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The plays of Shakespeare can be difficult for younger audiences, however in this collection of retellings they can enjoy the story while still be exposed to some beautiful language. It’s a perfect introduction to the world of Romeo and Juliet, Shylock, Ophelia, Puck, and many other timeless characters.2 GradesSku: 9781925729610
Tales From Shakespeare
By: Charles & Mary Lamb$20.95 – $33.95 -
“The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare…” Thus begins the preface to Charles and Mary Lamb’s classic work, which seeks to prepare readers for the Bard of Avon’s plays.Sku: 9781547701872
Tales From Shakespeare
By: Charles and Mary Lamb$20.50 -
Set in 1820’s Indiana, The Bears of Blue River follows the adventures of a young boy who lives with his family in a cabin on the bank of the Big Blue River. Their life is very different from ours today.4 GradesSku: 9781925729283
The Bears of Blue River
By: Charles Major$13.50 – $27.95 -
Are there bears on Hemlock Mountain? One boy is about to find out in this classic tale.Sku: 9780689716041
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
By: Alice Dalgliesh$7.99 -
The first four books in the beloved Betsy-Tacy series, together in one volume, ready to delight a new generation of readers—and to bring a grownup generation of readers back to the engrossing stories of their youth. Following the childhoods of Betsy Ray and her friends in the late 1800s and early 1900s, this handsome anthology collects the original Betsy-Tacy as well as Betsy, Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown.Sku: 9780062095879
The Betsy-Tacy Treasury
By: Maud Hart Lovelace$24.99 -
When Jacob Armitage, a local verderer, hears that Parliamentary soldiers looking for King Charles I are planning to burn down the home of the Beverley orphans he saves the children and rears them as his own grandchildren in a small cottage in the woods. But can aristocratic children, used to being served, learn to survive as simple foresters?2 GradesSku: 9781925729825
The Children of the New Forest
By: Captain Marryat$17.95 – $33.95 -
The Newbery Honor-winning The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dagliesh dramatizes a young girl’s struggle in colonial America.Sku: 9780689715402
The Courage of Sarah Noble
By: Alice Dalgliesh$6.99 -
Young Nate Twitchell is surprised when one of the hens on his family farm lays a giant egg. After a painstaking wait, Nate is even more surprised when it hatches and out pops a baby triceratops that he names Uncle Beazley! But when Nate decides to keep the dino and raise it on his own, he has no idea what he’s getting himself into. As Uncle Beazley grows, Nate and his family realize they are not equipped to take care of a full-sized dinosaur, and so with the help of their scientist friend, Nate and Uncle Beazley set off for the NationalMuseum in Washington, D.C., on the hunt for the perfect home for a modern-day dinosaur—then the real trouble begins!Sku: 9780316119207
The Enormous Egg
By: Oliver Butterworth$11.99 -
Into the Four-Story Mistake, an odd-looking house with a confused architectural history, move the Melendy family - Mona, Rush, Randy, Oliver, Father, and Cuffy, the housekeeper. Though disappointed about leaving their old brownstone in New York City, and apprehensive about living the country life, the four Melendy kids soon settle into this unusual new home. Here, they become absorbed in the adventures of the country, adjusting themselves with all their accustomed resourcefulness and discovering the many hidden attractions that the Four-Story Mistake has to offer. The Four-Story Mistake is the second installment of Enright's Melendy Quartet, an engaging and warm series about the close-knit Melendy family and their surprising adventures.Sku: 9780312375997
The Four-Story Mistake
By: Elizabeth Enright$13.50 -
These three Greek legends were been retold by the incomparable Charles Kingsley for his own children, and now you can share them with yours.Sku: 9781922348166
The Heroes
By: Charles Kingsley$13.50 – $29.50 -
Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day.Sku: 9780152052607
The Hundred Dresses
By: Eleanor Estes$10.99 -
Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther.Sku: 9780141325293
The Jungle Book
By: Rudyard Kipling$12.50 -
Among the most popular children's books ever written, The Jungle Book (1894) comprises a series of stories about Mowgli, a boy raised in the jungle by a family of wolves after a tiger has attacked and driven off his parents. Threatened throughout much of his young life by the dreaded tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is protected by his adoptive family and learns the lore of the jungle from Baloo, a sleepy brown bear, and Bagheera, the black panther.Sku: 9780486410241
The Jungle Book
By: Rudyard Kipling$6.75 -
James Daugherty draws on the Pilgrims' own journals to give a fresh and moving account of their life and traditions, their quest for religious freedom, and the founding of one of our nation's most beloved holidays; Thanksgiving.Sku: 9780394846972
The Landing of the Pilgrims
By: James Daugherty$10.99 -
In 1842, newly orphaned Maria Merryweather, her governess, and dog arrive at her ancestral home in an enchanted village in England's West Country where the people's bliss is marred by a dark shadow.Sku: 9780142300275
The Little White Horse
By: Elizabeth Goudge$12.50 -
In 1756, New York State was still a British colony, and the French and the Indians were constant threats to Edward and his family. When his father was called away to watch for a raid from the north, only Edward was left to protect Mama and little Trudy.Sku: 9780698116801
The Matchlock Gun
By: Edmonds, Walter D.$12.50