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Bilbo Baggins enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling farther than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep to whisk him away on a journey to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a […]

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Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal, but eventually to true understanding, self-knowledge, and love. In this supremely satisfying story, Jane Austen balances comedy with seriousness, and witty observation with profound insight. This new edition includes a new introduction, updated notes,

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one

ince writing his million-copy bestseller, The Read-Aloud Handbook, in 1982, Jim Trelease has traveled to all 50 states and abroad, advocating the benefits of reading aloud to children. IN doing so, he’s won the applause of both teachers and parents for his pleas in behalf of literacy efforts that contain less “pain” and more focus

Oh, The Places You’ll Go! From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 3– The master of enjoyable didacticism offers a flight of fancy into the future of a generic “you” who is venturing out into the world, where he will have ups and downs but will succeed and finally “MOVE MOUNTAINS!” While doting relatives will find this

But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure, and wild forest animals to make their way home to the family they love.

A while later a hunter came by with his trap.   The ant knew what he was up to.  “How can I let this hunter catch the dove that saved my life?” he thought.  “I must do something!   He hurried across the path, climbed the man’s leg and then gave him a very sharp bite.   The