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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Lewis Carroll's Alice has been enchanting children for 150 years. Curious Alice, the bossy White Rabbit, the formidable Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter are among the best-loved, most iconic literary creations of all time. Mabel Lucie Attwell's gentle illustrations and distinctive style have been the nursery staple of generations of children. Her illustrated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1911. As the original...
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English
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"Typhoon and Other Stories" is a collection of four shorter works by Joseph Conrad. In the title work "Typhoon" we have a classic tale of the sea which describes how Captain MacWhirr sails the Siamese steamer "Nan-Shan" into a typhoon. "Typhoon" excellently depicts sea-faring life at the turn of the 20th century. Also included in this collection is "Amy Foster", the story of a Polish immigrant who on his way to America becomes shipwrecked off the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The Jungle Book is a collection of Rudyard Kipling's animal stories, wonderfully told and interweaving moral lessons with classic tales. They include the stories of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a brave mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the story of a young elephant handler. The Jungle Book was first published by Macmillan in 1894.
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The story of genre fiction - horror, romantic fiction, science fiction, crime writing, and more - is also the story of Irish fiction. Irish writers have given the world Lemuel Gulliver, Dracula, and the world of Narnia. They have produced pioneering tales of detection, terrifying ghost stories and ground-breaking women's popular fiction. Now, for the first time, John Connolly's one volume presents the history of Irish genre writing and uses it to...
11) Jack of ravens
Author
Series
Kingdom of the serpent volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Jack Churchill, archaeologist and dreamer, walks out of the mist and into Celtic Britain more than two thousand years before he was born, with no knowledge of how he got there. All Jack wants is to get home to his own time where the woman he loves waitsfor him. Finding his way to the timeless mystical Otherworld, the home of the gods, he plans to while away the days, the years, the millennia, until his own era rolls around again...but nothing is...
Author
Publisher
MacMillan Children's Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
You know The Jungle Book--but you've never seen it quite like this! The Complete Jungle Book is a beautiful collection of Rudyard Kipling's beloved The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and Just So Stories. Mowgli and friends are brought vividly to life in Stuart Tresilian's original illustrations, rendered in full-color for this special edition. More than a century after Macmillan's publication of The Jungle Book in 1894, this gorgeous gift book...
13) Joseph Conrad
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Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English