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1) Jane Eyre
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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Description
Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. At Mr Rochester's house, where she goes to work as a governess, she hopes she might have found them.
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Series
Language
English
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Adult - Books Made Into Movies
Adult - Ghost Stories
Adult - Shocking Plot Twists
Adult - Staff Picks Fiction
Adult - Ghost Stories
Adult - Shocking Plot Twists
Adult - Staff Picks Fiction
Description
The classic ghost story about a high-strung governess and the two young children who may--or may not--be plotting with the diabolical Peter Quint.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Elizabeth Tudor--ultimately emerging as the lifelong confidante to Queen Elizabeth I.
Author
Series
Liberty Lane novels volume 1
Publisher
Avon A
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
331 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1898
Language
English
Description
This volume contains two acclaimed short works by the great American writer Henry James (1843-1916). His famous novella The Turn of the Screw, concerning the governess of two small children, brilliantly illustrates James's theory of the horror story. A true psychological thriller, it leaves open the question whether the children are being "corrupted" by malevolent spirits or by their neurotic mistress. The Lesson of the Master is a richly told tale...
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Language
English
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"Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey's twin children. Falling under the de Greys' spell, Alice...
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