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Ramona the pest (Ramona Ser. #2)
Par Beverly Cleary. 2002
The hundred dresses
Par 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. 1944Pippi in the South Seas (Pippi Longstocking Ser.)
Par Astrid Lindgren. 1959
Pippi takes her friends Annika and Tommy with her to Kurrekurredutt Island in the South Seas, where her father is…
king. Sequel to Pippi Longstocking (BR 16298). For grades 3-6. 1959The enchanted castle (Puffin Classics Ser.)
Par E Nesbit. 2004
During the winter holiday, three English siblings Gerald, Jimmy, and Kathleen, with their friend, Mabel, discover a magic ring that…
leads them on strange adventures. They try to control the powers of the ring and solve the mystery of the enchanted castle. For grades 4-7. 1907Frog and toad all year (An I can read book)
Par 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. 2004Men against the sea
Par Charles Nordhoff. 2003
1789. Following the Mutiny on the Bounty (BR 8669), Captain Bligh and eighteen loyal men are set adrift in the…
South Pacific on a twenty-three-foot open launch. Alone on uncharted waters, the crew struggles to survive the 3,600-mile voyage to the Dutch colony of Timor in the East Indies. 1933Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Works In Translation Ser.)
Par H. C Andersen. 2004
Thirteen short fairy stories, translated in 2004 by Naomi Lewis, with a biography of the Danish author and introductory headnotes.…
Includes old favorites and the less familiar "The Flying Trunk" and "The Goblin at the Grocer's." For grades 4-7 and older readers. 1840National Velvet
Par Enid Bagnold. 1953
Classic story of a girl and her horse. Fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown is determined to turn the unruly piebald horse she…
won in a raffle into a champion. But it will take more than just hard work and dedication to win the Grand National steeplechase. For grades 6-9. 1935Pitcairn's Island
Par Charles Nordhoff. 1934
South Pacific, 1790s-1800s. Fletcher Christian, his fellow H.M.S. Bounty mutineers, and their Polynesian wives flee Tahiti for Pitcairn's Island. Living…
undiscovered for eighteen years, they establish a primitive but thriving settlement until a bitter struggle for vengeance shatters the peace. Sequel to Men against the Sea (BR 15979). 1934Of human bondage (Modern Library)
Par W. Somerset Maugham. 1999
Semiautobiographical novel of obsessive love. Philip Carey, a sensitive, talented orphan with a club foot, comes to live with his…
vicar uncle. Philip studies art in Paris, returns to London to take up medicine, and begins a life-altering affair with Mildred, a waitress. 1999 introduction by Gore Vidal. 1915Jo's boys (Bantam classic)
Par Louisa May Alcott. 1995
Follows the lives of Daisy and Demi, Nat and Dan, and the rest of Aunt Jo's little men and women…
as they mature. Concludes the series about the March family. Sequel to Little Men (BR 12486). For grades 6-9 and older readers. 1886The Kreutzer sonata and other stories (Penguin classics)
Par Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff. 1985
Four short stories by the nineteenth-century Russian author. In the title piece, a husband confesses to being so consumed by…
sexual jealousy that he feels compelled to murder his wife. The public outcry against the story published in 1890 caused Tolstoy to write the postface included here. 1985How green was my valley
Par Richard Llewellyn. 1997
Before leaving his childhood home, Huw Morgan reminisces about his youth in South Wales. He remembers when the coal mines…
still flourished and family members and friends fought, loved, laughed, and cried as they struggled to survive labor troubles and hard times in the valley. National Book Award. 1939Roughing it (Signet classic)
Par Mark Twain. 1980
A humorous account loosely based on the celebrated author's life during the years 1861-1867. Mark Twain tries his hand at…
prospecting, speculating, laboring, and, more successfully, reporting. His exaggerated adventures take him across the frontier plains to California and then to Hawaii. 1962 foreword by Leonard Kriegel. 1872About love and other stories (Oxford world's classics)
Par Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 2004
Seventeen short stories by the nineteenth-century Russian writer. In the title piece a lonely bachelor tells a sad tale of…
undeclared love and the toll it exacts. The collection includes "The Lady with the Little Dog" (1899), "Gusev" (1890), and "Rothschild's Violin" (1894). Translation by Rosamund Bartlett. 2004Essential stories (Modern Library Classics Ser.)
Par V. S Pritchett. 1997
Jeremy Treglown, a biographer of Pritchett (1900-1997), assembles sixteen of Pritchett's short stories that exhibit his legendary skills. "A Serious…
Question" explores a failing, childless marriage. "The Lion's Den" is autobiographical and "Our Oldest Friend" is an examination of what it means to be rejected. 2005The complete tales of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Par A. A. Milne. 1994
The adventures of Christopher Robin, a boy, and his favorite companions--Winnie-the-Pooh, a bear; Eeyore, an old grey donkey; and Rabbit,…
Piglet, Kanga, and Baby Roo. Contains the unabridged texts of Winnie-the-Pooh, first published in 1926, and The House at Pooh Corner, from 1928. For grades K-3 and older readersArrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth
Par Sinclair Lewis. 2002
Three early-twentieth-century American classics by Nobel Prize-winning author. In Arrowsmith, an idealistic young doctor is disillusioned by greedy and self-serving…
colleagues. Elmer Gantry takes aim against the hypocrisy of a tent-show evangelist. In Dodsworth, a retired auto maker's dull marriage comes unglued during a European tour. 2002The tombs of Atuan
Par Ursula K Le Guin. 2001
Arha is taken from her parents to be trained as high priestess to the Old Ones in the Atuan tombs.…
She endures her bleak captivity until a trespasser violates her domain in his search for the tombs' greatest treasure. Sequel to A Wizard of Earthsea (BR 7742). For grades 6-9. 1970