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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mackin Educational Resources
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
From silly to scary, shocking to absurd, dragons abound in this collection of eight children's stories from beloved author E. Nesbit. Originally published in the serial magazine The Strand, this anthology was reprinted as a single volume in 1901 and has served as a classic of both children's and dragon's literature ever since. Within, you'll find stories of a silly king, a stalwart princess, a pair of mischievous children on the hunt for adventure,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015, [2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Familiar Here are stories of everyday life, as familiar as a piece of rope and...as haunting as fear: Mike knows that he can't swing over the river on the knotted rope, but with everyone watching him, he has to try…as haunting as a stranger: Who is the frightened-looking girl stealing plums from Nicky's grandparents' precious tree?...as haunting as cruelty: How can Joe escape from his mean cousin Dicky during a family reunion? Here are stories with...
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The 9 stories in this collection explore the magic and mystery of strange lands populated not just by ordinary boys and girls but also by elves, fairies, kelpies, and a queen with screaming hair! In "Clem's Dream," a boy loses his dream and asks the Slipper, Tooth, Apple, Bread, and Water Fairies to help get it back for him. In "The Queen With Screaming Hair," 5-year-old Princess Christina of Laurestinia snips off the white whiskers of the all-powerful...
17) The jungle book
Author
Lexile measure
NC 1020L
Language
English
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"Mowgli is not an ordinary boy; he can climb trees like a monkey and even outrun a tiger. He is a child of the jungle. Discovered at the edge of a cave in the Seeonee hills, Mowgli was taken under the care and protection of a family of wolves when he was no more than a baby. Now adopted by the wolf-pack, he slowly grows up away from the world of men. Along the way he makes life-long friends: Baloo the brown bear and Bagheera the wise panther who help...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg.
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