Books with author Richard Smith

Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its place among the classics of children's literature.

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Read by Lois Smith3 hours 40 minutes, 2 cassettesMary Alice and Grandma Dowdel return for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when fifteen-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. Her extended visit is filled with moonlit schemes, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways.Wise, exuberant, and slyly heartwarming, Mary Alice's story is a fully satisfying companion to the celebrated A Long Way from Chicago.

The remarkable adventures of the furry little YAHBUTS when the YEGGS descended on their beautiful island. The furry little Yahbuts enjoyed a carefree life on their beautiful island in the North Atlantic. They had two kind protectors-the Noumof and his sister, the Griboff-who flew over the island in their sailing flying machine once a year to make sure everything was all right.

Title: The Story of Mont Blanc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<Source Library> British Library<Contributors> Smith, Albert Richard; <Original Pub Date> 1853.<Physical Description> 12º.<Shelfmark> 10195.b.17.

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The stories are transcribed from voluminous illustrated diaries kept by the author during almost nine years in Japan (collecting exhibits for the British Museum) during the latter part of the nineteenth century. In total, there are 57 different ghost stories, telling tales of love and passion, revenge, strange ghosts and eerie gods, mountains, trees and flowers, history, magic, dragons, murder and suicide.

Excerpt from The Confederate Spelling Book, With Reading Lessons for the Young: Adapted to the Use of Schools or for Private InstructionIt will be observed that this system of classification has no connection with those quack expedients which, under the name of Learning Made Easy, Reading Without Tears, etc. Require a child to wade through a book to learn his letters. It is believed that profuse explanations Obscure a subject and confuse the learner. A text book Should present its subject. In aclear, simple manner; and if it fulfil. These conditions, then the briefer the better. It should avail itself of every possible advantage Of classification and arrangement, so as to reduce the number of demands upon the memory, and make facts mutually the guides to each other. Having done this, it should next be remembered,' by teacher and by pupil, that. There is no royal road to learning no easy path by which the lazy may become wise. Industrious and faithful study, and perfect mastery of every lesson; are indispensable to the acquiring of an edu cation. These habits it is the duty of parentsa and teachers to instil, and of pupils to attain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.