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Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Captains Courageous is a novel by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic.
The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers,...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
v, 292 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phileas Fogg bets his friends he can circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. So he sets out from London with his faithful servant, Passepartout, on an incredible journey,
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
First published in 1903, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" is the charming and classic children's novel beloved the world over. Written by the American author and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, it is the story of young and poor Rebecca Rowena Randall, who goes to live with her spinster aunts in the town of Riverboro when she is ten years-old. Rebecca's father had died three years before and the family farm had become heavily indebted. In order to ease the...
5) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Baronet
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
Large print ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old orphaned Oliver Twist escapes a workhouse and travels to London to seek a better life.