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1) The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Twain, Mark

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Testing for Tom Sawyer bug

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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...

2) Treasure Island

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

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"Young Jim Hawkins and his friends set sail for Treasure Island, hoping to find the buried loot of Captin Flint, fiercest of all the pirates. But, unknown to them, the crew of their own ship is made up of Flint's former crew, led by the evil one-legged pirate Long John Silver. Once on the island Jim and his friends must find the buried treasure and escape before the pirates capture them. Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of greed and gold remains...

3) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark

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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...

4) The hobbit, or, there and back again

Author

Tolkien, J.R.R

Series

Lord of the rings
Hobbit
Middle-Earth Universe

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Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Local Library Checkout Only, Playaway

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Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his...

5) The Count of Monte Cristo

Author

Dumas, Alexandre

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Timeless Classics
Signet classic
Barnes and Noble Classics
A Bantam classic
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A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible...

6) Gulliver's Travels

Author

Swift, Jonathan

Series

Oxford world's classics
100 greatest books of all time
Everyman's library volume 26
Barnes and Noble classics
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The wayward traveler -- Lemuel Gulliver -- ends up on a series of bizarrely populated islands. First he is a giant among little people, but then sees the situation reversed when he's surrounded by giants twelve times his size. Next he finds himself in the clouds, in a society of devoted but ultimately hapless mathematicians. Lastly, his journey brings him to an island where incredibly noble horses must deal with a race of uncouth, reviled ape-men:...

7) Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets

Author

Rowling, J.K

Series

Harry Potter (MinaLima edition) volume 2
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 2

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"For Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls' bathroom. But then real trouble begins--someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects ... Harry Potter himself?"--Page...

8) The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

Author

Lewis, C. S

Series

Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
Cascades
(Clive Staples),Narnia volume 2

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Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Realia - Game, Kit, etc.

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Four adventurous siblings-Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie-step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice.

9) Kidnapped

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Series

Mackin classics
Now age books
Dingles education leveled reading series. Aquamarine level
Timeless Classics
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Swindled out of his inheritance, recently orphaned David Balfour finds himself kidnapped and aboard a slave ship bound for the Carolinas shortly after the Jacobite rising of 1745. A shipwreck leads to a chance encounter and an unlikely rescuer--Highland rebel and suspected assassin Alan Breck Stewart. An incredible friendship blossoms between the two young men, who occupy opposite ends of the political and religious spectra. Together they return to...

10) Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

Author

Zevin, Gabrielle

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NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction

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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have...

11) Robinson, Crusoe

Author

Defoe, Daniel

Series

Arcturus Children's Classics
The Children's classics
Akasha classics
BBC children's classics
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"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...

12) Moby-Dick

Author

Melville, Herman

Series

Graphic classics (Magic Wagon)
Great classics for children
Usborne classics retold
Illustrated Classics
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"Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered by many readers to be the Great American Novel. But most don't know that since its appearance in 1851, it has been revised in substantial ways that alter its original meaning. Melville's masterpiece is described as a "fluid text": it exists in multiple versions, each revealing shifting intentions. The new Longman Critical Edition offers unprecedented access to the revisions that Melville made, the further...