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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"During his regular days in London, Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; on weekends he retired to the house in the country that he shared with his fanciful wife, Elspeth, and their fragile son, Alistair, and took lengthy walks along the Thames in Berkshire, "tempted by the treasures of hedge and ditch; the rapt surprise of the first lords-and-ladies, the rustle of a field-mouse, the splash of a frog." The...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Relates the tragic story of the author of the beloved children's novel, who learned hypnosis to captivate and psychologically abuse a family with whom he had become obsessed, the very family that inspired the Darlings of "Peter Pan."
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
This biography tells the life of J.M. Barrie, the writer who never wanted to grow up, and so in 1903 created Peter Pan--the boy from Never Land who never grew up. Black and white photographs show events from his life.
Author
Series
Josephine Tey mystery volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011], 2010.
Language
English
Description
Tey is writing a novel based on Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the notorious "Finchley baby farmers," unaware that her research will entangle her in the desperate hunt for a modern-day killer.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
December 2018.
Language
English
Description
"Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and ... campaigning for justice in all. Stanford ... makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective"--Publisher marketing.