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182) The call of the wild
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Jack London's The call of the wild, about the adventures of a dog named Buck, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who was forcibly taken to the Klondike goldfields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
At the turn of eighteenth-century England, spirited Elizabeth Bennet copes with the suit of the snobbish Mr. Darcy while trying to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane and scatterbrained Lydia.
186) Kidnapped
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped," about David Balfour, who is kidnapped and thrown onto a ship, but manages to escape and make his way back through Scotland.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
An abridged retelling of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed.
193) Sleeping Beauty
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Series
Description
With a kiss, a sleeping princess is awakened from her cursed sleep. Charles Perrault's "The Sleeping Beauty" and the Brothers Grimm's "Little Briar Rose" tell the tale of a beautiful princess and a peaceful kingdom that fall under the spell of a jealous fairy bent on revenge.
The story of the Sleeping Beauty has enchanted the young and the young-at-heart for centuries, and has served as the inspiration for numerous adaptions, including the animated...
196) Black Beauty
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Series
Pub. Date
July 2017.
Description
Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of a horse in Victorian England as he recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
197) Kidnapped
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property
Author
Series
Classics illustrated volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Narrated by Paul Baumer, a young man fighting on the French front, Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" describes the extreme circumstances of the German soldiers of the First World War.