LC Book List

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1	Course/Grade	Novel	Author	Brief Description

2	English 9	The Call of the Wild	Jack London	The story follows a dog named Buck, a 140 pound Saint Bernard and Scotch Shepherd mix. Buck is abducted from a comfortable life as a pet and tossed into the chaos of the Klondike Gold Rush and the brutal realities of frontier life.
3	English 9	Odyssey	Homer	Odysseus' 10-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. While Odysseus battles mystical creatures and faces the wrath of the gods, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus stave off suitors vying for Penelope's hand and Ithaca's throne long enough for Odysseus to return.
4	English 9	Romeo and Juliet	Shakespeare	An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues risk further conflict by gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father's choice, the County Paris.
5	English 9	The Pigman	Paul Zindel	The novel takes the form of a confession by two teens, John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, who describe how they developed a friendship with Mr. Pignati, a.k.a. the Pigman, which ended in a betrayal and the Pigman's tragic death.
6	English 9	The Miracle Worker	William Gibson	Based on the life of a deaf/blind woman called Helen Keller. It recounts her childhood , growing up in the deep south of the states. You learn how she had to struggle to be understood with her disabilities and how she overcame them with her equally blind teacher who overcame her problems to be able to see again.
7	English 9	To Kill A Mockingbird	Haper Lee	A black man in rural Alabama is accused of a crime, and the protagonist's father is the only lawyer willing to defend him. To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl's coming-of-age story and a darker drama about the roots and consequences of racism and prejudice, probing how good and evil can coexist within a single community or individual.
8	Advanced 9	Odyssey	Homer	Odysseus' 10-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. While Odysseus battles mystical creatures and faces the wrath of the gods, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus stave off suitors vying for Penelope's hand and Ithaca's throne long enough for Odysseus to return.
9	Advanced 9	The Call of the Wild	Jack London	The story follows a dog named Buck, a 140 pound Saint Bernard and Scotch Shepherd mix. Buck is abducted from a comfortable life as a pet and tossed into the chaos of the Klondike Gold Rush and the brutal realities of frontier life.
10	Advanced 9	Romeo and Juliet	Shakespeare	An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues risk further conflict by gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father's choice, the County Paris.
11	Advanced 9	Night	Ellie Wiesel	Night follows the terrifying journey of Eliezer Wiesel and his family from their home in Sighet through the ghettos and concentration camps of the "Holocaust during WWII. While at first, no one believed that something like the murder of innocent men, women, and children as possible, the ravings of Moishe the Beadle, Elie's teacher, are soon proven true. Before being transferred to concentration camps, the Wiesel family is forced to live in a ghetto within their own village."
12	Advanced 9	To Kill A Mockingbird	Haper Lee	A black man in rural Alabama is accused of a crime, and the protagonist's father is the only lawyer willing to defend him. To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl's coming-of-age story and a darker drama about the roots and consequences of racism and prejudice, probing how good and evil can coexist within a single community or individual.
13	English 9	The Miracle Worker	William Gibson	Based on the life of a deaf/blind woman called Helen Keller. It recounts her childhood , growing up in the deep south of the states. You learn how she had to struggle to be understood with her disabilities and how she overcame them with her equally blind teacher who overcame her problems to be able to see again.
14	Advanced 9	The Pigman	Paul Zindel	The novel takes the form of a confession by two teens, John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, who describe how they developed a friendship with Mr. Pignati, a.k.a. the Pigman, which ended in a betrayal and the Pigman's tragic death.
15	English 10 B	Life of Pi	Yann Martel	Life of Pi tells the magical story of a young Indian, who finds himself shipwrecked and lost at sea in a large lifeboat. His companions are four wild animals: an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena, and, most notably, Richard Parker, a tiger.
16	English 10 B	Code Talker	Joseph Bruchac	Navajo (Native American) who uses his language to help win the war. It is World War Two and the United States of America is fighting against Japan. Every code the Americans have used to send secret information has been cracked by the Japanese.
17	English 10 B	Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw	Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, is so confident that he can train anyone to speak perfect English that he makes a bet with his associate Colonel Pickering that he will train a poor Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess.
18	English 10	Life of Pi	Yann Martel	Life of Pi tells the magical story of a young Indian, who finds himself shipwrecked and lost at sea in a large lifeboat. His companions are four wild animals: an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena, and, most notably, Richard Parker, a tiger.
19	English 10	Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.
20	English 10	Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw	Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, is so confident that he can train anyone to speak perfect English that he makes a bet with his associate Colonel Pickering that he will train a poor Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess.
21	Eng 10 Adv	Audacity	Melanie Crowder	Audacity is the story of a remarkable young woman, whose passion and selfless devotion to her cause changed the world. In time, Clara convinces the women in the factories to strike, organize, and unionize, culminating in the famous Uprising of the 20,000.
22	Eng 10 Adv	The Hound of the Baskerville	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.
23	Eng 10 Adv	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency.
24	Eng 10 Adv	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Baroness Orzcy	The Scarlet Pimpernel hides the identity of a British nobleman who, masked by various disguises, leads a band of young men to undermine the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution.
25	Eng 10 Adv	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	The book tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss student of natural science who creates an artificial man from pieces of corpses and brings his creature to life. Though it initially seeks affection, the monster inspires loathing in everyone who meets it.
26	Eng 10 Adv	A Separate Peace	John Knowles	Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace follows the friendship of the serious, intellectual Gene and the athletic, charismatic Phineas and the tragic turn their relationship takes when a moment's impulse has terrible consequences.
27	Eng 10 Adv	Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw	Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, is so confident that he can train anyone to speak perfect English that he makes a bet with his associate Colonel Pickering that he will train a poor Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess.
28	Eng 10 Adv	The Measure	Nikki Erlick	The Measure follows eight people after they, like the rest of the world, receive a box containing a string that designates their lifespan. The book explores how these people's lives and relationships change as a result of knowing the length of their lives or choosing not to know at all
29	Eng 10 Adv	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne	The story of three men who go to sea in search of a giant whale. They are taken prisoner on board the world's first submarine – the Nautilus. The Nautilus travels through the world's seas. The men see amazing deep-sea creatures, and they travel to remote islands.
30	Eng 10 Adv	A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen	A three-act play about a housewife who becomes disillusioned and dissatisfied with her condescending husband. The play raises universal issues and questions that are applicable to societies worldwide.
31	Eng 10 Adv	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	The story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls in love with a girl above his class, loses her, and devotes the rest of his life to wreaking revenge on her family.
32	Eng 10 Adv	Anatomy: A Love Story	Dana Schwartz	A gothic tale full of mystery and romance about a willful female surgeon, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, and the buried secrets they must uncover together. Edinburgh, 1817. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry.
33	Eng 10 Adv	The Maid	Nita Prose	The premise of this book is that a young maid, Molly, who works in a luxury hotel, walks into a room where a wealthy and regular guest is dead in his bed, suspected murdered. Because of her abnormal behavior and mannerisms and her proximity socially and physically to the scene, Molly is the prime suspect.
34	Eng 10 Adv	Around the World in 80 Days	Jules Verne	A wealthy gentleman, Phileas Fogg, makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg and his servant set off immediately, determined to win this race against time. Little do they know they aren't making the journey alone
35	Eng 10 Adv	Emma	Jane Austen	Emma recently made a match for her close friend. She is sad to lose her friend, but she is glad to see her so happy. Emma quickly finds a new friend in Harriet Smith, a young woman who was sent to a school run by Mrs. Goddard, and whose origins are unknown.
36	Eng 10 Adv	A Night in the Lonesome October	Roger Zelazny	Loyally accompanying a mysterious knife-wielding gentleman named Jack on his midnight rounds through the murky streets of London, good dog Snuff is busy helping his master collect the grisly ingredients needed for an unearthly rite that will take place not long after the death of the moon.
37	Eng 10 Adv	I Am Malala	Malala Yousafzai	The remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.
38	Eng 10 Adv	Importance of Being Ernest	Oscar Wilde	John Worthing, a carefree young gentleman, is the inventor of a fictitious brother, “Ernest,” whose wicked ways afford John an excuse to leave his country home from time to time and journey to London, where he stays with his close friend and confidant, Algernon Moncrieff.
39	Eng 10 Adv	Hail Mary	Andy Weir	Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
40	Eng 10 Adv	Secret Runners of New York	Matthew Reilly	When Skye Rogers and her twin brother Red move to Manhattan, rumours of a coming global apocalypse are building. But this does not stop the young elite of New York from partying without a care. And then suddenly Skye is invited to join an exclusive gang known as the Secret Runners of New York.
41	Eng 10 Adv	Atomic Anna	Rachel Barenbaum	The novel is primarily about three women: Anna, an atomic physicist, her daughter Molly, a comic book artist, and Molly's daughter Raisa, a math genius. Their overall tale encompasses an immigrant story and a love story, the destructive power of family secrets, and the regenerative power of friendship.
42	Eng 10 Adv	Mysterious Affair at Styles	Agatha Christie	Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When Mrs Inglethorp is murdered, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery.
43	Eng 10 Adv	Immortality: A Love Story	Dana Schwartz	Book two of a historical fantasy duology that explores what happens when a woman decides to become a doctor in pre-Victorian Scotland. The story contains mystery, thrills, a light romance, a reimagination of history, and the solution to how one can live forever
44	Eng 10 Adv	Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen	The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother as they are forced to leave the family estate at Norland Park and move to Barton Cottage, a modest home on the property of distant relative Sir John Middleton. There Elinor and Marianne experience love, romance, and heartbreak.
45	Eng 10 Adv	Life of Pi	Yaan Martel	Life of Pi tells the magical story of a young Indian, who finds himself shipwrecked and lost at sea in a large lifeboat. His companions are four wild animals: an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena, and, most notably, Richard Parker, a tiger.
46	Eng 10 Adv	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	This retells the story of Marlow's job as an ivory transporter down the Congo. Through his journey, Marlow develops an intense interest in investigating Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent, and Marlow is shocked upon seeing what the European traders have done to the natives.
47	Eng 10 Adv	Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore	Robin Sloan	A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life — mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore.
48	Eng 10 Adv	Turn of the Screw	Henry James	The story of a young, inexperienced governess who is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small orphaned children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. The governess sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window; she also sees a woman.
49	Eng 10 Adv	7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle	Stuart Turton	Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others.
50	Eng 10 Adv	Carrie Soto is Back	Taylor Jenkins Reid	The novel opens in 1994 when former tennis star Carrie Soto witnesses seeing her record of 20 Grand Slam titles shattered. She comes out of retirement at age 37 and makes an arduous journey back to the court to prove that she is the best female tennis player in the world.
51	Eng 10 Adv	Pudd'nhead Wilson	Mark Twain	Two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the other's social role.
52	English 11	Huck Finn	Mark Twain	Huck Finn, barely literate teen who fakes his own death to escape his abusive, drunken father. He encounters a runaway slave named Jim, and the two embark on a raft journey down the Mississippi River.
53	English 11	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	The Crucible is a dark and chilling play studying the events leading up to the 1692 Salem witch trials. Based on true people and events, the story revolves around the accused and the accusing, and their fates.
54	AP 11	Night	Ellie Wiesel	Night follows the terrifying journey of Eliezer Wiesel and his family from their home in Sighet through the ghettos and concentration camps of the "Holocaust during WWII. While at first, no one believed that something like the murder of innocent men, women, and children as possible, the ravings of Moishe the Beadle, Elie's teacher, are soon proven true. Before being transferred to concentration camps, the Wiesel family is forced to live in a ghetto within their own village."
55	AP 11	Prose Models	Penguin Random House	Follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the form consists of verse (writing in lines) based on rhythmic metre or rhyme.
56	AP 11	5 Steps to a 5 AP Language and Composition:		Hundreds of practice exercises with answer explanations; comprehensive overview of all test topics; proven strategies from seasoned AP educators.
57	AP 11	Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	A literary nonfiction novel that spans the years surrounding the building of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer who exploits the fair to find his victims.
58	AP 11	Freakonomics	Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner	A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything using data and simple questions.
59	AP 11	AMSCO Writing for the AP Exam (English Language and Composition)	Brandon Abdon	A skill-based approach to help students prepare for answering the free-response questions on exam day as well as to elevate their writing ability.
60	AP 11	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	The Crucible is a dark and chilling play studying the events leading up to the 1692 Salem witch trials. Based on true people and events, the story revolves around the accused and the accusing, and their fates.
61	AP 11	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn.
62	AP11	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
63	AP11	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	the story of Guy Montag and his transformation from a book-burning fireman to a book-reading rebel. Montag lives in an oppressive society that attempts to eliminate all sources of complexity, contradiction, and confusion to ensure uncomplicated happiness for all its citizens.
64	AP 11	Test of Time	Charles Harrington Elster	Test of Time is a captivating time-travel adventure that incorporates vocabulary words from the SAT and ACT, boldfacing them throughout the novel and providing definitions in a handy back-of-the book glossary.
65	English 12	Animal Farm	George Orwell	It tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before.
66	English 12	A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	a miserly old man, who is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve and learns the importance of kindness and generosity.
67	English 12	1984	George Orwell	Winston Smith, a low ranking member of 'the Party', who is frustrated by the omnipresent eyes of the party, and its ominous ruler Big Brother. 'Big Brother' controls every aspect of people's lives.
68	English 12	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels is a four-part prose travelogue, narrated by the fictitious persona of Lemuel Gulliver, who tells the story of his extensive global voyages, the places he has been and the people (and other creatures) he met.
69	English 12	Hamlet	Shakespeare	The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet.
70	English 12	Julius Caesar	Shakespeare	Political thriller tells the story of the conspiracy against Caesar, his assassination and the defeat of his conspirators.
71	English 12	Test of Time	Charles Harrington Elster	Test of Time is a captivating time-travel adventure that incorporates vocabulary words from the SAT and ACT, boldfacing them throughout the novel and providing definitions in a handy back-of-the book glossary.
72	English 12	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austin	The turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry.
73	English 12	The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	Is set in Middle-earth and follows home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit of the title, who joins the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves that make up Thorin Oakenshield's Company, on a quest to reclaim the dwarves' home and treasure from the dragon Smaug.
74	English 12	The Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Tolkien	Set in Middle-earth during the Third Age, The Fellowship of the Ring follows the unlikely hero, Frodo Baggins, in his quest to destroy the One Ring of ultimate power before the evil Sauron can regain the weapon.
75	English 12/Honors 12	Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	A literary nonfiction novel that spans the years surrounding the building of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer who exploits the fair to find his victims.
76	English 12/Honors 12	Much Ado About Nothing	Shakespeare	This comedic play is set in Messina, Italy, and tells the story of Beatrice and Benedick, who are always arguing. Their friends plot to make them fall in love with each other.
77	English 12/Honors 12	Freakonomics	Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner	A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything using data and simple questions.
78	English 12/Honors 12	Night	Ellie Wiesel	Night follows the terrifying journey of Eliezer Wiesel and his family from their home in Sighet through the ghettos and concentration camps of the "Holocaust during WWII. While at first, no one believed that something like the murder of innocent men, women, and children as possible, the ravings of Moishe the Beadle, Elie's teacher, are soon proven true. Before being transferred to concentration camps, the Wiesel family is forced to live in a ghetto within their own village."
79	English 12/Honors 12	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	The story of Guy Montag and his transformation from a book-burning fireman to a book-reading rebel. Montag lives in an oppressive society that attempts to eliminate all sources of complexity, contradiction, and confusion to ensure uncomplicated happiness for all its citizens.
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82	ACP 12	Writing Analytically		Course follows the guidelines set by Indiana University ( https://acp.iu.edu/courses/index.html) An analytical summary of a book or a paper is the first step to writing an essay or one's own research. A summary aims to demonstrate that you have read a text carefully, understood it, and are able to outline its key ideas and analyze the strong and weak sides of the author's arguments.
83	ACP 12	Norton Anthology		Course follows the guidelines set by Indiana University ( https://acp.iu.edu/courses/index.html) The anthology provides an overview of poetry, drama, prose fiction, essays, and letters from Beowulf to the beginning of the 21st century.
84	ACP 12	5 Steps to a 5 AP Literature and Composition		Course follows the guidelines set by Indiana University ( https://acp.iu.edu/courses/index.html) The anthology provides an overview of poetry, drama, prose fiction, essays, and letters from Beowulf to the beginning of the 21st century.
85	ACP 12	Julius Caesar	Shakespeare	Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. Mark Antony drives the conspirators out of Rome and fights them in a battle.
86	ACP 12	Test of Time	Charles Harrington Elster	Time-travel adventure that incorporates vocabulary words from the SAT and ACT, boldfacing them throughout the novel and providing definitions in a handy back-of-the book glossary.
87	ACP 12	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austin	The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
88	ACP 12	The Hobbit	J.R.R. Toliken	The Hobbit is set in Middle-earth and follows home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit of the title, who joins the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves that make up Thorin Oakenshield's Company, on a quest to reclaim the dwarves' home and treasure from the dragon Smaug.
89	ACP 12	The Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Toliken	Bilbo Baggins (a Hobbit) finds a ring in a cave on an adventure with some dwarves (as told in The Hobbit) . Now his nephew Frodo must must take the ring to mount doom there to destroy it and foil the dark lord in his evil polt.
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91	World Civ	Maus	Art Spiegelman	A story from the perspective of a holocaust survivor. The survivor's father is being interviewed by his son and it is told through a graphic novel perspective. It is divided into two parts. Part 1 is about the events leading up to being put in a concentration camp and part 2 is about life at the concentration camps and what happens after.
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93		Maus 2	Art Spiegelman	Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.
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95	AP Spanish	La Casa en Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros	It interweaves a year in the life of many Latinos living in a Chicago neighborhood. The central character is twelve-year-old Esperanza, who begins the novel as a child. Throughout the novel, she matures and loses her innocence, all the while deepening her desire to one day escape Mango Street.
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97		La Dama del alba	Alejandro Casona	A mystery about a traveler in Galicia, España. The traveler visits a family several times and the book describes the events surrounding the visits.
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99	Dual Credit	IVY Tech		Course follows the guidelines set by Ivy Tech Community College
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