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The Giver (illustrated; gift edition)
Author: Lois Lowry
ISBN-10: 0547424779
ISBN-13: 9780547424774
Published: 2011-10-25
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
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Book Description:
A Newbery Medal–winning classic is reinvented in a gift edition format with illustrations from the acclaimed artist Bagram Ibatoulline. Since winning the Newbery Medal in 1994, Lois Lowry’s The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time.This new illustrated edition, a celebration of the book’s standard of excellence and of Lowry’s illustrious writing, makes a perfect gift. The text is complemented by thirteennew illustrations from the acclaimed artist Bagram Ibatoulline. Also included are a new introduction by the author and her inspiring Newbery Medal acceptance speech. The new content and gift packaging now make it easier than ever to introduce young readers to this riveting modern classic, and provide a fresh edition for its legions of fans. The story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community. The Giver is the first in the trilogy of books that includes Gathering Blue and The Messenger.
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Bleak House (Crime Classics)
Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 1843548534
ISBN-13: 9781843548539
Published: 2011-05-01
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The first detective novel, with Inspector Bucket the prototype of the literary detective—Bleak House is both a literary classic and a classic of crime The case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce—a dispute over a vast fortune left by a miser who died intestate—has occupied the Court of Chancery for years. When Lady Dedlock faints upon recognizing the handwriting in one of the documents pertaining to the case, her sinister lawyer, Tulkinghorn, immediately suspects a hidden secret, and an opportunity for blackmail—but he is playing a dangerous game, and is soon found dead: a victim of murder. It is down to Detective Inspector Bucket to solve the mystery. Dickens was fascinated by the sensational crime cases of his day. His preoccupations—with crime and the legal system, with social injustice—are dramatically evident in Bleak House: at once a classic crime novel and a classic of world literature.
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A Wrinkle in Time
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
ISBN-10: 0374386145
ISBN-13: 9780374386146
Published: 1987-12
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (J)
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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger."Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."A tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem. A Wrinkle in Time is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal.
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Fahrenheit 451 (Cascades S.)
Author: Ray Bradbury
ISBN-10: 0003300277
ISBN-13: 9780003300277
Published: 1985-03-28
Publisher: Harper Collins Education
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A not-too-distant future where happiness is allocated on a TV screen, where individuals and scholars are outcasts and where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Montag, trained by the state to be a destroyer, throws away his can of kerosene and begins to read a book.
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Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Author: Anne Frank
ISBN-10: 0881035416
ISBN-13: 9780881035414
Published: 1993-06-01
Publisher: Turtleback
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland.
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Hatchet
Author: Gary Paulsen
ISBN-10: 0689840926
ISBN-13: 9780689840920
Published: 2000-04-01
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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Nicholas Nickleby (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 0679423079
ISBN-13: 9780679423072
Published: 1993-10-26
Publisher: Everyman's Library
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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Introduction by John Carey
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Out of My Mind
Author: Sharon M. Draper
ISBN-10: 1613831331
ISBN-13: 9781613831335
Published: 2012-05-01
Publisher: Perfection Learning
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“If there is one book teens and parents (and everyone else) should read this year, Out of My Mind should be it” (Denver Post).Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom—the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. And she’s determined to let everyone know it…somehow. In this breakthrough story—reminiscent of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly—from multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winner Sharon Draper, readers will come to know a brilliant mind and a brave spirit who will change forever how they look at anyone with a disability.
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The Pickwick Papers
Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 0812567196
ISBN-13: 9780812567199
Published: 1998-11-15
Publisher: Tor Classics
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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Pickwick Papers includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Nancy Springer. The Pickwick Club was founded by the most learned minds in London for the purpose of making a scientific tour of the world. Its distinguished members include Mr. Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.PC., presiding; Augustus Snodgrass; Nathaniel Winkle; and Tracy Tupman, Esq. Yet no sooner have these gentlemen begun their historic journey than they are set upon by a charming but notorious con man, Alfred Jingle. So begins a series of hilarious misadventures that takes the incorrigibly innocent Pickwicks wandering around England, coming in contact with some of the most colorful and comical characters in all fiction, including Dr. Slammer, Dismal Jemmy Hutley, Job Trotter, Wilkins Flasher, and Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz.This was Dickens' first novel--and remains his funniest and most loved.
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Number the Stars
Author: Lois Lowry
ISBN-10: 0440227534
ISBN-13: 9780440227533
Published: 1998-02-09
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.
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