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IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Orwell's world famous satire on dictatorship told through a story about the happenings of an english country farm and the animal inhabitants who find it their duty to rebel against the sometimes cruel owner and prove themselves every bit mankind's intellectual equal.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear ... This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical...
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In Philip K. Dick's alternate history classic, the United States lost World War II and was subsequently invaded. Now in 1962, the Germans control the eastern half of the continent, the Japanese control the west, and the two are subtly preparing for war against each other. What constitutes a moral life in this oddly fascist Middle America?
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