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1) The legend of Sleepy Hollow

Author

Irving, Washington

Series

Graphic horror
Adapted Junior Classic
Graphic Revolve Common Core Editions
Classic Fiction

Language

English

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Book, Audio Book on CD, Audio Book on PlayAway, eAudiobook, eBook

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A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

2) The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author

Twain, Mark

Language

English

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Book, Audio Book on CD, Audio Book on PlayAway, eAudiobook, eBook

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This grand old childhood classic relates a small-town boy's pranks and escapades with humor and wisdom that appeal to readers of every age. In addition to his everyday stunts (searching for buried treasure, trying to impress the adored Becky Thatcher), Tom experiences a dramatic turn of events when he witnesses a murder, runs away, and returns to attend his own funeral and testify in court.

3) Black Beauty

Author

Sewell, Anna

Series

Adventures of Black Beauty
Classic collection)
Aladdin classics
Unabridged classics
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Language

English

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Book, Audio Book on Cassette, Audio Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"When Black Beauty was born one sweet spring day, he could not have imagined the life ahead of him. Following his mother's advice to do his work with a good will, he enjoys the adventures of country and city life, makes new friends, and suffers from the cruelty and greed of his human masters. Beauty faces each challenge with bravery and kindness -- and then a chance encounter with an old friend brings him the greatest joy of all. Anna Sewell's classic...

4) A Christmas carol

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

Classic literature with classical music
Dover large print classics
Scholastic classics
Whole story
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Language

English

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Book, Audio Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Educational Kit, Holiday Books, Large Print Book

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A complete, illustrated edition of Charles Dickens's tale in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

5) Around the world in 80 days

Author

Verne, Jules

Series

STEAM tales volume 2
AUK Classics
Timeless Classics
Extraordinary Voyages
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Language

English

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In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.

6) A journey to the center of the earth

Author

Verne, Jules

Series

Dover thrift editions
Graphic Horror
Classic collection)
Extraordinary Voyages
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Language

English

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Follows Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans as they venture deep into a volcanic crater in Iceland on a journey that leads them to the center of the earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.

7) Treasure Island

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Language

English

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Book, Audio Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print Book, Non-Circulating

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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. Includes illustrations and extended captions providing background information on history, geography, social customs, animals, architecture, literature, and science pertinent to the story.

8) Gulliver's travels

Author

Swift, Jonathan

Series

Oxford world's classics
Dover thrift editions
Great books of the Western World volume 36
The World's great classics
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Language

English

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Book Chat March 18: St. Patrick's Day

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Book, Audio Book on CD, eBook, Non-Circulating, Reference

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Originally written as a political satire and now read as an adventure story, the travels of Gulliver include adventures in a land where people were only inches tall, in a land of giants, on an island that floated in the air, and in a country ruled by horses.

9) Dracula

Author

Stoker, Bram

Series

Kid classics
Graphic Horror
Barnes and Noble classics
Dracula
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Language

English

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Especially Spooky

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Book, Audio Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Educational Kit, Kindle, Large Print Book

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During a business visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Count's transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth. Harker returns home upon his escape from Dracula's grim fortress, but a friend's strange malady —...

10) Robinson Crusoe

Author

Defoe, Daniel

Series

Arcturus Children's Classics
Scribner storybook classic
Barnes and Noble Classics
Classic literature
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Language

English

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Book Chat June 17: Desert (and Dessert?)

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One of the most widely published novels in history, Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a young Englishman shipwrecked in a storm and forced to fend for himself on a remote island, alone...or so he thinks.

11) Hound of the Baskervilles

Author

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Series

Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 5
Graphic Revolve Common Core Editions
Classic Fiction

Language

English

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner John Watson investigate a murder that appears to have been committed by a ghost. Centuries ago, Hugo Baskerville was killed by a vicious hell-hound, and now Sir Henry Baskerville has been found dead, seemingly killed by the same legendary hound. Can Holmes and Watson stop the next Baskerville heir from suffering the same fate? The Hound of the Baskervilles was the most successful of Sir Arthur Conan...

12) The war of the worlds

Author

Wells, H. G

Series

Dover thrift editions
Smart Pop
Timeless Classics
Scholastic classics
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Language

English

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H.G. Wells' late nineteenth-century novel in which an intellectually superior race from Mars invades Earth with plans to take over the planet.

13) The time machine

Author

Wells, H. G

Series

Enriched classics
SF masterworks
Adapted Junior Classic
Graphic Classics
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Language

English

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This science fiction classic, one of the earliest works of the genre, remains fresh and exciting. The Time Traveler steps into his machine to embark upon an astonishing journey beyond the frontiers of time, space, and the human imagination. The movie stars Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons as the man who falls in love with a woman far in the future.

14) 20,000 leagues under the sea

Author

Verne, Jules

Series

Timeless Classics
Scholastic classics
Extraordinary Voyages
Recorded Books classics library
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Language

English

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Book Chat October 12: Octopus & Squid
Oceans of Possibilities

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In the mid-nineteenth century, a French professor and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.

15) The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Series

Dover thrift editions
Sterling classics
Unabridged classics
Collins classics
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Language

English

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Dr. Jekyll, a genteel, respectable London physician is transformed into Mr. Hyde, a foul-tempered, uncouth degenerate.

16) Alice in Wonderland

Author

Carroll, Lewis

Series

Alice in Wonderland
Graphic Revolve Common Core Editions
Classic Fiction

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

17) Frankenstein

Author

Shelley, Mary

Series

Graphic horror
Baby's Classics
Classic Library
Ghostwriter
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Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821. Shelley travelled through Europe in 1815, moving along the river Rhine in Germany,...

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1) The legend of Sleepy Hollow

2) The adventures of Tom Sawyer

3) Black Beauty

4) A Christmas carol

5) Around the world in 80 days

6) A journey to the center of the earth

7) Treasure Island

8) Gulliver's travels

9) Dracula

10) Robinson Crusoe

11) Hound of the Baskervilles

12) The war of the worlds

13) The time machine

14) 20,000 leagues under the sea

15) The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

16) Alice in Wonderland

17) Frankenstein

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