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A truthful and absorbing narrative of life in Connecticut in 1830. Phebe Fairchild travels alone by stagecoach from her home in New Haven to spend a year with her country cousins, while her sea-captain father has taken her mother on a long voyage. Through the many adventures of that year and her struggles to keep her greatest treasure—a beloved book—she learns to understand her father’s parting advice, “You’ll need patience and courage a-plenty, but do as you’re told and never be afraid.” Lois Lenski devoted many months of enthusiastic research to making her story rich and accurate in background. She brings to life for young people as well as older readers a fascinating period of New England life. The book is noteworthy as to format, being designed by the artist, and generously illustrated in a manner suggestive of the period. A Newbery Honor book.Sku: 9781948959193
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book
By: Lois Lenski$24.50 -
Written by Carlo Collodi in 1883, Pinocchio is an adventure-filled fairy tale with an important moral. Will Pinocchio ever learn to do what is right and become a real boy? Collodi’s timeless story teaches valuable lessons of goodness, hard work, and diligence.Sku: 9781547705504
Pinocchio
By: Carlo Collodi$17.95 -
When orphaned Pollyanna Whittier comes to live with her stern maiden aunt, the entire town of Beldingsville is affected by the bubbly nature of this lively eleven-year-old. Not only is she perpetually cheerful, she also brightens the lives of everyone she meets. How does Pollyanna manage to be so eternally optimistic? How does she spread her bright outlook among the sick, sad, and abrasive people of the town and transform the life of her lonely aunt? It's the "glad game," she says, describing the antidote to hardship and depressed spirits. But in a serious accident, the town almost loses its "Glad Girl," and everyone looks for a way to make this youngster happy again. Translated into several languages since its original publication in 1913, Pollyanna has been made into a Broadway play, as well as a popular motion picture. One of the best-loved children's stories of all time, this classic—along with its spirited heroine—will inspire readers for years to come.Reprint of a standard edition.Sku: 9780486432069
Pollyanna
By: Porter, Eleanor H.$10.75 -
For most children being an orphan sent to live with your cold, stern, spinster aunt might be enough to dull their spirits. But not for 11-year-old Pollyanna Whittier. Thanks to “The Glad Game”, an optimistic and positive attitude she learned from her father, Pollyanna begins to transform the town of Beldingsville, Vermont, into one of the most pleasant places to live in all the world. But when further tragedy strikes will Pollyanna’s light begin to dull, or will she find a way to be glad no matter the circumstances?2 Grades
Pollyanna
By: Eleanor H. Porter$16.50 – $30.95 -
Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential.Sku: 9780140446081
Praise of Folly and Letter to Maarten van Dorp
By: Desiderius Erasmus$23.00 -
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775–1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now regarded as one of the principal treasures of English language. In a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George III's England, a country squire of no great means must marry off his five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are his headstrong second daughter Elizabeth Bennet and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy — two lovers whose pride must be humbled and prejudices dissolved before the novel can come to its splendid conclusion.Sku: 9780486284736
Pride and Prejudice
By: Austen, Jane$6.99 -
Austen’s witty and incisive story of the Bennet family’s relational follies in Regency England is a master class in the complexities of human nature, the dangers of blind pride and unchecked prejudice, and the ways in which we grow – in humility and in character, and in how we relate to one another.Sku: 9781586172633
Pride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen$13.95 -
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Sku: 9780141040349
Pride and Prejudice
By: Austen, Jane$34.00 -
SaleRabbitkind faces extinction, and Prince Lander must follow his aging father to the last desperate edge of hope. A possible future is glimpsed dimly through a veil of darkness and death. This will not be a safe ending. This is the third book in the prequel series The Tales of Old Natalia.
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Discounts are available on bulk orders, please send us an email.Retailers, please contact us for distributor information.Sku: 9781951305208Prince Lander and the Dragon War
By: S. D. Smith$17.95Original price was: $17.95.$10.77Current price is: $10.77.By: S. D. Smith$17.95Original price was: $17.95.$10.77Current price is: $10.77. Add to cart Quick View -
In Nero’s decadent Rome, a forbidden love challenges faith and fate.2 Grades
Quo Vadis
By: Henryk Sienkiewicz$26.50 – $41.50 -
In Lawson's classic tale, new folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers. Illustrated.Sku: 9780142407967
Rabbit Hill
By: Robert Lawson$10.99 -
Anne and Gilbert have now been married for fifteen years and are busily raising their six rambunctious children in the village of Glen St. Mary. But when a new minister, John Meredith, comes to town with his own four youngsters in tow, things get very boisterous indeed!Sku: 9781770497436
Rainbow Valley
By: L. M. Montgomery$9.99 -
If the Randall family's life at Sunnybrook Farm seemed to be constant pandemonium, you could be sure that Rebecca Randall and her six brothers and sisters were usually to blame. When her two unmarried aunts, Miranda and Jane, kindly agree to take their poor relation off her mother’s tired hands, Rebecca finds her new life stifling. But not for long. With a talent for mischief and a zest for living, the lively youngster manages to confound her aunts, who are determined to turn the irrepressible and opinionated little girl into a proper young lady. Their efforts are rewarded, but not before Rebecca nearly turns the quiet little town of Riverboro topsy-turvy. Delightful reading for pre-teens, this engaging story is also sure to bring back pleasant memories to Rebecca's older fans.Sku: 9780486428451
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
By: Wiggen, Kate Douglas$8.00 -
A poetic novel of despair, hope, and the redemptive power of work deepens an award-winning author’s grand Port Williams literary project. After losing his hand in an accident, Andy Catlett confronts an agronomist whose surreal vision can see only industrial farming. This vision is powerfully contrasted with that of modest Amish farmers content to live outside the pressures brought by capitalist postindustrial progress, and by working the land to keep away the three great evils of boredom, vice, and need. As Andy’s perspective filters through his anger over his loss and the harsh city of San Francisco surrounding him, he begins to remember: the people and places that wait 2,000 miles away in his Kentucky home, the comfort he knew as a farmer, and his symbiotic relationship to the soil. Andy laments the modern shift away from the love of the land, even as he begins to accept his own changed relationship to the world. Wendell Berry’s continued fascination with the power of memory continues in this treasured novel set in 1976.Sku: 9781582434155
Remembering
By: Wendell Berry$21.95 -
In Richard III, Shakespeare invites us on a moral holiday. The play draws us to identify with Richard and his fantasy of total control of self and domination of others.Sku: 9781476786926
Richard III
By: William Shakespeare, Edited by Edited by Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine$12.99By: William Shakespeare, Edited by Edited by Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine$12.99 Add to cart Quick View -
It's 1914 and the world is on the brink of war. But at almost fifteen, Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter, Rilla, dreams only of her first dance and getting her first kiss from the dashing Kenneth Ford.Sku: 9781770497450
Rilla of Ingleside
By: L. M. Montgomery$13.99