Showing posts with label Middle School Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle School Literature. Show all posts
Saturday, June 12, 2010
The Way of the King's Palace, Eighth Grade Reader/Google Books
The way of the king's palace, Volume 8; Volume 1916
King's highway series
The Way of the King's Palace, Elias Hershey Sneath
Author Elias Hershey Sneath
Publisher Macmillan, 1916
Length 284 pages
Overview
King's highway series
The Way of the King's Palace, Elias Hershey Sneath
Author Elias Hershey Sneath
Publisher Macmillan, 1916
Length 284 pages
Overview
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The Long Walls: an American Boy's Adventures in Greece/Google Books
The long walls: an American boy's adventures in Greece; a story of digging and discovery, temples and treasure
Elbridge Streeter Brooks, John Alden
Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896
Length 328 pages
Overview
Elbridge Streeter Brooks, John Alden
Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896
Length 328 pages
Overview
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Fortune of the Republic/Google Books
Fortune of the republic
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher Houghton, Osgood and company, 1878
Length 44 pages
Overview
Eighth grade reading.
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher Houghton, Osgood and company, 1878
Length 44 pages
Overview
Eighth grade reading.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Enoch Arden: Including also the Lotus Eaters, Ulysses, Tithonus for School and Home Use/Google Books
Student version with Cliff Notes type background and analysis.
Enoch Arden: including also the Lotus eaters, Ulysses, Tithonus for school and home use
Author Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
Publisher E. Maynard & co., 1890
Length 54 pages
Overview
Enoch Arden: including also the Lotus eaters, Ulysses, Tithonus for school and home use
Author Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
Publisher E. Maynard & co., 1890
Length 54 pages
Overview
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle(1775): and Other Verse and Prose/Google Books
Generally read in 7th grade.
Grandmother's story of Bunker Hill battle: and other verse and prose
Riverside school library
Author Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891
Length 93 pages
Overview
Grandmother's story of Bunker Hill battle: and other verse and prose
Riverside school library
Author Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891
Length 93 pages
Overview
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The Vision of Sir Launfal/Internet Archives
The Vision of Sir Launfal: with notes and aids to study
Author James Russell Lowell
Publisher Houghton, 1905
Length 87 pages
Overview
"A narrative poem about a proud medieval knight who spends his life seeking abroad for the Holy Grail in vain, only to find it at home when he humbly gives a crust of bread and cup of water to a leper."
Author James Russell Lowell
Publisher Houghton, 1905
Length 87 pages
Overview
"A narrative poem about a proud medieval knight who spends his life seeking abroad for the Holy Grail in vain, only to find it at home when he humbly gives a crust of bread and cup of water to a leper."
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Snow-bound: Among the Hills and Songs of Labor(Classic Poetry)/Google Books
Snow-bound: Among the hills and Songs of labor. With explanatory notes
Author John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883
Length 74 pages
Overview
Author John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883
Length 74 pages
Overview
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Treasure Island with Teacher and Student Guide/Gooolge Books
Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson(unabridged)
Book is illustrated and contains teacher's suggestions for study, vocabulary list at Overview link page, biographical sketch, notes, and a book list. Introduction mentions that this edition is for seventh or eighth grade, but can adapted for earlier grades.
Treasure Island
Canterbury classics
Author Katharine Lee Bates
Editor Theda Gildemeister
Publisher Rand, McNally, 1903
Length 328 pages
Overview
Other Canterbury Classics for Children.
Book is illustrated and contains teacher's suggestions for study, vocabulary list at Overview link page, biographical sketch, notes, and a book list. Introduction mentions that this edition is for seventh or eighth grade, but can adapted for earlier grades.
Treasure Island
Canterbury classics
Author Katharine Lee Bates
Editor Theda Gildemeister
Publisher Rand, McNally, 1903
Length 328 pages
Overview
Other Canterbury Classics for Children.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
American Indian Story and Primer/Google Books
Kwahu, the Hopi Indian boy
Author George Newell Moran
Publisher American Book Company, 1913
Length 237 pages(color illustrations)
Download or read online here. Free and in public domain. Reading level about middle school and up.
Hopi paper dolls(1922) here.
For younger children, The Indian Primer, 1906. Readable online and downloadable.
Author George Newell Moran
Publisher American Book Company, 1913
Length 237 pages(color illustrations)
Download or read online here. Free and in public domain. Reading level about middle school and up.
Hopi paper dolls(1922) here.
For younger children, The Indian Primer, 1906. Readable online and downloadable.
Friday, January 22, 2010
The Children's Book: A Collection of the Best and Most Famous Stories and Poems in the English Language/Google books
The children's book: a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language
Author Horace Elisha Scudder
Compiled by Horace Elisha Scudder
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin, 1907
Length 444 pages
Overview
Author Horace Elisha Scudder
Compiled by Horace Elisha Scudder
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin, 1907
Length 444 pages
Overview
Canterbury Chimes, or Chaucer Tales Retold for Children/Google Books
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Christmas in Legend and Story: a Book for Boys and Girls/Google Books
Christmas in legend and story: a book for boys and girls
Author Elva Sophronia Smith
Compiled by Elva Sophronia Smith, Alice Isabel Hazeltine
Publisher Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1915
Length 283 pages
Overview
Author Elva Sophronia Smith
Compiled by Elva Sophronia Smith, Alice Isabel Hazeltine
Publisher Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1915
Length 283 pages
Overview
Thursday, November 5, 2009
The Bee-man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales/Google books
The bee-man of orn and other fanciful tales
Author Frank Richard Stockton
Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919
Length 193 pages
Overview
Middle school and up.
Includes Old Pipes and the Dryad
Author Frank Richard Stockton
Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919
Length 193 pages
Overview
Middle school and up.
Includes Old Pipes and the Dryad
Boy's Adventure Novel: The Aztec Treasure-house/Google Books
We haven't read this one, but did see it recommended for the seventh grade in this old children's resource bibliography.
Book overview from Google Books:
"The narrator travels in Mexico with a party including a Franciscan monk and an Indian youth, to find a lost race of Aztecs and a hidden treasure of gold, jewels and writings."
The Aztec treasure-house: a romance of contemporaneous antiquity
Author Thomas Allibone Janvier
Publisher Harper, 1890
Length 446 pages
Overview
Book overview from Google Books:
"The narrator travels in Mexico with a party including a Franciscan monk and an Indian youth, to find a lost race of Aztecs and a hidden treasure of gold, jewels and writings."
The Aztec treasure-house: a romance of contemporaneous antiquity
Author Thomas Allibone Janvier
Publisher Harper, 1890
Length 446 pages
Overview
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics/Google Books
A general study guide for fourth through eighth grade students.
Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics in the Grades of the Common School
Author Charles Alexander McMurry
Publisher Macmillan, 1904
Length 254 pages
Overview
Chapter Three is most useful followed by the list of books.
Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics in the Grades of the Common School
Author Charles Alexander McMurry
Publisher Macmillan, 1904
Length 254 pages
Overview
Chapter Three is most useful followed by the list of books.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Penelope's Irish Experiences/Google Books
Penelope's Irish Experiences
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901
Length 327 pages
Overview
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901
Length 327 pages
Overview
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Alhambra /Google Books
The Alhambra
By Washington Irving, Edward Kilburn Robinson, Norman Irving Black
Published by Ginn and company, 1915
370 pagesBegin reading here.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Mother Carey's Chickens/Google Books
Begin Reading here.
Main page.
Mother Carey's Chickens
By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911
355 pages
Mother Carey's Chickens
Amazon review: . Another heartwarming tale from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In this story the reader follows a strong-willed widow, Nancy Carey, as she struggles for the future of her beautiful daughters Nancy and Kitty and her beloved son Peter. Good humor and folksy grit help Mother Carey keep poverty and the wrong fellows for her daughters at bay.
An old fashioned story with old fashioned values - uplifting and edifying fiction.
Main page.
Mother Carey's Chickens
By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911
355 pages
Mother Carey's Chickens
Amazon review: . Another heartwarming tale from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In this story the reader follows a strong-willed widow, Nancy Carey, as she struggles for the future of her beautiful daughters Nancy and Kitty and her beloved son Peter. Good humor and folksy grit help Mother Carey keep poverty and the wrong fellows for her daughters at bay.
An old fashioned story with old fashioned values - uplifting and edifying fiction.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
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