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Author
Series
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
"Its been five years since Anne came to Green Gables and shes quite grown-uppish now. True shes more interested in writing about love than falling in it, and her nose still has seven freckles. But as the new teacher at her old school, shes left her days of breaking slates and walking ridgepoles behind. Shes determined not to get into any more trouble. Then again, one cant get over the habit of being a little girl all at once" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who comes to live on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
[Abridged ed.].
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of ten-year-old Mary who, after the death of her parents, comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
NC 870L
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
v, 153 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The abridged adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
14) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
v, 153 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the novel in which a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
NC 1040L
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.
16) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
vi, 151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
17) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
vi, 151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Englishman Robinson Crusoe, who, after becoming the sole survivor of a 1659 shipwreck, lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.
20) White Fang
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with man.