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North Country
Shane White
ComicsLit •
Sometimes, you have to escape your past to get to the truth. ComicsLit introduces another amazing talent with a deeply felt story about growing up in a northern New York State mill town. After years of being away and making a life for himself, Shane finally travels...
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc. •
This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc. •
This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book...
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England's greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as "Oliver Twist", "A Tale of Two Cities", and "Great Expectations", Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved critical and popular international success in his lifetime and was honored with burial in Westminster Abbey.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in the village of Florida, Missouri. He attended the ordinary western common school until he was twelve, the last of his formal schooling. In a span of fifteen years he was successively a typesetter, a steamboat pilot, a soldier for three weeks, a silver miner, a newspaper reporter, and a bohemian in San Francisco known as "Mark Twain." But in 1865, deeply in debt, he acknowledged a talent for "literature, of a low order, i.e., humorous." In the next forty years, he published more than a dozen books and hundreds of shorter works, includi
