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2. The Adventure of the Six Napoleons - Wikipedia

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   The Return of Sherlock Holmes. " The Adventure of the Six Napoleons ", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Collier's in the United States on 30 April 1904, and in The Strand Magazine in the United ...

3. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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   The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published. [1] Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended ...

4. List of stories within One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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   Tale of the Man Who Was Lavish of His House and His Provision to One Whom He Knew Not. Tale of the Melancholist and the Sharper. Tale of Khalbas and his Wife and the Learned Man. Tale of the Devotee Accused of Lewdness. Tale of the Hireling and the Girl. Tale of the Weaver Who Became a Leach by Order of His Wife.

5. Dick and Jane - Wikipedia

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   Dick and Jane are the two main characters created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in the Elson-Gray Readers in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of books through the final version in 1965. These readers were used in classrooms in the United ...

6. Dear Mr. Henshaw - Wikipedia

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   0-688-02405-X. OCLC. 9371228. LC Class. PZ7.C5792 De 1983. Followed by. Strider. Dear Mr. Henshaw is a juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary and illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1984. [1] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books ...

7. Malgudi Days (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   7813056. Preceded by. The Dark Room. Followed by. The English Teacher. Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in ...

8. The Jungle Book - Wikipedia

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   The Jungle Book at Wikisource. The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Most stories are set in a forest in India ...

9. Caddie Woodlawn - Wikipedia

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   Caddie Woodlawn is a children's historical fiction novel by Carol Ryrie Brink [1] that received the Newbery Medal in 1936 and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The original 1935 edition was illustrated by Newbery-award-winning author and illustrator Kate Seredy. Macmillan released a later edition in 1973, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.