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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.

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.

Virginia has outgrown her winter coat and hopes that one of the packages of donated clothing that arrive on the Sioux reservation at Christmas from congregations in New England will contain a coat in her size.

Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself caught between the two worlds of his parents as he pursues his dream of owning land in the aftermath of the Civil War.

A collection of three Western stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.

Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.

Identical twins Ronde and Tiki Barber's excitement over the approaching state championship football game turns to worry when there is a chicken pox outbreak at Hidden Valley Junior High.

At Harlem's Langston Hughes Middle School, eleven-year-old Elijah "Jumper" Breeze and his friends compete against Nia and her girlfriends on the basketball court, in a video dance tournament, and for a student council seat, and, meanwhile, several of the students face issues with their fathers.

Contents: Every little hurricane -- A drug called tradition -- Because my father always said he was the only Indian who saw Jimi Hendrix play "The star-spangled banner" at Woodstock -- Crazy Horse dreams -- The only traffic signal on the Reservation doesn't flash red anymore -- Amusements -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona -- The fun house -- All I wanted to do was dance -- The trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire -- Distances -- Jesus Christ's half-brother is alive and well on the Spokane Indian Reservation -- A train is an order of occurance designed to lead to some result -- A good story -- The first annual all-Indian horseshoe pitch and barbecue -- Imagining the Reservation -- The approximate size of my favorite tumor -- Indian education -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven -- Family portrait -- Somebody kept saying powwow -- Witnesses, secret and not -- Flight --Junior Polatkin's Wild West Show.

Villette was Charlotte Bronte's name for Brussels, Belgium. Charlotte, and her sister, Emily, had studied there in 1842, and Charlotte returned in 1843 to teach there for a year.

A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.

A graphic novel account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, based on the experiences of the author who was six-years-old at the time of the attack.

Mientras el padre de la familia esta combatiendo en la guerra, la senora March y sus cuatro hijas intentan salir adelante a pesar de las dificultades economicas.

An eager, wide-eyed young man faces a famous director, wrestles with a mythical beast, and, with the help of the boys at Finn's Pub, comes to know the secrets of the Irish.

An autobiographical novel in which fifteen-year-old Jennifer Johnson convinces her parents to commit her to the Eating Disorders Unit of an upstate New York psychiatric hospital in 1988, where the treatment for her bulimia and anorexia is not what she expects.