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1) Heidi
Author
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical backround of the story.
2) Little women
Author
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
7) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
64 p. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Dickens's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
8) The odyssey
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.