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Author
Earliest Publication Date
1994
Book
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Summary
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1994
Book
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Summary
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
3) Black Beauty
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1890
Book
On Shelf
Audiobook CD
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Playaway
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eAudiobook
Available Online
eBook
Available Online
Kindle
Available Online
Summary
One of the best loved animal stories ever written, the dramatic and heartwarming Black Beauty is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. No one can ever forget the gallant Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead and a heart of unyielding courage.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1996
Book
Not Owned
Summary
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1995
Book
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Summary
Trying to forget his past and live an honest life, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1995
Book
Not Owned
Summary
Trying to forget his past and live an honest life, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris.
7) Oliver Twist
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1994
Book
Not Owned
Summary
A simplified retelling of the adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
8) Pinocchio
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1968
Book
Not Owned
Audiobook CD
On Shelf
Playaway
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Summary
The adventures of the puppet boy created by an old Italian woodcarver from a piece of wood that talked. Includes vocabulary notes in the margin, a brief biography of the author, and instructions for making a hand puppet.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1995
Book
Not Owned
Summary
A 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.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1993
Book
Not Owned
Summary
An abridged adaptation of the classic story of the ten-year-old orphan who goes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors, where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
