but she longs for Jack O'Leary — the long-ago sweetheart she cannot have. And soon Kitty must make a heartbreaking...
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Castle Glower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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See where it all began with the start to Jessica Day George's bestselling series about a castle that can rebuild itself and the children who defend it.
Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on Tuesdays the Castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. No one ever knows what the Castle will do next, and no one-other than Celie, that is-takes the time to map out the new additions....
Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on Tuesdays the Castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. No one ever knows what the Castle will do next, and no one-other than Celie, that is-takes the time to map out the new additions....
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DK Pub
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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Jodie and Johnny have to chose a path through Grizzlemyst. There are many paths from which to chose, but only one of them will lead to a safe exit.You can help them choose a path--but whichever path you choose, you will meet some amazing horrors.
13) The last kingdom
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Cotton Malone novels volume 17
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English
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"King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigmatic figure who was deposed in 1886, mysteriously drowning three days later. Eccentric to the point of madness, history tells us that in the years before he died Ludwig engaged in a worldwide search for a new kingdom, one separate, apart, and in lieu of Bavaria. A place he could retreat into and rule as he wished. But a question remains: did he succeed Enter Cotton Malone. After many months, Malone's protege,...
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"A lushly written, dream-like modern gothic with as many dark turns and twists as the Montebianco family tree has branches. Welcome to the family." – Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of Survivor Song
After a DNA test reveals that Alberta "Bert" Monte is the sole heir of a wealthy noble family in the Italian Alps, she leaves New York to visit the family estate: Montebianco Castle, a centuries-old compound isolated in
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Inkyard Press
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English
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"Princess Imogen of Goslind has lived a sheltered life for three years at the boarded-up castle--she and the rest of its inhabitants safe from the bloody mori roja plague that's ravaged the kingdom. But Princess Imogen has a secret, and as King Stuart descends further into madness, it's at great risk of being revealed. Rations dwindle each day, and unhappy murmurings threaten to crack the facade of the years-long charade being played within the castle...
17) Castle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In this first-ever standalone full-color edition, Castle is lavishly reborn in digitally finished drawings rendered with felt-tip markers and colored pencils. Factual and artistic details shine in light of newly researched information. With characteristic zest and wit, David Macaulay retraces the planning and construction of Lord Kevin{u2019}s fictional castle. Architecture enthusiasts of all ages will marvel at the staggering possibilities of human...
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Dressing up as knights in shining armor while accompanying the rest of the Mystery, Inc. gang on an overnight visit to an old-fashioned castle, Scooby and Shaggy become terrified when they learn that a vampire is haunting the castle.
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"Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts...
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Children of the Red King volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Over 3.4 million Charlie Bone books in print!!!Charlie's power is taking on a new dimension as he meets a new cast of characters, including Mr. Pilgrim's replacement, Tantalus Ebony, and the mysterious new student Joshua Tilpin, who appears to be magnetic. But Charlie isn't the only one dealing with changes ... Billy has been adopted by a child-hating couple called the O'Gres, who carry a gray bag of oaths wherever they go, pressuring Billy to sign...