Charles Dickens is one of the world's greatest and best loved writers. To read Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, or Nicholas Nickleby is to be drawn into a society that still seems fresh and real today: nineteenth-century London with its extraordinary extremes of wealth, progress, poverty, and despair. Dickens captures it all in plots that are by turns wildly comical, wonderfully melodramatic, and tragic to the point of tears. In his writing and later, in his dramatic readings, Charles Dickens was a master showman, mesmerizing the whole world.His novels are stuffed to bursting with unforgettable characters like Mr. Micawber, Ebineezer Scrooge, and Little Nell. Most affecting are his portraits of children abused and abandoned by the Industrial Age. David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Tiny Tim are mirrors that reflect the twisted values of their time.The twists of Dickens's own life encompassed childhood suffering as well as international acclaim. When he was twelve, his father was consigned to debtors' prison and Charles to working in a blacking factory. Not twelve years later The Pickwick Papers would propel him toward literary stardom.In their lovingly researched, incisively written biography, illustrated with a lushness and attention to period detail of which Dickens would have approved, Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema illuminate his inspirations, his impact on nations of readers, and his gleaming genius that has only brightened with time.A handsome book on the beloved novelist. Dickens's troubled, well-documented life has plenty to interest children....Lucid, accessible....A lively, entertaining story for children who enjoy A Christmas Carol in its various guises....A must.

Charles Dickens The Man Who Had Great Expectations

Stanley, Diane & Vennema, Peter

Morrow Junior Books

The music box Christmas

Maggio, Rosalie

Cactus

Science & Math

Lerner, Carol

Biological Sciences

Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink

DeGroat, Diane

Anna Banana: 101 Jump-Rope Rhymes

COLE, JOANNA

Discusses the anatomy, characteristics, and behavior of birds, focusing on their ability to fly.

A Bird's Body

Children's Books

JOANNA COLE

Animals

When "Voluntary Simplicity" was first published in 1981, it quickly became recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the emerging dialogue over sustainable ways of living. Now, more than ten years later and with many of the planet's environmental stresses having become more urgent than ever, Duane Elgin has revised and updated his revolutionary book.
"Voluntary Simplicity" is not a book about living in poverty; it is a book about living with balance. It illuminates the pattern of changes that an increasing number of Americans are making in their everyday lives -- adjustments in day-to-day living that are an active, positive response to the complex dilemmas of our time. By embracing, either partially or totally, the tenets of voluntary simplicity -- frugal consumption, ecological awareness, and personal growth -- people can change their lives. And in the process, they have the power to change the world. First published in 1981, "Voluntary Simplicity" was instantly recognized as a visionary work. The "New York Times" called it "seminal"; the "Wall Street Journal" noted that it was "considered the movement's Bible." Revised in 1993 to address the trend toward downshifting, this pertinent book helps us to adjust our thoughts, habits, and goals and embrace the key elements of simplicity: frugal consumption, ecological awareness and personal growth.

Voluntary simplicity: Toward a way of life that is outwardly simple, inwardly rich

Self-Help

Elgin, Duane

Happiness

Fielder from Nowhere

Fielder from nowhere

Scholz, Jackson

The Double Life of Angela Jones

Teen & Young Adult

Colman, Hila

Literature & Fiction

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