Black Beauty was formerly listed in the Guinness World Records as the smallest living horse, a record she held from 2001 to 2006, until the record was taken by Thumbelina.When Black Beauty was born on June 6, 1996, her owners, Donald and Janet Burleson, knew she was smaller than any miniature horse. She was only 12 inches (30Êcm) in height and less than 10Êlb (4.5Êkg) in weight. To qualify for Guinness World Records as the Worlds Smallest Horse; Black Beauty had to be taken to a veterinarian to be measured with careful precision. At the age of five years, she was 18.5 inches (47Êcm) tall at her withers, but is now only 17 inches (43Êcm) tall. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Beauty_(horse) Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book.

Black Beauty

Literature & Fiction

Anna Sewell()

Classics

Classics Publishing

Project X Origins Graphic Texts can help children to reach higher standards in comprehension. This graphic retelling of The Call of the Wild brings a fresh look to a well-loved classic. This tale follows the life of Buck, a domestic dog born into a comfortable life. However, when Buck is stolen and sent to Alaska, he must endure the harsh life of a working sled dog. In the battle for survival, will Buck make it through? And will he answer the call? This book also contains notes on the inside front and back covers with advice on supporting older children with their reading, ideas for follow-up activities and higher-level comprehension questions.

Project X Origins Graphic Texts: Dark Red+ Book Band, Oxford Level 19: The Call of the Wild

Education & Teaching

LONDON, JACK.

Schools & Teaching

Project X Origins Graphic Texts can help children to reach higher standards in comprehension. This graphic retelling of Oliver Twist brings a fresh look to a well-loved classic. Victorian England is not a kind place for a poor orphan like Oliver. After running away from an undertaker's where he's been forced to work, he hopes he'll have better luck in London. However, after he meets the Artful Dodger, he soon learns life in the big city can be very dangerous indeed. Can Oliver ever escape the murky world he finds himself in? This book also contains notes on the inside front and back covers with advice on supporting older children with their reading, ideas for follow-up activities and higher-level comprehension questions.

Project X Origins Graphic Texts: Dark Red+ Book Band, Oxford Level 20: Oliver Twist

Charles, Dickens

A young citizen of Oz learns an important magic word and falls prey to the wickedness of the Nomes' ex-king who wants to destroy Dorothy, the Wizard, and Princess Ozma.

The magic of Oz;: A faithful record of the remarkable adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry ... birthday present for Princess Ozma of Oz

L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Action & Adventure

In this essay, Mill argues for representative government, the ideal form of government in his opinion. One of the more notable ideas Mill puts forth in the book is that the business of government representatives is not to make legislation. Instead Mill suggests that representative bodies such as parliaments and senates are best suited to be places of public debate on the various opinions held by the population and to act as watchdogs of the professionals who create and administer laws and policy. In his words: “Their part is to indicate wants, to be an organ for popular demands, and a place of adverse discussion for all opinions relating to public matters, both great and small; and, along with this, to check by criticism, and eventually by withdrawing their support, those high public officers who really conduct the public business, or who appoint those by whom it is conducted.”

Considerations on Representative Government

Politics & Social Sciences

john-stuart-mill

Philosophy

Arms and the Man

Bernard, Shaw

Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849ÊÐ 29 October 1924) was an English-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885Ð1886), A LittleÊPrincess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, England. After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 immigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. There Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870 her mother died, and in 1872 Frances married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett

A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time.

frances-hodgson-burnett

Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 Ð 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were Rev Edward Bird BA (1794-1858) and his second wife, Dora Lawson (1803-1866). Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in 1830, and it was here he met Dora.Bird moved several times during her childhood. In 1832, Reverend Bird was appointed curate in Maidenhead, where Isabella's brother Edward was born and died in his first year. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Bird

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains:

Travel

Isabella Lucy Bird

Travel Writing

An incisive inquiry into matters of fate and fallibility, Alexander's Bridge (1912) raises questions that trouble us still. Willa Cather examines questions of autonomy and responsibility as she explores the arc and descent of Bartley Alexander, a successful bridge builder who has surmounted humble beginnings

Alexander's Bridge (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Willa, Cather

Edgar Huntly

Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker is a 1799 novel by the American author Charles Brockden Brown.Edgar Huntly, a young man who lives with his uncle and sisters (his only remaining family) on a farm outside Philadelphia, is determined to learn who murdered his friend Waldegrave. Walking near the elm tree under which Waldegrave was killed late one night, Huntly sees Clithero, a servant from a neighboring farm, half-dressed, digging in the ground and weeping loudly. Huntly concludes that Clithero may be the murderer. He also concludes that Clithero is sleepwalking. Huntly decides to follow Clithero when he sleep walks. Clithero leads Huntly through rough countryside, but all this following doesn't lead to Huntly learning much about the murder. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Huntly Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book.

Charles Brockden Brown

Literary

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