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Ramona and her father: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (Ramona Quimby Ser.)
By Beverly Cleary. 2006
When Ramona's father unexpectedly loses his job just before Christmas, the second grader tries to think of ways to help…
the family. But getting her out-of-work father to stop smoking was not her best idea. For grades 2-4. Newbery Honor. 1977Little Bear and the Marco Polo (I Can Read Level 1)
By Else Holmelund Minarik, Dorothy Doubleday. 2010
While helping clean the attic, Little Bear tries on his grandfather's sea-captain cap and jacket. And even more special, Grandfather…
takes Little Bear to visit Grandfather's ship, the Marco Polo. An I Can Read Book, Level 1. For grades K-3. 2010Pinocchio (Classic Starts® Ser.)
By Tania Zamorsky. 2008
A wooden puppet wants to become a real boy but his nose grows every time he tells a lie. A…
retelling of The Adventures of Pinocchio (BR 14724) by Carlo Collodi. For grades 3-6. 2008The Swiss family Robinson
By Chris Tait. 2007
A shipwrecked family's resourceful members search their storm-battered boat for survival supplies, build a raft, and row to an island.…
They make camp and explore their surroundings, finding both food and wild animals. A retelling of The Swiss Family Robinson (BR 8265) by Johann David Wyss. For grades 3-6. 2007.dThe wind in the willows: Retold From The Kenneth Grahame Original (Classic Starts Ser.)
By Martin Woodside. 2007
Relates the escapades of four animal friends--Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad of Toad Hall--who live along a river in the…
English countryside. A retelling of The Wind in the Willows (BR 12977) by Kenneth Grahame. For grades 3-6. 2007When young Jim Hawkins finds a map, his friends realize it leads to treasure. They hire a ship, unaware that…
the crew includes the pirate Long John Silver. Retold from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1881 original Treasure Island (BR 13682). For grades 3-6. 2005Black Beauty: retold from the Anna Sewell original (Classic Starts Ser.)
By Lisa R Church. 2005
England, 1870s. A good-natured and strong stallion recalls his adventures working with many types of people, some kind and others…
cruel. A retelling of Black Beauty (BR 16469) by Anna Sewell. For grades 3-6. 2005Anne of Green Gables (Classic Starts Ser.)
By Kathleen Olmstead. 2005
Elderly Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla request a boy from an orphanage to help with the chores, but to…
their surprise a talkative, eleven-year-old girl arrives at their Prince Edward Island home instead. A retelling of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (BR 10098). For grades 3-6. 2005A good man is hard to find and other stories: And Other Stories
By Flannery O'Connor. 1977
Lower-middle-class southern characters in this collection of ten short stories emerge as distinct as the rural landscape where they live.…
The grandmother in the title story is a sarcastic, plain-speaking, self-assured, funny person who is completely taken in by evil. She and others face the complexities of life in a simple and direct style, which O'Connor captures in voices that could come only from the SouthFirst novel in a two-part fictionalized autobiography of Roman emperor Claudius I depicts his childhood and rise to power despite…
speech difficulties and physical infirmities. Claudius survives the deadly political intrigues that plague the reigns of his relatives Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula, and ascends the throne. Some violence. 1934A room with a view
By E. M Forster. 1988
Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza and faints into the arms of George Emerson. Lucy fancies…
George--who is entirely unsuitable--but faces social disapproval and her own conflicting desires. Back home, Lucy entertains a more acceptable suitor and must soon choose between convention and passion. 1908Howards End
By E. M Forster. 2007
Members of three different social classes intermingle at Howards End, a country house owned by the Wilcox family. The aristocratic…
Wilcoxes; the cultured, idealistic Schlegel sisters; and impoverished, unemployed bank clerk Leonard Bast find their lives shaped by romance, societal barriers, and violence. Includes a 2007 afterword. 1910Sister Carrie (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
By Theodore Dreiser. 1994
Naive eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves rural Wisconsin for Chicago, where she temporarily moves into her sister and brother-in-law's flat. Seeking…
an escape from a drab existence, Carrie welcomes the affections of two men--one of whom is married--who bring her wealth, sophistication, and success, but ultimately dissatisfaction. Restored version. 1900Henderson, the rain king (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
By Saul Bellow. 1996
Seeking a new, more rewarding life, middle-aged American millionaire Eugene Henderson leaves his wife and family and travels to Africa,…
where he descends upon a native tribe. Henderson's irresistible energy and awesome feats of strength win admiration, but his gift for bringing rain makes him a king. 1958Classic western stories: the most beloved stories
By Cooper Edens. 2009
Western adventures of explorers, cowboys, and Indians are commemorated in poems, songs, and stories. Includes folk legends of Pecos Bill…
and Paul Bunyan, and real-life exploits of Lewis and Clark and Daniel Boone. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2009Winesburg, Ohio
By Sherwood Anderson. 2005
Sketches of midwestern life in the early 1900s, inspired by the author's boyhood experiences. Loosely connected stories feature characters such…
as young reporter George Willard, schoolteacher Kate Swift--who tries to seduce Willard--and berry picker Wing Biddlebaum, whose hands bring both pride and shame. Includes 2005 afterword by Dean Koontz. 1919Waugh's classic exploration of faith, tradition, and moral values in a rapidly changing Britain. Charles Ryder narrates the story of…
an aristocratic Catholic family between the First and Second World Wars. Charles first meets alcoholic Sebastian Flyte at Oxford and later falls in love with Sebastian's married sister, Julia. 1945The ambassadors (Penguin classics)
By Henry James, Adrian Poole, Philip Horne. 2008
Acting as the wealthy Mrs. Newsome's ambassador, conscientious Massachusetts-based newspaper editor Lambert Strether journeys to Paris to retrieve Newsome's errant…
son, Chad. When Chad's suave demeanor and the city's charm distract Strether from his mission, Mrs. Newsome sends another envoy. Edited with a 2008 introduction by Adrian Poole. 1903Main Street
By Sinclair Lewis. 2008
Nobel Prize-winner's novel of small-town America. Carol Milford, an idealistic young librarian from the city of St. Paul, marries country…
doctor Will Kennicott. They settle in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, where Carol launches a crusade against the narrow-mindedness of her fellow residents. Includes 2008 introduction. 1920Sophie's choice (Vintage International Ser.)
By William Styron. 1992
Would-be writer Stingo moves into a cheap Brooklyn rooming house, where he meets Nathan and his beautiful lover, Sophie, a…
Polish Holocaust survivor. Stingo falls in love with Sophie and becomes her confidant as she faces the horrors of her past. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1976