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Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

Rosalind, daughter of the deposed Duke Senior, is exiled from the court by her wicked uncle.

Yotsuba strives to master the game of rock-paper-scissors, becomes one with the water during a fishing weekend, and tries to get money from strangers to buy groceries.

King Leontes, in a fit of jealousy, accuses his wife of having an affair with his friend Polixenes and banishes her newborn daughter, who grows up and falls in love with Polixene's son, and returns to King Leontes to set everything right.

A cursed pirate girl faces mythical creatures, gnarled pirates, and ghostly apparitions as she tries to find her lost father, a pirate captain on the Omerta Seas.

Eighth-grader Somali American Nimo Mohamed is the youngest runner on the varsity cross-country team, but she is determined to keep up with the older girls, so she has set herself a grueling training schedule; too grueling because her body is exhausted, her grades at school are slipping, and her father, who is still very much in her life despite the divorce, is starting the pressure her to quit the team.

"Lori Block is dedicated to her fourth-grade basketball team, despite being relegated to an extra period before the real game starts, known as the fifth quarter, where the not-so-good kids play and the points don't count.

"A mysterious jukebox, old vinyl records, and cryptic notes on music history, are Shaheen's only clues to her father's abrupt disappearance.