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The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
Par C. S Lewis. 1997
Four English children find their way through a huge wardrobe in an old house to the mysterious land of Narnia,…
which is under the spell of the White Witch. Prequel to Prince Caspian, the Return to Narnia (BR 07238). For grades 4-7 and older readersJosefina's surprise: a Christmas story (The American Girls CollectionThe American Girls Collection #Bk. 3)
Par Valerie Tripp, Jean-Paul Tibbles, Susan McAliley. 1997
Christmas is near and Josefina, her sisters, and their aunt are getting ready. It has been a year since the…
girls lost their mother, and they hope this Christmas will be a little happier. But when they take out the altar cloth their mother made, they find it has been ruined by the flood earlier in the year. Sequel to Josefina Learns a Lesson (DB 45562, BR 11392). For grades 2-4Abby's un-valentine (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #No. 127)
Par Ann Martin. 1998
Valentine's Day is just a few weeks away, and everyone at school is getting in the spirit. Even Abby's twin,…
Anna, is excited. But Abby hates the idea; she doesn't like all that mushy stuff. So what is she going to do now that Ross has asked her to the Valentine Dance? For grades 4-7. 1998On the first day of May, Henry wakes up and informs Mudge that today is Henry's birthday. But all Mudge…
does is roll over and snore. It takes several promises of good treats to eat to get Mudge going. But then Henry and Mudge have the best day of all! For grades K-3Aunt Eater's mystery Christmas (I Can Read Bks.)
Par Doug Cushman. 1995
Aunt Eater, an anteater, is getting ready for a visit by her sister, Eliza. She has just finished her Christmas…
shopping when she spots an ad for a new mystery book by her favorite author. But before Aunt Eater can get a copy, she has to solve several mysteries of her own. For grades K-3The halloween tree
Par Ray Bradbury, Joseph Mugnaini. 1972
On Halloween night, eight boys arrange to meet their friend, Pipkin, at the haunted house outside of town. Before the…
others reach him, though, Pipkin is grabbed by a dark Something. For grades 4-7Molly learns a lesson: a school story (The American Girls CollectionThe American Girls Collection #Bk. 3)
Par Valerie Tripp, Jeanne Thieme, C. F. Payne. 1989
During World War II, Molly's third-grade class participates in the Lend-a-Hand Contest to help the war effort. The boys decide…
to collect tinfoil, and the girls decide to knit socks, but none of them can knit very well. At the last minute, Molly comes up with a new idea. Sequel to Meet Molly (DB 43831). For grades 2-4Samantha's surprise: a Christmas story
Par Maxine Schur. 1986
Samantha is sure Christmas 1904 will be the best ever. She has been invited to a party and has a…
new dress to wear. Then Grandmary tells her that Uncle Gard is bringing his girlfriend Cornelia with him for the holidays, and Samantha is afraid her plans will be ruined. Sequel to Samantha Learns a Lesson (DB 43842). For grades 2-4A midnight clear: stories for the Christmas season
Par Katherine Paterson. 1995
A collection of stories that the author wrote for her pastor husband to tell his congregation on Christmas Eves. In…
the title story, a boy who is scared by recurring visions of nuclear mushroom clouds finds comfort in helping a homeless old woman. In "Amazing Grace," a woman stranded when the car runs out of gas gives birth in a humble cabin on Christmas Eve. For grades 5-8Make a wish, Molly
Par Barbara Cohen, Miriam Cohen, Jan Jones. 1994
Molly is still adjusting to life in America when she learns about the custom of celebrating birthdays. But her first…
invitation to a birthday party comes during Passover, and Molly can't eat any of the beautiful cake. Embarrassed and unhappy, Molly feels left out until her own birthday produces several surprises. Sequel to Molly's Pilgrim (DB 21685, BR 5741). For grades 2-4 and older readersWerewolf skin (Goosebumps Ser. #No. 60)
Par R. L. Stine. 1997
Alex Hunter comes to Wolf Creek to spend several weeks with his aunt and uncle while his parents travel. He…
brings along his own camera and hopes to get lessons from his relatives, who are professional photographers. Alex gets two warnings when he arrives--stay out of the woods and away from the neighbors. For grades 4-7The biggest pumpkin ever
Par Steven Kroll. 1984
Two mice, one a house mouse and the other a field mouse, fall in love with the very same pumpkin.…
The house mouse intends to enter it in the town's pumpkin contest, and the field mouse intends to carve it into the world's biggest jack-o'-lantern for Halloween. For grades 2-4The twenty-four days before Christmas
Par Madeleine L'Engle. 1984
For seven-year-old Vicky Austin December is the most exciting month of the year. This year she's going to be an…
angel in the Christmas pageant. And, best of all, there is something special to do each day in observance of Advent. But what if the new baby comes during Christmas and Mother has to go to the hospital? How will they have Christmas without Mother? For grades 2-4 and older readersImani All Mine: A Novel
Par Connie Porter. 1999
"With authority and grace" (Essence), Imani All Mine tells the story of Tasha, a fourteen-year-old unwed mother of a baby…
girl. In her ghettoized world where poverty, racism, and danger are daily struggles, Tasha uses her savvy and humor to uncover the good hidden around her. The name she gives her daughter, Imani, is a sign of her determination and fundamental trust despite the odds against her: Imani means faith. Surrounding Tasha and Imani is a cast of memorable characters: Peanut, the boy Tasha likes, Eboni, her best friend, Miss Odetta, the neighborhood gossip, and Tasha's mother, Earlene, who's dating a new boyfriend. Tasha's voice speaks directly to both the special pain of poverty and the universal, unconquerable spirit of youth. Authentic in every detail, this is an unforgettable story. As Seventeen declared, "Porter's candid narrative will have you hooked from the opening sentence."&“A wonderful tragicomedy&” of a Mississippi family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of…
Delta Wedding (The New York Times). Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he&’s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel&’s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves Daniel, she&’s decided to have him institutionalized. Foolproof as the plan may seem, it comes with a kink—one that sets in motion a runaway scheme of mistaken identity, a hapless local widow, a reckless wedding, a dim-witted teenage bride, and a twist of dumb luck that lands this once-respectable Southern family in court to brave an embarrassing trial for murder. It&’s become the talk of Clay County. And the loose-tongued Edna Earle will tell you all about it. &“The most revered figure in contemporary American letters,&” said the New York Times of Eudora Welty, which also hailed The Ponder Heart—a winner of the William Dean Howells Medal which was adapted into both a Broadway play and a PBS Masterpiece series—as &“Miss Welty at her comic, compassionate best.&”As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
Par William Faulkner. 1957
A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of…
the Bundren family&’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. &“I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.&” —William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.The Best American Short Stories 2011: The Best American Series (The Best American Series)
Par Geraldine Brooks, Heidi Pitlor. 2011
Twenty of the best American short stories of 2011, chosen by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret…
Chord. The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks are full of deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often surprising humor. Richard Powers&’s &“To the Measures Fall&” is a comic meditation on the uses of literature in the course of a life. In the satirical &“The Sleep,&” Caitlin Horrocks puts her fictional prairie town to bed—the inhabitants hibernate through the long winter as a form of escape—while in Steve Millhauser&’s imagined town, the citizens are visited by ghostlike apparitions in &“Phantoms.&” Allegra Goodman&’s spare but beautiful &“La Vita Nuova&” finds a jilted fiancée letting her art class paint all over her wedding dress as a poignant act of release. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wryly captures the social change in the air in Lagos, Nigeria, in &“Ceiling,&” her story of a wealthy young man who is not entirely at ease with what his life has become. As Brooks perused these richly imagined and varied landscapes, she found that it was like walking into the best kind of party, where you can hole up in a corner with old friends for a while, then launch out among interesting strangers.The Best American Short Stories 2011 also includes contributions from: Megan Mayhew Bergman · Tom Bissell • Jennifer Egan • Nathan Englander • Ehud Havazelet • Bret Anthony Johnston • Claire Keegan • Sam Lipsyte • Rebecca Makkai • Elizabeth McCracken • Ricardo Nuila • Joyce Carol Oates • Jess Row • George Saunders • Mark SloukaThe World Is Round
Par Gertrude Stein. 1929
Published to commemorate its 75th anniversary, The World Is Round brings back into print the classic story created by Gertrude…
Stein and Clement Hurd.Written in her unique prose style, Gertrude Stein's The World Is Round chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Rose—a whimsical tale that delights in wordplay and sound while exploring the ideas of personal identity and individuality. This stunning volume replicates the original 1939 edition to a T, including all of Clement Hurd's original blue-and-white art printed on the rose-pink paper that Stein insisted upon. Also featured here are two essays that provide an inside view to the making of the book. The first, a foreword by Clement Hurd's son, author and illustrator Thacher Hurd, includes previously unpublished photographs and sheds light on a creative family life in Vermont, where his father and mother, author Edith Thacher Hurd, often collaborated on children's books. The second essay, an afterword by Edith Thacher Hurd, takes readers behind the scenes of the making of The World Is Round, including the numerous letters exchanged between Hurd and Stein as well as images of Stein with the real-life Rose and her white poodle, Love.Pears on a Willow Tree
Par Leslie Pietrzyk. 1998
Pears on a Willow Tree is a multigenerational roadmap of love and hate, distance and closeness, and the lure of…
roots that both bind and sustain us all.The Marchewka women are inseparable. They relish the joys of family gatherings; from preparing traditional holiday meals to organizing a wedding in which each of them is given a specific task -- whether it's sewing the bridal gown or preserving pickles as a gift to the newlyweds. Bound together by recipes, reminiscences and tangled relationships, these women are the foundation of a dignified, compassionate family--one that has learned to survive the hardships of emigration and assimilation in twentieth-century America.But as the century evolves, so does each succeeding generation. As the older women keep a tight hold on the family traditions passed from mother to daughter, the younger women are dealing with more modern problems, wounds not easily healed by the advice of a local priest or a kind word from mother.Amy is separated by four generations from her great-grandmother Rose, who emigrated from Poland. Rose's daughter Helen adjusted to the family's new home in a way her mother never could, while at the same time accepting the importance of Old Country ways. But Helen's daughter Ginger finds herself suffocating within the close-knit family, the first Marchewka woman to leave Detroit for the adventure of life beyond the reach of her mother and grandmother.It's in the American West that Giner raises her daughter Amy, uprooted from the safety of kitchens perfuned by the aroma of freshly baked poppy seed cake and pierogi made by hand by generations of women. But Amy is about to realize that there may be room in her heart for both the Old World and the New.1984: Nineteen Eighty-four (Sparknotes Literature Guide Ser. #11)
Par George Orwell. 1983
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell&’s 1984 takes on new…
life in this edition. &“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.&”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell&’s masterpiece, &“1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.&” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell&’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.