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Introducing Lesson Plans
Now Featuring Anne Of Green Gables!
With these uncertain times, we are introducing Lesson Plans that include educational tools to help you learn while you’re at home. Each lesson plan will consist of critical thinking questions, chapter recap quizzes, puzzles and more. Our goal is to help you continue to learn during these tough times.
Vocabulary Builder and Games
Listening Comprehension Questions
Creative Writing Prompts
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Peter Pan
By J M Barrie
Second to the right and straight on 'til morning — that's the way to Neverland, an island filled with adventure and hidden danger. The Darling children don't know anything about Neverland, until a magical boy named Peter Pan shows up and leads the way.
Anne of Green Gables
By Lucy Maud Montgomery
In one of the most beloved classics of all time, Anne brings, mischief, adventure and love to the countryside of Green Gables.
A Little Princess
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Rich. Poor. Magical. When Sara Crewe comes to stay at Miss Minchin's School for Girls, she is treated like a little princess. Then Sara gets some dreadful news about her father. Left with no money and no place to go, Sara Crewe retains her spirit but will it be enough?
Secret Garden
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
After the sudden death of her parents in India, Mary Lennox is sent “home” to England, to live at the Yorkshire estate of a distant relative. Sad and lonely, her only interest lies in a secret garden, abandoned after a tragic accident.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
By Jules Verne
A team of explorers makes an expedition into a crater in Iceland which leads to the center of the earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.
The Adventures of Pinocchio
By Carlo Collodi
Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
Black Beauty
By Anna Sewell
An illustrated adaptation for younger readers of the classic work in which a horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
By Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her two stern aunts in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine.
Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens
One of the finest novels by iconic British author Charles Dickens, this Victorian tale follows the good-natured orphan Pip as he makes his way through life.
The Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum
The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone.
Alice in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll
In the most renowned novel by English author Lewis Carroll, restless young Alice literally stumbles into adventure when she follows the hurried, time-obsessed White Rabbit down a hole and into a fantastical realm.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of five short stories featuring fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892.
Oliver Twist
By Charles Dickens
The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin.
Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre is the story of a young, orphaned girl (shockingly, she's named Jane Eyre) who lives with her aunt and cousins, the Reeds, at Gateshead Hall. Like all nineteenth-century orphans, her situation pretty much sucks. Mrs. Reed hates Jane and allows her son John to torment the girl.
Treasure Island
By Robert Louis Stevenson
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
By Roger Lancelyn Green
After the Grail is found, the last battle of the Knights of the Round Table is fought. In this battle many knights die, and with them King Arthur, Sir Gawain, who is Arthur's nephew, and Mordred, the wicked son of King Arthur, and his half-sister Morgan le Fay.
The Time Machine
By H. G. Wells
This innovative debut novel by British author H.G. Wells follows an unnamed scientist as he uses a time machine to travel from turn-of-the-century England into the far future.
Coming Soon…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
By Washington Irving
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” tells the story of Ichabod Crane and his hapless attempt to win the heart and hand of Katrina Van Tassel in the context of a comical ghost story. Ichabod comes to Sleepy Hollow, New York, from his home state of Connecticut, to be the schoolmaster of the village.
Coming soon…
The Adventures of Robin Hood
By Howard Pyle
Robin Hood lived in England during the time of King Henry the Second and was a famous outlaw who lived in Sherwood Forest near the town of Nottingham with his band of merry men.
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Heidi
By Johanna Spyri
It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children"
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