John Groth
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 71
Language
English
Description
Gone with the Wind is a story of love, hope and loss set against the tense historical background of the American Civil War. The lovers at the novel's centre -- the selfish, privileged Scarlett O'Hara and rakish Rhett Butler -- are magnetic: pulling readers into the tangled narrative of a struggle to survive that cannot be forgotten.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Baumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under...
5) Studio: Asia
Author
Publisher
World Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
Artist-correspondent John Groth presents an informal account of war-ridden Korea and East Asia, a narrative and pictorial document combining drawings with candid interviews and eyewitness accounts into word-and-pen pictures of the local peoples and of the UN Army with it's American GI's, British, Dutch, French, New Zealanders, Turks, Greeks, and Belgians.--BOOK JACKET
6) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story. In our electronic age, children are more likely to dial up a website than curl up with a book. But in DK Classics, expert abridgments and retellings are matched with brilliant illustrations to create books which will capture the attention of today's visually sophisticated...