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1) Heidi
Author
Lexile Measure
1000L
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Summary
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. This edition of the classic tale includes illustrations and notes about the life of the times.
Author
Series
Magic bone volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Summary
With a bite of his magic bone, Sparky heads off to adventures in Switzerland.
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 35
Pub. Date
2010, c1992
Lexile Measure
700L
Summary
The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in which a gambling syndicate tries to influence the outcome of a Swiss auto race.
5) Frankenstein
Author
Lexile Measure
1040L
Summary
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils...
6) Barry
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
Ã2013.
Lexile Measure
670L
Summary
Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.