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CLASSICS

Reading levels are indicated: “beginning” is for readers who are starting to learn English, while “intermediate” and “advanced” are for readers with some experience in the language.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
​by Roald Dahl
​Charlie and five others win a guided tour of a legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. (intermediate)
Hatchet 
​by Gary Paulsen
Brian's plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness and he must survive on his own with nothing but a hatchet. (intermediate)
The House on Mango Street 
​by Sandra Cisneros
Short stories about Esperanza Cordera, a girl living in Chicago, and her friends, family and neighborhood. (beginning-intermediate)
My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends alone in the Catskill Mountains. (beginning-intermediate)
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes 
by Eleanor Coerr
Based on the true story of an active young Japanese girl named Sadako. Nine years after the atom bomb fell on her town of Hiroshima, she became sick and began folding origami cranes, which according to legend, can make you well if you fold one thousand. (beginning)
Stepping Stones Classic series
This series takes classic books and adapts them into simpler language. 
Frankenstein
​by Mary Shelly, adapted by Larry Weinberg
Dr. Victor Frankenstein learns the secret of producing life, and so, by putting together parts of various corpses, he creates the Frankenstein monster. The monster is huge and frightening, but he means no harm to anyone--until constant ill treatment drives him to murder and revenge. (beginner)
Other titles include: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, War of the Worlds, The Swiss Family Library
Where the Red Fern Grows
​by Wilson Rawls
Two hunting dogs plus one boy equals adventure, danger, and love for animals like you've never read about before. Set in America's Ozark Mountains, this story will remain with dog lovers, as will the hope and resilience the main character uses to help him grow into a man, for a very long time. (intermediate)​
The Westing Game
​by Ellen Raskin
Mysterious multimillionaire Samuel Westing reaches from the grave to make sixteen unlikely people compete in a game of his own devising. (intermediate)
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