Deanna McFadden
2) Little men
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
An abridged version of the Louisa May Alcott novel that follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
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Language
English
Description
When young Pip accidentally meets a convict out in the marsh one Christmas Eve, he has no idea that his life is about to change-forever. The amazing events following that encounter, and the strange tale of Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella, have made Great Expectations a must-read since it was first serialized in 1860. Now, young readers can enjoy Dickens's engrossing story in this simplified yet thrilling version. When young Pip accidentally...
4) Little Women
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Series
Language
English
Description
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve.
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, set during the Civil War, has always captivated even the most reluctant readers. Little girls, especially,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time... there were two brothers, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, who gave the world some of the best-loved fairy tales ever written. From "Cinderella" and "Rumpelstiltskin" to "Snow White" and "The Brave Little Tailor," this charming anthology offers young readers a wonderful introduction to 12 of the Grimms' most popular stories. Once upon a time... there were two brothers, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, who gave the world some of the best-loved fairy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
[Abridged ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
151 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the many adventures of English gentleman Phileas Fogg as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.
7) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
[Abridged ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
v, 153 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abriged version of the novel in which a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
[Abridged ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
151 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of Kate Douglas Wiggin's classic story of talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca's adventures after she leaves her home at Sunnybrook Farm to go live in town with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
153 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the novel chronicling the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
149 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged retelling of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...