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"Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass Sea Snail who holds the key to the greatest mystery of all."--Cover.

2) Black Beauty

Author

Sewell, Anna

Series

Formats

Book, CD, Graphic Novel, Large Print, Playaway

Description

"Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that...

3) Little women: retold from the Louisa May Alcott original

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Series

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.

4) The Iliad

Author

Homer

Series

The Classics of Greece and Rome
İlyada
Everyman's library volume 60
Classic Starts®
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Formats

Book, Audio Cassette, CD

Description

Due to a lack of biographical evidence regarding the identity of Homer it has been suggested that the two great works attributed to him, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" may in fact be the work of multiple authors passed down through a long oral tradition. While scholarship on the subject will likely never definitely prove one way or the other, it is now generally accepted that these two great epic poems are the work of a single Greek author, Homer,...

5) Gulliver's travels

Author

Woodside, Martin

Series

Description

An abridged version of the voyages of the eighteenth-century Englishman Lemuel Gulliver, that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.

6) The Swiss family Robinson

Author

Tait, Chris

Series

Description

An abridged version of the story that relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.

7) Black Beauty: retold from the Anna Sewell original

Author

Church, Lisa R

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Description

An abridged version of Black Beauty's experiences with both good and bad masters in nineteenth-century England.

8) The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Author

Olmstead, Kathleen

Series

Pub. Date

[2006]

Description

An abridged version of the tale of a kind and well-respected doctor who can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.

9) Greek myths

Author

Namm, Diane

Series

Pub. Date

[2011]

Description

From Icarus's legendary flight to Orpheus's trip to the underworld,this edition introduces young readers to classic Greek myths.

10) Grimm's fairy tales

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Series

Pub. Date

c2011

Description

Contains retellings of eleven classic Grimm's fairy tales, including "Rapunzel," "Cinderella," "Rumpelstiltskin," and "The Brave Little Tailor."

11) Journey to the center of the earth

Author

Olmstead, Kathleen

Series

Pub. Date

2011

Description

Professor Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans explore a volcanic crater in Iceland that leads them to the center of the Earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.

12) The odyssey

Author

Zamorsky, Tania

Series

Pub. Date

c2011

Description

An abridged retelling of Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son scheme to protect his throne.

13) Great expectations

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2010

Description

The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.

14) The phantom of the opera

Author

Namm, Diane

Series

Pub. Date

℗♭2008

Description

Under the Paris Opera House lives a disfigured musical genius who uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer.

15) The adventures of Robin Hood

Author

Burrows, John

Series

Classic Starts

Pub. Date

[2005]

Description

An abridged version of the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.

16) Arabian nights

Author

Woodside, Martin

Series

Pub. Date

[2008]

Description

An abridged version of the tale of Scheherazade, daughter of King Shahryar's advisor, who tells her husband, the king, a different story every night to keep him from fulfilling his plan to kill her in the morning.

17) Peter Pan

Author

Zamorsky, Tania

Series

Pub. Date

[2009]

Description

An abridged retelling of the adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.

18) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm: retold from the Kate Douglas Wiggin original

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Pub. Date

[2007]

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