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  • Gulliver's Travels

    Kathleen Thompson, Yoshi Miyake, Jonathan Swift

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Nov. 1, 1988)
    The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a country ruled by horses.
    Q

  • Ivanhoe

    Jan Gleiter, Rick Whipple, Kathleen Thompson, Sir Scott, Walter

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Nov. 1, 1988)
    A simplified retelling of the adventures of the Saxon knight Ivanhoe in 1194, the year of Richard the Lion-Hearted's return from the Third Crusade.

  • Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens, Jan Gleiter, Charles Shaw

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Nov. 1, 1988)
    The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.
    S

  • Frankenstein

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, Gary Kelley

    Paperback (Steck-Vaughn Company, June 1, 1991)
    The monster was supposed to be man's benefactor, but, scorned for his ugliness, he swears revenge on his creator and the human race.

  • Hamlet

    Kathleen Thompson, Jan Gleiter

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Nov. 1, 1988)
    An adaptation of Shakespeare's play in which Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, is urged by his father's ghost to avenge his murder by his wife and his brother who has seized the throne.
    M

  • Tom Sawyer

    June Edwards, Mark Twain, Joel Naprstek

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Feb. 1, 1981)
    A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
    W

  • Odyssey

    Homer, Konrad Hack, Diana Stewart

    Paperback (Steck-Vaughn Co, June 1, 1991)
    None
    M

  • Call of the Wild

    Jack London, Juan Carlos Barberis

    Paperback (Steck-Vaughn Company, June 1, 1991)
    1991 The Call of the Wild (P) by Jack London / Adapted by Lillian Nordlicht / Illustrated by Juan Barberis ***ISBN-13: 9780811468206 ***Pages: 48
    Y

  • Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

    Diana Stewart, Edgar Allan Poe, D. Shaw, Charles

    Paperback (Heinemann/Raintree, June 1, 1991)
    1991 Short Classics -- Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (P) by Edgar Allan Poe / Adapted by Diana Stewart / Illustrated by Charles Shaw ***ISBN-13: 9780811468411 ***Pages: 48
    W

  • Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens, Charles Shaw

    Paperback (Steck-Vaughn Company, June 1, 1991)
    1991 Great Expectations (P) by Charles Dickens / Adapted by Jan Gleiter / Illustrated by Charles Shaw ***ISBN-13: 9780811468237 ***Pages: 48
    S

  • Tale of 2 Cities

    Patricia Krapesh, Charles Dickens, Dickens

    Paperback (Steck-Vaughn Co, June 1, 1991)
    1991 A Tale of Two Cities (P) by Charles Dickens / Adapted by Patricia Krapesh / Illustrated by Charles Shaw ***ISBN-13: 9780811468404 ***Pages: 48
    M

  • Gulliver's Travels

    Jonathan Swift, Yoshi Miyake

    Paperback (Steck-Vaughn Company, June 1, 1991)
    1991 Gulliver's Travels (P) by Jonathan Swift / Adapted by Kathleen Thompson / Illustrated by Yoshi Miyake ***ISBN-13: 9780811468244 ***Pages: 48
    Q