N. C Wyeth
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English
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Before Andrew and Jamie, there was N. C. Wyeth. The star student of Howard Pyle's Brandywine School, Newell Convers Wyeth (1882–1945) created more than 3,000 illustrations in the course of his career. This original full-color collection focuses on his most popular illustrations, featuring early works that date from 1910-30. More than 100 iconic images include scenes from The Last of the Mohicans, The Mysterious Stranger, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe,...
3) The yearling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized...
5) Robin Hood
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English
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Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny.
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Series
Scribner storybook classic volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
52 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
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An abridged version of the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.
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English
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"Letters of a Woman Homesteader" is the fascinating true tale of life on the American frontier by Elinore Pruitt Stewart. First published in 1914, Stewart's work is a collection of 26 letters written by Stewart from 1909 to 1914 which follow her adventures in Wyoming. Born Elinore Pruitt in 1876 in Chickasaw Nation territory in modern day Oklahoma, her birth father died when she was very young and her mother and step-father both died when Stewart...
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The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, and remains his best-known work. It is a historical novel set in the French and Indian war in New York, and centers around the massacre of surrendered Anglo-American troops. The two daughters of the British commander are kidnapped, but rescued by the last two Mohicans. The title comes from a quote by Tamanend: "I have lived to see the last warrior
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Español
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Novela póstuma de Mark Twain publicada en 1916 por el albacea literario del autor, Albert B. Paine, El forastero misterioso se sitúa en la vena satírica de su autor, y por lo tanto moral. La llegada durante la Edad Media a una población austriaca, dominada por el odio entre sus dos sacerdotes, de un extraño ángel que se hace llamar Satán, provoca el revuelo entre el vecindario. Y no sólo por su repertorio milagrero, sino por su énfasis en...
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English
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King Arthur's stories are timeless tales that have been told countless times since the fifteenth century when Sir Thomas Malory introduced them in Le Morte d'Arthur. The basis for the upcoming film, this collection is retold by famed American poet and author Sidney Lanier. He imbues the legendary stories with action and adventure, accompanied by N. C. Wyeth's breathtaking illustrations.
Readers will enjoy the daring exploits of Arthur and his knights....
12) The black arrow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A young Englishman, seeking to avenge the death of his father, becomes involved in the band of the Black Arrow and the events of the War of the Roses.
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English
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The famous adventure novel, Treasure Island, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in a new beautiful Pook Press edition, with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth
A swashbuckling tale of pirates, maps and treasure. The story begins with an old sailor who appears an inn on the west English coast, talking of a sea chest and secret treasure map. When the sailor dies, his charge is left with Jim, the innkeeper's son, who discovers the chest and map. In no time,...
14) Kidnapped
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English
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The adventures of a sixteen-year-old orphan who was kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escaped and became involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
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English
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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of James Fenimore Cooper's renowned western classics, sea tales and historical novels. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans The Pathfinder The Pioneers The Prairie The Littlepage Manuscripts: Satanstoe The Chainbearer The Redskins...