Lynd Ward

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1) The Swiss family Robinson

Author

Wyss, Johann David

Series

Timeless Classics
Treasury of illustrated classics
Companion library
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Lexile measure

NC 1190L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming.

2) The biggest bear

Author

Ward, Lynd

Series

Caldecott medal book
Weston Woods read-along CD
Read-along cassette

Lexile measure

770L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook Cassette, CD + Book

Description

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Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.

3) Johnny Tremain: a novel for old & young

Author

Forbes, Esther

Lexile measure

840L

Language

English

Description

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Johnny Tremain is fourteen and apprenticed to a silversmith. He is gay and clever until a tragic accident which leaves his right hand useless. Johnny becomes a dispatch rider where he meets Boston patriots and learns that his hand can be cured.

4) Johnny Tremain

Author

Forbes, Esther

Series

Keith Jennison book

Lexile measure

840L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print

Description

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Fourteen-year-old Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith with a bright future ahead of him, injures his hand in a tragic accident, forcing him to look for other work. In his new job as a horse-boy, riding for the patriotic newspaper, The Boston Observer, and as a messenger for the Sons of Liberty, he encounters John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Dr. Joseph Warren. Soon Johnny is involved in the pivotal events shaping the American Revolution from the...

5) Martin Luther

Author

McNeer, May

Pub. Date

1953

Physical Desc

95 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

6) The silver pony: a story in pictures

Author

Ward, Lynd

Pub. Date

1973

Physical Desc

174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

Description

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Recounts without words the adventures of a boy and his winged horse.

7) The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Author

Defoe, Daniel

Series

Illustrated junior library

Pub. Date

1946

Physical Desc

378 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

8) The little red lighthouse and the great gray bridge

Author

Swift, Hildegarde Hoyt

Lexile measure

530L

Language

English

Description

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A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that it is still useful and has an important job to do.

9) The cat who went to heaven

Author

Coatsworth, Elizabeth

Series

Newbery Medal award

Lexile measure

1000L

Language

English

Description

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A little cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brings him good fortune.

10) Brady

Author

Fritz, Jean

Lexile measure

880L

Language

English

11) Mad man's drum: a novel in woodcuts

Author

Ward, Lynd

Pub. Date

2005

Edition

Dover ed.

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

Description

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A wordless novel in which a slaver, who killed an African man and stole his drum, finds his son playing the instrument and insists he be studious instead of musical, leading the boy to a life of study and questioning happiness and success as an adult.

12) Storyteller without words: the wood engravings of Lynd Ward

Author

Ward, Lynd

Pub. Date

1974

Physical Desc

310 pages, 73 unnumbered pages (chiefly illustrations) 28 x 28 cm

Language

English

13) Johnny Tremain: a story of Boston in revolt

Author

Forbes, Esther

Lexile measure

840L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

Description

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"After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution." -- Fourteen-year-old Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith with a bright future, injures his hand in an accident, forcing him to look for other work. In his new job as a horse boy, he encounters John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Dr. Joseph Warren. Soon Johnny is involved in pivotal events from the...