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A simplified, abridged version of one case solved by the resourceful British detective, Sherlock Holmes, and an essay focusing on the story's lessons of curiosity.

A simplified, abridged version of the classic, set in medieval Paris, about the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral who struggles to save a gypsy dancer from being unjustly executed. Accompanied by a short biography of Victor Hugo and an essayfocusing on the story's lesson on compassion.

A simplified, abridged version of the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by a short biography of Mark Twain and an essay focusing on the story's lessons of imagination.

A simplified, abridged version of the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life, accompanied by a short biography of Johann Wyss and an essay focusing on the story's lessons of teamwork.

Baron, a German shepard rescue dog, and his partner, Ted, search for a little girl who is lost in the wilderness.

Near the close of the Revolutionary War in 1782, fourteen-year-old Anne Mott of Westchester County, New York, calls on her Quaker beliefs to protect her family and property from British raiders when a long-time friend puts them at risk.

After other boys ridicule the idea of going to the circus, Billy almost passes up the chance to see one for the first time.

During a yellow fever epidemic in 1803, Esther and Archibald Gracie move their family from Manhattan to their country home, where the children search for an underground passageway and a mysterious visitor to the mansion that would later be home to the mayors of New York City.In 1803, the Gracie family moves to their country home, where the children search for an underground passageway and a mysterious visitor to what would later be home to New York's mayors

When Durand let himself be talked into joining the Lincoln Junior High basketball squad, he failed to realize how awkward his bony six-foot-four frame might be on the court