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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Brontë |
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s… |
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Auntie Tiger
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Laurence Yep |
In this version of Red Riding Hood set in China, Big Sister sets aside her differences with Little Sister to rescue her from a tiger in disguise. |
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The Sword and the Circle
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Rosemary Sutcliff,Malory, Thomas, Sir |
A retelling of the adventures and exploits of King Arthur and his knights at the court of Camelot and elsewhere in the land of the Britons. |
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Fantasy Classics
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Lance Tooks,H.P. Lovecraft,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Rod Lott,Antonella Caputo,Tom Pomplun,Lord Dunsany,Ben Avery,L. Frank Baum,Clark Ashton Smith |
After the fire / Lord Dunsany ; illustrated by (Rachel Masilamani) --
Fantasmagoriana : a prologue to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Rod Lott ; illustrated by (Mark A. Nelson) --
Frankenstein / by M… |
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King Lear
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Gareth Hinds |
Named one of the 10 best graphic novels of 2008 for youth by Booklist. This adaptation features loose, flowing page layouts, often without panel borders, and the setting is a melange of historical pe… |
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Kidnapped!
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Thomas, Roy |
Retells, in comic book format, Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of sixteen-year-old David Balfour who, after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the … |
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The ancient Persians
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Virginia Schomp |
"A retelling of several important ancient Persian myths, with background information describing the history, geography, belief systems, and customs of the ancient Persians"--Provided by publisher. |
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The hero Beowulf
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Eric A. Kimmel |
A simple, brief retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, to save the people of Heorot Hall from the terrible monster, Grendel. |
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The three little tamales
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Eric A. Kimmel |
In this variation of "The Three Little Pigs" set in the Southwest, three little tamales escape from a restaurant before they can be eaten, and set up homes in the prairie, cornfield, and desert. |
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Disney's Treasure Planet
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Kiki Thorpe |
After young Jim Hawkins finds a map where a legendary pirate hid his treasure horde he journeys by space ship to locate the pirate's treasure on Treasure Planet. |
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Gilgamesh
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Herbert Mason |
Story of a great king and his doomed friend passed on by the Babylonians. |
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King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table.
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Emma Gelders Sterne |
When he pulls a sword from a stone, Arthur fulfills his destiny to become king of England and together with his knights of the Round Table ushers in a golden age of chivalry. |
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Agatha Christie
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Mark Campbell |
Since her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular charact… |
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The rabbit and the turtle
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Eric Carle |
Retellings of eleven of Aesop's fables. |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of Abbey Grange
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Vincent Goodwin |
Retells in graphic novel format a story featuring the great English detective Sherlock Holmes. |
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Le Morte d'Arthur
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Thomas Malory |
**Le Morte d'Arthur** (originally spelled **Le Morte Darthur**, ungrammatical Middle French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales a… |
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Fables
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Roger L'Estrange,Percy J. Billinghurst,Joseph Jacobs,Aesop |
The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, su… |
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Soap, soap, soap ~ Jabón, jabón, jabón
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Elizabeth O Dulemba |
Hugo's mamá sends him to the store to buy soap… Of course, Hugo takes the long way there which gets him into loads of trouble and plenty of mud… With all of his adventures, he keeps forgetting what h… |
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The burial at Thebes
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Seamus Heaney |
Sophocles' play stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Agai… |
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Verdi's Shakespeare
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Garry Wills |
This book is a dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare -- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Ga… |
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