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While clever Freddy the pig tries to find out if Mrs. Bean's long-lost brother is really who he claims to be, he also attends high school so that he will be eligible to play in the big football game between Centerboro and Tushville.

"Paul et Virginie" est un roman de l'écrivain français Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, publié en 1788. L'histoire se déroule sur l'île Maurice et met en scène deux personnages principaux, Paul et Virginie, qui ont grandi ensemble et sont profondément amoureux. Paul et Virginie sont élevés dans une communauté harmonieuse, entourés de nature luxuriante et de valeurs morales. Leur amour innocent et pur est présenté comme un modèle d'idéal romantique....

Fifty Famous Stories Retold (1895), the classic collection of lore recounted by James Baldwin, serves as an early foundation for the love of literature. This volume was widely used in the United States public school system as a primer of many of the most enduring stories of Western culture. What all these stories share is their indelible mark in the worlds of letters, art, music, and drama; while these are the elemental blocks for continued literary...

Nancy Rawles pens a moving story about Huck Finn's slave friend Jim, told through the eyes of the wife Jim was forced to leave behind. Sadie shares her story of loss with her granddaughter as they weave Sadie's most treasured items-her mother's knife, a piece of a bowl from Africa, a piece of Jim's hat found when he was thought to be dead-into a quilt.

"In this delightful dive into the bygone world of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and troublesome and ebullient Toad of Toad Hall are joined by a young mole lady, Beryl, and her dear friend, Rabbit. There are adventures, kidnappings, lost letters, and family secrets-lavishly illustrated throughout by award-winning artist Kathleen Jennings. Praise for Kij Johnson: "The Fox Woman immediately...

Graphic novel version of the classic story of a young man and a young woman whose feuding families refuse to allow them to love one another.

This final book consists of Montgomery's final sequel to her internationally bestselling Anne of Green Gables. In an unusual twist to her writing style, Montgomery employs a mix of stories, poems, and vignettes, not telling one particular narrative but instead presenting snapshots of new and familiar residents of Glen St. Mary, of Anne and her family, and of their discussions around the poems composed by Anne and later by her son Walter. In these...

Carter Lewis is having trouble making it through The legend of Sleepy Hollow, so his cousin Isabelle, suggests that he use his uncle's virtual reality machine to enter into the book as a character--and meet the Headless Horseman up-close and personal.

"From 15011505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. Michelangelo is a virtual unknown when he returns to Florence and wins the commission to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures of all time: David. Even though...

"Ann Petry's first collection of short stories speaks of the private, intensely individual experience that underlie the developing consciousness of Black people in America today. While Mrs. Petry does not lose sight of the bitter realities that mark life in the Black community, it is her refreshing distinction as a writer that she is able to depict joys as well as sorrows, triumphs as well as tragedies. Her first story, "Miss Muriel," introduces the...