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Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in the Bat Cave, the enjoyment just never ends.
6) Dracula
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"Count Dracula is a vampire. He drinks people's blood. He lives in a lonely castle in the mountains of Transylvania. But then he comes to England ... Professor van Helsing knows about vampires, but can he stop Dracula?"
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H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, H.G. Wells, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
9) Black Beauty
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When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky-his first home is a good one where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse.
10) Pinocchio
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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.
11) The jungle book
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The classic story of friendship between man and beast. Young Mowgli escapes the vicious jaws of the growling tiger Shere Khan, and is adopted by Father Wolf. As he grows up, Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle, and so his extraordinary adventures begin . . .
13) Drácula
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Desde 1897, año de la publicación de Drácula, el nombre de Bram Stoker ha quedado unido para siempre al mítico vampiro de Transilvania, sin duda uno de los más grandes arquetipos jamás logrados de toda la literatura fantástica. Con el paso de los años, y a pesar del ininterrumpido éxito de la novela, "la más hermosa de todos los tiempos", como la calificaba Oscar Wilde, así como de las innumerables adaptaciones teatrales y cinematográficas...
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Varios astrónomos descubren sobre la superficie de Marte una serie de extrañas explosiones. A los pocos días, varios objetos metálicos caen sobre Gran Bretaña y de su interior comienzan a salir horribles criaturas. En pocos días, la humanidad se verá enfrentada a un enemigo armado con poderosas armas y cuyo objetivo en deja lugar a dudas: acabar con la especie humana sobre la Tierra.
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