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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.Treasure island (Saddleback classics #Set I)
By Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her…
son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger. Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's work, published in 1883. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.The red badge of courage (Saddleback classics #Set I)
By Stephen Crane, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
Henry Fleming, an unsophisticated country boy, enthusiastic to serve his country, enlists with the Union forces at the beginning of…
the Civil War. At first, the shock of war causes him to retreat and his heroic vision of himself fades. In the next battle, however, his courage revives as he carries forward the regiment's colours in a crucial advance. Adaptation of the American classic by Stephen Crane, originally published in 1895. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.Frankenstein (Saddleback classics #Set I)
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
The monster created by Dr. Frankenstein was supposed to be man's benefactor but, scorned for his ugliness, he swears revenge…
on his creator and the human race. Adaptation of Mary Shelley's work, published in 1831. For junior and senior high readers. c1999.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Saddleback classics #Set Ii)
By Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
A kind and well-respected doctor can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.…
Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", first published in 1886. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.The adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin classics #Set Ii)
By Mark Twain, Joanne Suter. 1999
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Saddleback classics #Set I)
By Mark Twain, Joanne Suter. 1999
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.