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Author
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Join Ebenezer Scrooge--a cold-hearted, lonely old man--one Christmas eve as he is visited by the Ghost of Jacob Marley, his sole friend and former business partner. The troubled phantom has come to tell Scrooge that in order for him to avoid Marley's horrible fate, Scrooge must heed the warnings of Three Spirits who will haunt him that very night.
Language
English
Description
Eden Starling is the glamorous singing diva of a theatre in Victorian London. Along with her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit, Eden selfishly plans to make the entire company of theatre performers stay and rehearse on Christmas Day. Not even Eden's costume designer and childhood friend, Catherine, can talk Eden out of her self-centered tantrum. It will be up to three very unusual Christmas Spirits to take Eden on a fantastical holiday journey that will open...
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Old Ebenezer Scrooge, the meanest miser in London, is visited one Christmas eve by three spirits who change his life forever. George C. Scott stars as Scrooge in this critically acclaimed version of Charles Dickens' holiday classic.
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
50th anniversary ed. ; Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas and reforms his heartless and money-grubbing ways after being visited on Christmas Eve by four ghosts. Anniversary edition.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (69 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic retelling of the classic novel, Ebenezer Scrooge is warned by the ghost of Marley, his former partner, that he will be visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future.
Author
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bah, humbug! Ebenezer Scrooge doesn't understand why everyone is so cheerful around Christmas time. Rich and greedy, Scrooge doesn't even want to let his clerk, Bob Cratchit, spend time with his family on Christmas Eve. But when Scrooge goes home late one night, a ghost tells him that he will be visited by three spirits—and that he must listen to what they have to say. Will Scrooge be able learn the true meaning of Christmas, or will he be greedy...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides new, food-themed lyrics to the classic Christmas song, "Deck the Halls", as a family gathers for a meal that involves building a snowman from tomatoes, playing olive hockey, and being bored by aunts and uncles.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
After being visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve, Holly Chase chooses not to mend her spoiled ways. Upon her death Holly discovers her selfishness has caused her to work for eternity as a ghost of Christmas past. Every year Project Scrooge saves another miserly grouch, and Holly stays frozen at seventeen while her family and friends go on living without her. But this year, everything is about to change....
Publisher
Disney
Language
English
Formats
Description
Make the season merry as Mickey, Goofy, Donald, and all their pals star in a heartwarming retelling of Dickens' unforgettable holiday tale. Ebenezer Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck) is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the guidance of some wise ghosts (Goofy and Jiminy Cricket) and a bunch of newfound friends, Scrooge learns to embrace the spirit of the season.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories. The old miser Ebenezer Scrooge cares nothing for family, friends, love or Christmas. All he cares about is money. Then one Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts: Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet To Come. These encounters leave Scrooge deeply moved and forever changed. Historians believe that A Christmas
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Series
Pub. Date
1941
Edition
Memorial ed.
Physical Desc
84 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Kate Douglas Wiggin was an important reformer of children's education at the turn of the century. During a period when children's use in society was often little more than for cheap labor, Kate Douglas Wiggin was dedicated to the betterment of youth. She was the first person to found a free kindergarten school in San Francisco in 1878. Her passion for children's rights carried over to her successful career as an author of children's books. In her...