Synopsis: This is a fiction book set in the farmland of the Salinas Valley in California. It follows the two families of the Trasks and the Hamiltons. This is a biblical parable of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel. The Trask family is made up of Charles and Adam Trask, Caleb (Cal) and Aaron …
Synopsis: This is a short story about Della Dillingham Young and her husband Jim, a poor couple who are very loving towards one another. Della only has $1.87 to buy a present for Jim and sells her most prized possession, her long brown hair to buy a watch chain for Jim. Jim sells his watch …
Synopsis: This is a short story about a young girl named Marie whose favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and defeats the evil Mouse King in a battle, and then takes Marie to a magical kingdom full of dolls. On Christmas Eve, Marie Stahlbaum and her siblings receive several gifts including a nutcracker. The …
Synopsis: This is a short story about Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser businessman who is visited first by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and afterwards the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Jacob Marley tells Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits and that if he listens to …
Synopsis: This is a fiction book about a magical circus that only opens at night. It is called Le Cirque des Reves (The Circus of Dreams) and only opens at night. It is about two rival magicians, Celia Bowen, the daughter of the famous illusionist, Prospero the Enchanter, and Marco Alisdair, the orphan ward of …
Synopsis: This is a short story set in Sleepy Hollow, New York. It is about Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolteacher. He is interested in Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of a wealthy farmer. His rival Abraham (Brom) Bones is also interested in Katrina. One night, Ichabod attends a harvest party at the home of the …
Synopsis: This is a fiction story set at Hill House, an old, isolated, mansion surrounded by hills. Dr. John Montague, an investigator of the supernatural, has rented Hill House for the summer and invited Eleanor Vance and Theodora as his guests because of their previous experience with paranormal events. Luke Sanderson, the young heir to …
Synopsis: This is a children’s fiction book about Peter Pan, a mischievous boy, who can fly and lives on the island of Neverland which is inhabited by mermaids, pirates, fairies, and Native Americans. He is an eternal child and will never grow up. This story also involves Wendy Darling, and her brothers John and Michael, …
Synopsis: This is a children’s fiction book about a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world called Wonderland full of unusual creatures including the White Rabbit, the Mouse, the Dodo, the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Queen of Hearts, and the King of …
Synopsis: This is a children’s fiction book about a ten- year old boy named Billy Colman. He lives in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma with his mother, father, and three younger sisters. Billy has always wanted a pair of red-bone coonhounds for coon hunting. After saving two years for them, Billy walks twenty miles to …