A Christmas Carol
The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 316
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: christmas, ghosts, ghost stories, england [X], misers, scrooge, ebenezer (fictitious character), cartoons and comics, poverty fiction, ghosts fiction, misers fiction, christmas fiction, great britain [X], england fiction, christmas stories, poor families, sick children, london (england), scrooge, ebenezer (fictional character), didactic fiction, animated films, closed caption video recordings, dvds, poor, family life, sick, christmas stories, ghost stories, audiobooks, scrooge, ebenezer, fiction, juvenile works, holidays, film novelizations, audiobooks, compact discs, jewish holidays, fasts and feasts, christmas fiction
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 [X], people with disabilities, great britain [X], 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
David Copperfield
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: recitations, young men, england [X], character studies fiction, london fiction, great britain fiction, children, orphans, child labor, boys, stepfathers, dickens, charles, cartoons and comics, great britain [X], autobiographical fiction, bildungsromans, men, london (england), aunts, historical fiction, bildungsromane, autobiographical fiction, bildungsromans, electronic books
The Prince And The Pauper
Young Tom is a pauper, doomed to wander the streets begging for crusts.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 510
subjects: edward, princes, poor, lookalikes, adventure and adventurers fiction, england fiction, false personation, england [X], impostors and imposture, boys, london (england), fiction, mistaken identity, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, adapted, princes and princesses, great britain [X], historical fiction, edward vi, king of england, twain, mark, 1835-1910, poor children, adventure stories, edward vi, king of england, social classes, kings, queens, rulers, etc, historical fiction
The Return Of The Native
The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native," home from Paris and discontented with his work there.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1040
subjects: pastoral fiction, didactic fiction, england [X], wessex (england), hardy, thomas, fiction, domestic relations, romance, great britain [X], heathlands, mate selection, adultery, mother-son relationship, mothers and sons, native americans, married people, country life, people with visual disabilities, marriage
Far From The Madding Crowd
Set in fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, first published anonymously in 1874.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1110
subjects: women farmers, triangles (interpersonal relations), farm life, wessex (england), england [X], man-woman relationships, man-woman relationship, great britain [X], pastoral fiction, love stories, dorset (england), didactic fiction, love stories
Great Expectations
Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: young men, england [X], dickens, charles, orphans, coming of age, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, benefactors, youth, bildungsromans, great britain [X], man-woman relationships, revenge, historical fiction, closed caption video recordings, closed captioning, dvds, audiobooks, working class, inheritance and succession, literature - adapted, gifts, bildungsromane, audiobooks, bildungsromans, adaptations, graphic novels, love stories, love, cartoons and comics, conduct of life, industrial revolution, social classes, electronic books
Pride And Prejudice
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters; and includes a short essay comparing Austen's Elizabeth and Mr.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 124
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1090
subjects: young women, courtship, love stories, england [X], social classes, sisters, great britain [X], domestic fiction, prejudices, families, family, dating (social customs), gentry, love, upper class, books that were turned into a movie, large print books, family life, domestic fiction, love stories, bennet, elizabeth, darcy, fitzwilliam, romance fiction, romance fiction, bennet, elizabeth (fictitious character), darcy, fitzwilliam (fictitious character), bennet, elizabeth (fictional character), darcy, fitzwilliam (fictional character), electronic books, marriage, novels
Sense And Sensibility
A story of two sisters - Elinor, who has sense and Marianne who has sensibility.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 58
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1180
subjects: young women, sisters, love stories, england [X], great britain [X], inheritance and succession, social classes, man-woman relationships, man-woman relationship, austen, jane, fiction, english literature, mate selection, domestic fiction, audiobooks, gentry, dashwood, elinor, dashwood, marianne, courtship, domestic fiction, love stories, regency fiction, romance fiction, love, romance fiction
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 [X], great britain [X], 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
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte's only novel, published in 1847.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 110
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: man-woman relationships, man-woman relationship, england [X], yorkshire (england), love stories, love, triangles (interpersonal relations), rejection (psychology), rural families, foundlings, bronte, emily, interpersonal relations, orphans, farm family, heathcliff (fictitious character : bront?), love stories, domestic fiction, psychological fiction, revenge, heathcliff (fictional character), romance, gothic novels, psychological fiction, domestic fiction, heathcliff (fictitious character : bronte?), closed caption video recordings, video recordings for the hearing impaired, great britain [X], family life, romance fiction, electronic books, electronic books, heathcliff, country life, romance fiction
Northanger Abbey
The story of Catherine Morland, a well-to-do clergyman's daughter whose imagination runs away with her during a visit to the medieval home of the Tilney's, a family she met while vacationing at Bath.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1120
subjects: young women, books and reading, romantic suspense novels, england [X], gothic novels, english satire, bath (england), austen, jane, horror tales, gentry, marriage, english literature, upper class, satire, love stories, great britain [X], love, middle class, love stories, gothic fiction, satire
A Room With A View
A charming, young English woman is at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable and is forced to choose between convention and passion.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: british, young women, tourism, florence (italy), humorous fiction, english, social classes, great britain [X], england [X], love stories, class consciousness, love, romance fiction, love stories, humorous fiction, electronic books
Wuthering Heights
In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes tragedy for them and many others, even in the next generation.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 32
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: orphans, country life, yorkshire (england), great britain [X], man-woman relationships, man-woman relationship, love stories, england [X], classics, audiobooks, love, compact discs, large print books, bront?e, emily, closed caption video recordings, revenge, triangles (interpersonal relations), historical fiction, romance - fiction, foundlings, rural families, rejection (psychology), love stories, domestic fiction, psychological fiction
Silas Marner
Silas Marner is a grumpy weaver who is obsessed with making a lot of money.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1330
subjects: interpersonal relations, england [X], fathers and daughters, father-daughter relationship, domestic fiction, orphans, country life, weavers, pastoral fiction, adopted children, foundlings, great britain [X], men, books and reading, father-child relationship, domestic fiction