Books in Helbling Young Readers Classics series

Louisa May Alcott presented great life lessons in an entertaining and creative way in Little Women. This study guide uses the same approach, as young readers are encouraged to grow in creativity, compassion, and true character. Some key areas they will learn about include family life during the Civil War, facing death and loss, and following artistic pursuits. The Classics for Young Readers guides encourage teachers and students to interact with the greatest children’s literature ever written. Introduce your students to timeless classics and watch them discover characters with integrity and Christian virtue. Each guide contains vocabulary exercises, discussion questions, and creative activities. Students will learn to explore the texts and experience the life and times of the characters. The guides to Classics for Young Readers are reproducible for home and classroom use. "I am very impressed with the Classics for Young Readers and Guides. The reader will be inspired by these rediscovered gems and will find himself a better thinker in the bargain. The Christian community needs this material!" —Dr. Jim Stobaugh

O malvado Rei Minos, de Creta, tem um monstro terrível chamado Minotauro. Quando o Minotauro está com fome, Minos pede que o Rei Egeu lhe envie sete rapazes e sete moças para que o monstro possa comer. Um dia, o filho do Rei Egeu, Teseu, decide ir a Creta e matar o Minotauro. O que acontece quando Teseu chega a Creta? Ele poderá matar o terrível monstro?

Gulliver's Travels tells the story of Lemuel Gulliver, who, after shipwrecks & storms, finds himself in many strange lands. He finds himself in Lilliput, where people are less than six inches high, in Brobdingnang where people are as tall as church steeples, & in the Land of the Houyhnhnms, where the most important inhabitants are horses, not men. The adapted text retelling remains faithfyl to the original & is accompanied by beautiful illustrations on every pages.

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. PLOT: PART I—"THE OLD BUCCANEER" An old sailor, calling himself "the captain"—real name "Billy" Bones—comes to lodge at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the west English coast during the mid-1700s, paying the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, a few pennies to keep a lookout for a one-legged "seafaring man". A seaman with intact legs shows up, frightening Billy—who drinks far too much rum—into a stroke, and Billy tells Jim that his former shipmates covet the contents of his sea chest. After a visit from yet another man, Billy has another stroke and dies; Jim and his mother (his father has also died just a few days before) unlock the sea chest, finding some money, a journal, and a map. The local physician, Dr. Livesey, deduces that the map is of an island where a deceased pirate—Captain Flint—buried a vast treasure. The district squire, Trelawney, proposes buying a ship and going after the treasure, taking Livesey as ship's doctor and Jim as cabin boy. PART II—"THE SEA COOK" Several weeks later, Trelawney sends for Jim and Livesey and introduces them to "Long John" Silver, a one-legged Bristol tavern-keeper whom he has hired as ship's cook. (Silver enhances his outre attributes—crutch, pirate argot, etc.—with a talking parrot.) They also meet Captain Smollett, who tells them that he dislikes most of the crew on the voyage, which it seems everyone in Bristol knows is a search for treasure. After taking a few precautions, however, they set sail on Trelawny's schooner, the Hispaniola, for the distant island. During the voyage, the first mate, a drunkard, disappears overboard. And just before the island is sighted, Jim—concealed in an apple barrel—overhears Silver talking with two other crewmen. They are all former "gentlemen o'fortune" (pirates) in Flint's crew and have planned a mutiny. Jim alerts the captain, doctor, and squire, and they calculate that they will be seven to 19 against the mutineers and must pretend not to suspect anything until the treasure is found when they can surprise their adversaries. PART III—"MY SHORE ADVENTURE" But after the ship is anchored, Silver and some of the others go ashore, and two men who refuse to join the mutiny are killed—one with so loud a scream that everyone realizes there can be no more pretense. Jim has impulsively joined the shore party and covertly witnessed Silver committing one of the murders; now, in fleeing, he encounters a half-crazed Englishman, Ben Gunn, who tells him he was marooned here and can help against the mutineers in return for passage home and part of the treasure............... Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N.C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators.[1] During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books,[2] 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known.The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter just as the camera and photography began to compete with his craft.....

Wendy, Michael, and John are sleeping when the window of their nursery blows open and lets in a boy, Peter Pan, and his fairy, Tinker Bell. But Peter soon entices the three children from their beds and out through the window to Neverland. There, they encounter mermaids, fairies, the Lost Boys, and the Indian princess Tiger Lily and her tribe; and do battle with a villainous gang of pirates and their leader, the sinister Captain Hook, in a magical adventure which has enchanted generations of children and adults.