The Wind In The Willows
To help students experience the joys and benefits of reading, Townsend Press presents the Townsend Library - a collection of high-interest classics.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 114
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1140
subjects: animals, fantasy, friendship, toad of toad hall (fictitious character), toads, moles (animals), rats, badgers, country life, large type books, large print books, england, friends, england, toy and movable books, fantasy fiction, rivers, toad, nature stories, pastoral fiction, animal fiction, nature fiction
Little Women
An abridged version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up in 1800s New England; and contains over 400 vocabulary words and definitions, synonyms and pronunciation for each word, and discussion questions.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 204
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1300
subjects: sisters, family life, new england, historical fiction, family life- new england, new england- history- 19th century, march family (fictional characters), mother-daughter relationship, young women, march family (fictitious characters), mothers and daughters, family, compact discs, bildungsromans, girls, family - fiction, new england - fiction, united states, families, autobiographical fiction, domestic fiction, bildungsromans, domestic fiction, autobiographical fiction, march, jo, march, amy (fictitious character), march, beth (fictitious character), march, meg (fictitious character), cartoons and comics, manga, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, graphic novels, confederate states of america, electronic books
The Secret Garden
An illustrated edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic about a ten-year-old girl named Mary, orphaned by a cholera outbreak, who comes to live at a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers Colin, her invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a locked garden.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 173
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
subjects: gardens, physically handicapped, yorkshire (england), large type books, orphans, england, people with disabilities, great britain, loneliness, closed caption video recordings, orphans -, children, orphans-fiction, gardens-fiction, physically handicapped-fiction, yorkshire (england)-fiction, friendship, people with physical disabilities, children's stories, children with disabilities, children with physical disabilities, yorkshire, cousins, secrecy, secrets
Anne Of Green Gables
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 148
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: adoption, orphans, friendship, country life, prince edward island, orphans fiction, shirley, anne (fictional character), girls, canada, farm life, shirley, anne (fictitious character), coming of age, islands, large type books, montgomery, l. m, islands, historical fiction, shirley, anne, bildungsromans, bildungsromans, prince edward island, country life, friendship, orphans
Black Beauty
They tried their best to break his powerful body. But they could never break his magnificent spirit! Anna Sewell's timeless tale of the powerful, yet gentle Black Beauty has become the best-loved horse story of all time.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 160
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1010
subjects: animal cruelty, horses, great britain, horse racing, black beauty (fictitious character), black beauty (fictional character), england, animals, horses fiction. sears, great britain fiction. sears, animal welfare, horses, reading counts!, graphic novels, compact discs
The Call Of The Wild
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike goldfields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 367
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: dogs, klondike river valley (yukon), comic books, strips, etc, reading materials, animals, yukon territory, sled dogs, wolves, alaska, yukon territory, dogs fiction, yukon, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, pets, adventure stories, feral dogs, pet theft, adventure stories, american, animal welfare, theft, action and adventure fiction, audiobooks, human-animal relationships, human-animal relationship, canada, gold mines and mining, animal fiction, london, jack, cartoons and comics, cartoons and cartooning, adventure fiction, mines and mineral resources, electronic books
The Hound Of The Baskervilles
We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 50
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1090
subjects: holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), private investigators, supernatural, holmes, sherlock (fictional character), devon (england), mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories, watson, john h. (fictitious character), england, dogs, dartmoor (england), blessing and cursing, young adult fiction, paranormal fiction, electronic books, detectives, detective and mystery stories, holmes, sherlock, mystery fiction
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Designed to acquaint readers with famous stories, this book, in graphic novel format, retells Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 263
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: mississippi river, missouri, finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), boys, clemens, samuel langhorne, finn, huckleberry (fictional character), voyages and travels, missouri fiction, missouri fiction, mississippi river fiction, humorous fiction, humorous stories, runaway children, male friendship, fugitive slaves, race relations, large type books, huckleberry finn (fictional character), friendship, slaves, cartoons and comics, mississippi river valley, slavery, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, united states, audiobooks, voyages and travel, large print books, finn, huckleberry, action and adventure fiction, humorous fiction, bildungsromans, adventure stories, humorous stories, bildungsromans, adventure fiction, finn, huckleberry (fictional character), adventure stories, historical fiction, picaresque literature, compact discs, tourism, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, electronic books, graphic novels, electronic books
The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz
A Kansas girl named Dorothy is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz, where she and three new friends must find a wizard to grant their wishes, including Dorothy's wish to go home.
398.2
year: 2022
copies: 68
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 1030
subjects: large type books, oz (imaginary place), fantasy, wizard of oz (fictitious character), gale, dorothy (fictitious character), scarecrow (fictitious character : baum), cowardly lion (fictitious character), fantasy fiction, wizards, gale, dorothy (fictional character), wizard of oz (fictional character), kansas, large print books, scarecrow (fictional character : baum), baum, l. frank, friendship, fantastic, wizard, gale, dorothy, fantasy fiction, cyclones, scarecrow, cowardly lion, tin woodman, witches
The Jungle Book
An epic adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub who's been raised by a family of wolves.
398
year: 2016
copies: 64
call number/section: 398
lexile: 1080
subjects: mowgli (fictitious character), jungles, animals, mowgli (fictional character), india, large type books, children's stories, english, short stories, jungle animals, feral children, boys, wild children, kipling, rudyard, mowgli, orphans, action and adventure films, film adaptations, film remakes, feature films, fiction films, video recordings for the hearing impaired, video recordings for people with visual disabilities, french language materials, spanish language materials, drama, large print books, action and adventure fiction, short stories, mongooses
Oliver Twist
After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 71
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: orphans, criminals, london (england), bildungsromans, england fiction, dickens, charles, cartoons and comics, comic books, strips, etc, poor children, kidnapping victims, delitos, hu?rfanos, spanish language materials, londres (inglaterra), readers, english language, england, great britain, robbers and outlaws, identity (psychology), boys, old english novel, robbers and outlaws-fiction, orphans-fiction, england-fiction, cartoons and caricatures, thieves, social conditions, london, england, poverty, detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, london
A Study In Scarlet
Presents the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they solve a baffling murder in "A Study in Scarlet.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: short stories, mystery fiction, detectives, watson, john h. (fictional character), holmes, sherlock (fictional character)