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Scholastic Classics: Secret Garden Ne Pb
Frances Hodgson Burnett, the oldest daughter of an immigrant family that arrived in America in 1865 following the death of her father, was born in Manchester in 1849. Frances was a storyteller from her childhood and began writing professionally after the family’s fortunes declined in post-Civil-War Tennessee. Her novel That Lass O’ Lowries (1876-7) was her first success. She then consolidated the story with several other popular novels and plays. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), was her most successful work, but her classics for children, A Little Princess (1905) & The Secret Garden (1911) are what she is most remembered. Mrs Hodgson-Burnett’s private life was marred by two unhappy marriages. However, she became an American citizen in 1906 and settled on Long Island until her death in 1924.
Mary Lennox, ten years old, is left orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his huge mansion. What secrets await inside?SKU: PRK9389628425 -
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The Giver – Essential Modern Classics
LOIS LOWRY was born in Hawaii on the 20th March 1937. She is the author of more than thirty novels and has twice been awarded the Newbery Medal for The Giver and Number the Stars. Her father was an Army dentist, and her family moved all over the globe. Brown University was her first choice, but she left to marry and raise four children. After moving to Maine, she received a degree at the University of Southern Maine. When she began writing in the 1970s, she fulfilled a childhood dream.
It is a perfect world where everything appears to be fine, but there are ugly truths beneath. It is the future. There is no hunger, war or pain. The Community has no need for anything. Everybody is taken care of. Each Family Unit has one male and one female child. The Committee of Elders carefully selects each member of The Community’s profession. They never make mistakes. Jonas, a twelve-year-old boy who was sensitive, never believed there was anything wrong in his Community. That changed one day. His life changes dramatically the moment Jonas becomes the Receiver of Memories at The Ceremony. Jonas learns that The Community isn’t as perfect as they think. They appear to have all they need, but they are missing something very important. Jonas and the Giver are tasked with finding what was long ago lost. So Jonas sets out on an adventure to save the universe as he knows.SKU: PRK0007341764
