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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, after discovering that vampires really do exist and plot to end the human race, friends George, Liz, and Eddie join Sir William Protheroe in an increasingly desperate effort to find ways to stop them from overthrowing Parliament and, eventually, taking over the world.
Author
Publisher
The New York Review Children's Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On the border of Scotland and England beginning in the early 1880s, two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep--a battle which must end in death.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
"Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate about the very nature - and ownership - of childhood. In the engagingly written Ventures into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up,"...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capsone imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this graphic retelling, scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll develops a potion to separate his good and dark natures--but soon his evil mind takes over and becomes the murderous fiend, Mr. Hyde.