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The man in the iron mask
Par Alexandre Dumas. 1988
Written in the mid-nineteenth century, this sequel to The Three Musketeers (BR 7477) features those three men--older but still dashing.…
They become involved in a conspiracy to substitute a prisoner for his royal twin brother, Louis XIVIn dubious battle
Par John Steinbeck. 1936
Jim Nolan leads disgruntled migrant workers in a confrontation with California landowners during the depression. Bestseller after its original publication…
in 1936. Conveys several levels of meaning about social forces and poverty in addition to its portrayal of labor strife. Some strong language and some violenceFor whom the bell tolls
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1940
American Robert Jordan has joined the Republicans fighting against the Fascists during the Spanish civil war. He is on a…
mission to destroy a strategically located bridge with the help of a band of guerillas. At their camp he falls in love with Maria, a young torture victim. Some violenceGreen eggs and ham (Beginner Books(r) Ser.)
Par Seuss. 1960
In this rhyming story, Sam-I-am wants his companion to try this dish of green eggs and ham. Sam-I-am follows him…
everywhere begging him just to taste them. And finally Sam-I-am succeeds! For grades K-3. 1960The pearl
Par John Steinbeck. 1992
A folktale of lower California is the basis for this narrative about Kino, a simple fisherman, who finds an enormous…
pearl that promises to provide for all his family's needs. When it brings nothing but misfortune, Kino throws it back to the sea and resumes his difficult way of life. 1945The return of the native
Par Thomas Hardy. 1999
Clym Yeobright returns to barren Egdon Heath and, against his mother's advice, marries the willful Eustacia Vye. Later, disenchanted, Eustacia…
begins seeing Damon Wildeve, her former lover, who is married to Clym's cousin. Includes a glossary of unfamiliar regional terms as well as the author's later prefaces and postscripts. 1878Old Yeller
Par Fred Gipson, F. Gipson, Steven Polson. 1956
1860s Texas. Fourteen-year-old Travis at first resents the big, yellow stray dog that hangs around his home, but he comes…
to love and depend on him. With his father away on a cattle drive, Travis is the man of the house and looks to Old Yeller for help and protection. For grades 5-8The jungle (Penguin classics)
Par Upton Sinclair. 1985
Grim account of the deplorable conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry around 1900, as seen through the eyes of Lithuanian…
immigrant Jurgis Rudkus. When first published, the novel aroused the indignation of the American public and forced government investigations that led to the passage of pure food legislation. 1985 introduction. Some violence. 1906The story of Doctor Dolittle (Books of wonder)
Par Hugh Lofting. 1998
The adventures of a kind-hearted doctor who is fond of animals and understands their language. He travels to Africa with…
some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness. For grades 4-7. 1920The borrowers (Borrowers Ser. #1)
Par Mary Norton. 1953
Pod, Homily, and Arrietty are a family of tiny people who live beneath the floors of an old country house,…
borrowing what they need from humans. When Arrietty encounters a human boy, the endangered Borrowers must relocate. Prequel to The Borrowers Afield (RC 42266, BR 7026). For grades 3-6. 1952All quiet on the western front
Par Erich Remarque. 1975
Classic World War I novel depicting the horrors and futility of armed conflict. Nineteen-year-old German private Paul Baumer relates the…
daily routine of ordinary soldiers in the trenches and tells how warfare affected him and his three classmates. Portrays young men who may have escaped bullets but were destroyed by their combat experienceMadame Bovary: life in a country town
Par Gustave Flaubert. 1999
A young middle-class Frenchwoman, Emma Bovary, is bored with her husband (an inept doctor) and their country existence. Her romantic…
fantasies lead her astray, into adultery and self-destruction. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. Originally published in 1857The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Penguin English library)
Par Samuel Johnson. 1976
Allegory written in 1759 upon the death of the author's mother. Tells how the prince escapes from his happy valley…
in quest of a satisfactory object in life but returns to his paradise accepting human limitationsGuy Mannering (Waverly novels #v. 2)
Par Walter Scott. 1999
Young Harry Bertram, heir to the Ellangowan estate, is kidnapped and sent away from England by an unscrupulous lawyer who…
covets the property. Years later, when Harry returns to England after military service in India, he is recognized by an old gypsy woman and learns the secret of his past. 1814The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Par Daniel Defoe. 1999
After the death of his wife, Crusoe and his man, Friday, set sail from London to return to his beloved…
island. This 1719 sequel to Robinson Crusoe (RC 27138, BR 9250) contains an introduction and editorial notes by Joe Wheeler for Tyndale House PublishersVanity Fair: a novel without a hero
Par William Thackeray. 1999
Great Britain, early nineteenth century. Two young women--wellborn, humble Amelia Sedley and social-climbing, amoral Becky Sharp--meet at boarding school. Both…
marry, but Amelia's husband wants to leave her for Becky until he is killed at the Battle of Waterloo. 1847The great stone face
Par Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1991
A young boy is told that one day a great man will appear whose face resembles the features of a…
towering rock formation near his home. He grows to old age awaiting the man's arrival, unaware that it is he himself who resembles the Stone FaceThe snows of Kilimanjaro, and other stories
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1995
Ten stories written between 1927 and 1936. The title piece portrays a thwarted writer facing death on an African plain…
and composing in his mind all the tales he will not live to tell. Includes several selections about Nick Adams, an autobiographical characterA hazard of new fortunes
Par William Howells. 1994
New York City, 1880s. Basil March and Mr. Fulkerson establish a new cultural magazine sponsored by self-made millionaire Mr. Dryfoos.…
Dryfoos's son reluctantly becomes the publisher, although his socialist beliefs conflict with the magazine's policy. Tragedy strikes during a violent clash between protesting streetcar workers and policeMary Poppins (Mary Poppins Ser. #No. 1)
Par Mary Shepard, P. L Travers, P. Travers. 1997
An extraordinary English woman blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag to become the…
Banks family's new nanny. Mary Poppins introduces her elder charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences. Prequel to Mary Poppins Comes Back (DB 50918, BR 5488). For grades 4-7. 1934