Stewart Ross
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Examines fourteen of the greatest explorers and expeditions in history and explains the impact they had on people's perception of the world, in a book with unfolding cross sections.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
An enchanting graphic novel about a feud, a friendship, and two girls forever changed. Based on the beautifully hand-crafted animated adventure, WolfWalkers, this graphic novel features an introduction and exclusive original art from film co-creator Tomm Moore and co-Art Director Maria Pareja. Watch the stunning, Golden Globe-nominated film available on Apple TV+ now.
In a time of superstition and magic, a young apprentice
3) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens, 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 of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized...