A favorite author uses an actual incident from 1609 to base a story
of three impoverished children left alone in London who make their
way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. . .. Fine
engrossing historical fiction.
A little princess is the timeless classic about Sara Crewe, daughter of a wealthy father, who is brought from India to a boarding school in England. There, due to her father's wealth, she is treated like royalty--until her father ...
This handsomely illustrated series presents Shakespeare in such a lively and accessible manner that students and young readers will find themselves wishing to read all his plays. Readers learn to enjoy these immortal works as they follow th...
Four young people are lost in the woods on midsummer's night.Will they find each other and true love,or will puck's meddling leave them broken-hearted and alone?
by Charles Dickens introduced by Roddy Doyle
Age Group: 9-12
The epic story of two cities and two men. Charles Darnay and Sydney
Carton are alike in appearance, very different in character, but in
love with the same woman. Darnay, who has abandoned the cruelty of
the French nobility for London, ha...
The little wooden horse loves Uncle Peder like a father and hopes never to leave him. Then the toymaker falls on hard times, and the little wooden horse must go out into the worlds to seek his fortune. But wheather he's working in a c...
Alice lives an ordinary life, until the day she follows the White Rabbit down, down, down a rabbit hole. She suddenly finds herself in an enchanted world, surrounded by zany creatures like the Mad Hatter, the Duchess, and the Cheshire Cat. ...
Anna Comnena has every reason to feel entitled. She's a princess, her
father's firstborn and his chosen successor. Someday she expects to
sit on the throne and rule the vast Byzantine Empire
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
by Kathleen Olmstead Reold By Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age Group: 4-8
Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic tale, with its engaging heroine and evocative description of the Prince Edward Island landscape, never fails to delight youngsters. When Matthew Cuthbert goes to the train station to pick up the orphan he and ...
When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green
Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we
asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl.
This is the sixth volume of the adventures of red-haired Anne Shirley. Anne, now Mrs Doctor Blythe, is still sometimes as impetuous as when she was the girl from Green Gables. But with six lively children and hard-worked Gilbert to look aft...
by L.M.Montgomery introduced by Budge Wilson
Age Group: 9-12
This is the third heartwarming book about red-haired Anne Shirley. As
her childhood friends get married and move away, Anne too leaves
Prince Edward Island for college in Kingsport. Although Priscilla
Grant and Gilbert Blythe are there, ...
Young woman and her romance with gilbert blythe begining to flourish, anne shirely becomes principal of summerside high school. but summerside is virtually ruled by the pringle family, who don't want anne at the school. it takes all a...
This revised translation of Aristotle's classic treatise contains all ten books of his vastly influential work of moral philosophy. Founded on the famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess a...
This revised translation of Aristotle's classic treatise contains all ten books of his vastly influential work of moral philosophy. Founded on the famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess a...
by Deanna McFadden Retold By Jules Verne Original
Age Group: 4-8
When Phileas Fogg, a man of habit whose every day is like the one before, makes a bet that he can circle the globe in just 80 days, the race is on. Verne's classic story bubbles with excitement, suspense, and colorful locations. Illustratio...
Enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg makes a wager that he can travel around the world in only 80 days. With his faithful valet, Passepartout, the two men set off on an adventure with an inept detective, Mr. Fix, close behind. One of the class...