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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.
8) The waves
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Against the background of the sea, the author presents a group of characters from childhood to old age who speak in sililoquy, and we see them as they appear to themselves and to each other. In the end one of the characters sums up the effect of their lives as a whole.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
Description
"Collection of short stories by Eudora Welty, published in 1949. The stories had all been published previously, and Welty added one novella-length story, "Main Families in Morgana." Symbolism from Greek mythology unifies the stories, all of which are set in the Mississippi Delta town of Morgana over a 40-year period. The hero of "Moon Lake" and the guitarist in "Music from Spain" are Perseus figures. King MacLain, the protagonist of "Shower of Gold,"...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2001?], ©1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Description
En esta fabula encantadora relata el autor su encuentro con un hombrecito extraordinario, habitante de un planeta apenas más grande que una casa. Poco a poco aprende el lector la historia extraña de este pequeño ser --el principito -- y como llega a la Tierra después de una larga serie de viajes que lo lleva a conocer siete distintos planetas. Ahí, gracias a un zorro, descubre por fin el secreto de lo que es más importante en la vida.
An aviator...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004, ©1994
Language
English
Description
When Julia is cleaning a 15th century Flemish painting, in a corner she finds the words: "Who killed the knight?" As she investigates the mystery, she becomes mixed up with several late 20th century unscrupulous characters.
12) The sea runners
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The story of four indentured servants in Czarist Russia in 1853 who escape and travel to freedom by canoe. In 1853, four Scandinavian indentured laborers in Russian Alaska steal a canoe and begin to paddle south toward the mouth of the Columbia River, twelve hundred miles away.
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB47
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
Includes material on John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Jay Cooke, Daniel Drew, Henry C. Frick, James J. Hill, Charles M. Schwab, Henry Villard, Standard Oil Company, trusts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems; later inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1983], ©1973
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space that became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical hardship.
16) Openings: poems
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1980, ©1968.
Language
English
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