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This deluxe volume brings all Beatrix Potter's 23 Peter Rabbit tales and verses together in one book. The texts are…
complete and unabridged. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published. Each story stands alone but several are linked together by events and characters. Grades P-2. 1997.Les moutons de Panurge
By Jeanine Guion, Jean Guion, François Rabelais. 2001
En ce temps-là, le géant Pantagruel, Panurge et leurs amis faisaient le tour du monde sur les mers. Un jour,…
leur bateau croisa un navire de commerce transportant des moutons... Un mini-dictionnaire regroupant quelques mots difficiles complète l'histoire. À partir de 6 ans. 2001.Les contes de Charles Perrault
By Charles Perrault. 1984
Neuf contes sont présentés: La Belle au bois dormant, Barbe-Bleue, Peau d'âne, Cendrillon ou La Petite Pantoufle de vair, Le…
Maître chat ou Le Chat botté, Riquet à la houppe, Le Petit Chaperon rouge, Le Petit Poucet, Les Fées. Années M-3.Les aventures d'Huckleberry Finn (Folio junior. 230)
By Mark Twain, Suzanne Nétillard. 1999
Sans doute le chef-d'oeuvre de Mark Twain et celui de la jeune littérature américaine. Le roman raconte la fuite d'un…
enfant blanc et d'un esclave de race noire. Pour échapper à leurs poursuivants, les fugitifs descendent le Mississippi sur un radeau de fortune. Années 5-8. 1999, c1884. Titre uniforme: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Hans Brinker or The silver skates (Recorded Books classics library)
By Mary Mapes Dodge. 1996
Diary of a pilgrimage (Jerome K. Jerome Ser.)
By Jerome K Jerome. 1891
Invited to the theatre on Monday next, Jerome discovers it is at Ober-Ammergau. He looked at his diary and saw…
that Aunt Emma was coming, calculated that he would miss her and decided that he would go! And so began an epic pilgrimage. 1891.Classic satire about a nineteenth-century New England factory worker who is knocked unconscious and transported back to the year 528.…
Hank Morgan awakens in King Arthur's court in Britain, where he attempts to improve living conditions by introducing modern inventions and democratic ideas. For senior high and older readers. 1988, c1889.Wild animals I have known (New Canadian library ; #141)
By Ernest Thompson Seton. 1898
The second jungle book (The World's classics)
By Rudyard Kipling, W. W Robson. 1895
Presents the further adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the…
jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India. Sequel to "The jungle book" (DC04437). Grades 4-7. c1895.The man that corrupted Hadleyburg (Recorded Books classics library)
By Mark Twain. 1994
The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of…
Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character. A stranger, offended by the pious reputation of the town, devises a plan to bring its honoured residents to shame. Is there even one righteous man in Hadleyburg? Junior and Senior High. 1994.The kill
By Émile Zola. 1985
The incestuous affair of Renée Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Renée's financier husband,…
Aristide, in a Paris becoming a modern metropolis and "the capital of the nineteenth century." In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a woman's spirit and a city's soul ravaged beyond repair. For senior high readers. 1985. Uniform title: Curée.The jungle books II (Recorded Books classics library)
By Rudyard Kipling. 1991
Presents more adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle.…
Also includes other short stories set in India. Grades 5-8. 1991. Uniform title: Jungle book.The jungle books (Recorded Books classics library)
By Rudyard Kipling. 1981
Germinal (Penguin classics ; #L45)
By Émile Zola. 1954
Written to draw attention to the misery prevailing among the poor in France during the Second Empire, this novel depicts…
the grim struggle between capital and labour in a coalfield in northern France. Yet, through the blackness of this picture, humanity is constantly apparent. Senior High. 1954.Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain. 1884
When Huckleberry Finn flees from his brutal father, he meets up with an old friend, the slave Jim, who is…
also running away. Together they travel by raft down the Mississippi, experiencing amazing adventures, and learning of the strange ways of people in the deep south. For Junior High readers. 1884.Treasure Island (A Purnell de luxe classic)
By Robert Louis Stevenson. 1946
The Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum. 1960
The jungle book
By Rudyard Kipling. 1894
Short stories about the animals of India and the life of Mowgli, the jungle boy who is adopted by a…
wolf pack and taught the laws of the jungle by a panther and a bear. Followed by "The second jungle book". Grades 4-7. 1984, c1894.The adventures of Pinocchio
By Carol Della Chiesa, Carlo Collodi. 1963
When Geppetto finds a piece of talking wood, he carves it into a marionette whom he names Pinocchio. Originally published…
in the late 19th century. Grades 3-6. 1963, c1883. Uniform title: Avventure di Pinocchio.Black Beauty: the autobiography of a horse (Puffin Classics Ser.)
By Anna Sewell. 1994
Black Beauty, a fine stallion, tells of his suffering as he is sold from one cruel master to another. This…
book was written to dramatize the cruel ties inflicted on horses in 19th century England. Grades 4-7. 1994.