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Three short Christmas tales written in the 1850s. In "The Cricket on the Hearth" and "The Holly-Tree," misunderstandings between lovers…
are cleared up in time to make the holiday cheerful. Similarly, in "The Haunted House," lovers are eventually unitedChristmas ghosts
By David G. Hartwell, Kathryn D. Cramer. 1987
Collection of seventeen ghost stories dealing with Christmas spirits and ranging from humor to horror. Scary, romantic, comic or vengeful,…
these big and little ghosts have all made an appearance during the Christmas seasonGreat short stories by American women (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
By Candace Ward. 1996
A Collection of 13 short stories including "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat",…
plus superb fiction by great American authors including Kate Chopin, WIlla Cather, Edith Wharton, and others. AdultThe day of the locust [excerpt: Readings for Critical Thinkers and Writers
By Sonia Maasik, Nathanael West, Jack Solomon, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. 2004
Dread nation
By Justina Ireland. 2018
After the dead rise on the battlefields of Gettysburg, America passes the Negro and Native Reeducation Act that requires children…
of color attend combat schools to battle the undead. Jane McKeene, trained to protect the elite, gets caught up in a conspiracy. Violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2018Jason and the Argonauts (Penguin classics)
By Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Aaron Poochigian, Apollonius, Apollonius Of Rhodes, Apollonius of Apollonius of Rhodes. 2014
Translation in verse of Ancient Greek poem detailing the voyage of the hero Jason and his crew, the Argonauts--including Heracles…
and Orpheus, as they search for the Golden Fleece at the directive of King Pelias. They encounter treachery of all kinds, both from mortal and immortal foes. Some violence. 2014Sweet whispers, Brother Rush: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (Avon Flare Book, An)
By Virginia Hamilton. 2001
Fourteen-year-old Tree resents her working mother for leaving her in charge of her seventeen-year-old brother Dab, who is simple. But…
when she encounters her uncle's ghost, Tree comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems--and the power of love. For grades 6-9. C.S. King Award, Newbery Honor. 1982The hundred dresses
By Eleanor Estes. 2004
The girls in her class mock Wanda Petronski because she claims to have a hundred dresses lined up in her…
closet but wears the same faded dress everyday. And they tease her about her Polish last name. Then Wanda stops coming to school. For grades 3-6. Newbery Honor. 1944Frog and toad all year (An I can read book)
By Arnold Lobel. 1976
Five stories celebrating Frog and Toad's friendship and activities through all the seasons of the year, from sledding in winter…
to eating ice cream in summer. Beginning reader. For grades K-3. 1976Two classic works by English Puritan John Bunyan (1628-1688). In the allegorical tale Pilgrim's Progress, the protagonist, burdened by sin,…
leaves the City of Destruction to find Zion, the city of God. His journey embodies Christian teachings. In Grace Abounding, Bunyan recounts his conversion and spiritual growth. 2004Camp Nowhere (The nightmare Room Ser. #No. 9)
By R. L Stine. 2001
Nothing has been going right for Russell at summer camp, and he's tired of being called a wimp. But as…
a senior camper, he has to ride a canoe over Forbidden Falls. Legend says it's haunted by others who disappeared there. Could that be true? For grades 5-8. 2001Fear games (The nightmare Room Ser. #No. 1)
By R. L Stine. 2001
April Powers is one of twelve top students invited to an isolated Caribbean island for two weeks. Besides attending talks…
by visiting celebrities, they will participate in a Life Games competition for a large cash prize. But the group also faces an unanticipated evil challenge. For grades 5-8. 2001Scare school
By R. L Stine. 2001
Nervous new student Sam Waterbury doesn't like the old prison-looking Wilton Middle School. He feels even worse in the empty…
hallway when he encounters a hissing, three-foot-high, green rat creature with a HUMAN face! For grades 5-8. 2001Don't forget me!
By R. L Stine. 2000
Danielle wishes she were an only child and that her pesky little brother Peter would disappear. But she regrets that…
wish after she hypnotizes him while their parents are away and Peter begins to forget who he is. For grades 5-8. 2000Poppies at the Well
By Catrin Collier. 2013
Josephine Anderson, youngest of the immense Anderson clan, has an itch to travel and to put some distance between herself…
and Piney Woods, Louisiana, and she is determined to scratch it with a stint as a traveling actor for a murder mystery dinner show. With Beatrice Becklaw in the pilot's seat, the troupe of four amateur actors hit the circuit - and hit the end of the tour when a real dead body stops the show. Jo's fondness for Miss Bea is the impetus to find out just who ruined the tour, and the person she least suspects is the one she needs to watch. Set in the beautiful mountains of Colorado, Becklaw's Murder Mystery Tour is proof that sometimes the confines of the family compound is the best place to be, nutty family and all.Cuentos de Navidad
By Charles Dickens. 2012
En 2012 se cumplen doscientos años del nacimiento de Charles Dickens, el escritor por antonomasia de la Inglaterra victoriana, y…
uno de los autores más grandes de todos los tiempos. Entre sus obras más populares se cita siempre su extraordinaria novela corta Cuento de Navidad, donde retrata a un avaro ricachón, Ebenezer Scrooge, que recibe la visita moralizante de los espíritus de las navidades pasadas, las presentes y las futuras. Pero Dickens es autor de otros muchos relatos relacionados con la época navideña, que se reúnen, por primera vez en castellano, en este volumen. La Navidad es uno de los personajes dickensianos por excelencia, la época del año en la que sus asuntos favoritos, la pobreza, la caridad, la compasión, la ternura, la solidaridad o la esperanza, se dirimen y cobran mayor relevancia.Del abuso de las palabras (Serie Great Ideas #Volumen 35)
By John Locke. 2014
Ideas que han cambiado el mundo A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado…
la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. John Locke modificó el rumbo de la filosofía al asegurar que la razón es la llave al conocimiento. Opiniones, percepción, ideas, verdad o lenguaje son algunos de los temas tratados en estos textos, que sin duda forman parte de los que más han influido en el pensamiento occidental.The Nutcracker: The Original Holiday Classic
By E. T. Hoffman. 2018
On Christmas Eve, seven-year-old Marie and her eight-year-old brother Fritz anxiously await their Christmas gifts. When their godfather—a clock builder…
and toymaker—arrives, he unveils an ornate clockwork castle adorned with whirling figurines for the children. While Fritz plays with the clock, Marie is taken aside and given another gift—a nutcracker. After Fritz grabs the nutcracker from Marie and breaks its jaw by cracking too many nuts, their playtime ends and they head off to bed. When the clock strikes twelve, magic makes its way into this enduring tale and an epic battle ensues. This timeless classic, featuring all-new full-color and black-and-white illustrations by artist Arkady Roytman and abridged text by Gina Gold, is the perfect story to get anyone in the holiday spirit!Captain Lucy In The Home Sector (The World At War)
By Aline Havard. 2019
Excerpt: "If the young people who read this last story of Lucy Gordon’s army life are disappointed that the end…
of the war does not bring her home to America they cannot possibly be as disappointed as she herself. She hoped that the war had really finished with the armistice but, like lots of us, she found that there was a great deal left to do that she had not counted upon. Peace was slow in coming, and the American army overseas had its hands as full trying to hasten it as all America on this side had, and still has, in trying to get back to peace-time ways. The tangle of affairs in war-swept Europe is more than Lucy can understand, though she sees a little of that great unrest, and catches a glimpse of its hidden dangers, even in the Home Sector. She does what she can to help, generously, and, though peace is not come and America is still distant, she and Bob and all the Gordon family find happiness together, and look forward with brave confidence to the glorious future of the dear country to which they will before long be homeward bound."Captain Lucy and Lieutenant Bob (The World At War)
By Aline Havard. 2019
Excerpt from Captain Lucy and Lieutenant Bob: The war is as yet only beginning for Lucy Gor don, and the…
old, pleasant times are just ending, but, like every other girl in America, she is trying hard to find the courage and cheerfulness which have never yet been wanting in our Service and which are going to help America to win.