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Banner in the Sky
by James Ramsey Ullman

ISBN 0064470482 (0-06-447048-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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The Citadel
It stands unconquered, the last great summit of the Alps. Only one man has ever dared to approach the top, and that man died in his pursuit. He was Josef Matt, Rudi Matt's father.
At sixteen, Rudi is determined to pay tribute to the man he never knew, and complete the quest that claimed his father's life. And so, taking his father's red shirt as a flag, he heads off to face the earth's most challenging peak. But before Rudi can reach the top, he must pass through the forbidden Fortress, the gaping chasm in the high reaches of teh Citadel where his father met his end. Rudi has followed Josef's footsteps as far as they will take him. Now he must search deep within himself to find the strength for the final ascent to the summit -- to plant his banner in the sky.
His father died while trying to climb Switzerland's greatest mountain -- the Citadel -- and young Rudi knows he must make the assault himself. [via]
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Banner in the Sky
by Ramsey

ISBN 0671546295 (0-671-54629-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &

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Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie Wrightson

ISBN 0887331939 (0-88733-193-9)
Softcover, Underwood Books

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Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie Wrightson

ISBN 0887331947 (0-88733-194-7)
Hardcover, Underwood Books

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Bloomability
by Sharon Creech

ISBN 006440823X (0-06-440823-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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My second life began when I was kidnapped by two complete strangers...
That the kidnappers are actually Aunt Sandy and Uncle Max makes no difference to thirteen-year-old Domenica Santolina Doone, better known as Dinnie--she just doesn't want to go. Dinnie's accustomed to change, with her family constantly moving for "opportunity"--but when her aunt and uncle whisk her far away to an international school in Switzerland, she's not sure she's ready to face this "opportunity" alone.
All at once she finds herself in a foreign country, surrounded by kids from different cultures speaking all sorts of languages and sharing various beliefs. Home and her first life seem so far away.
But new friendships and the awesome beauty of Switzerland begin to unlock thoughts and dreams within her. Her joys and struggles make up a rich tapestry of experiences she can find nowhere else. Switzerland begins to be more than a temporary home--it becomes a part of Dinnnie herself, the self she never knew she could be.
Switzerland is the picturesque backdrop of Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech's new novel about a young girl discovering the beauty of nature, her place in the world, the value of friendship--and that life is full of wonderful "bloomabilites."
01 Blue Spruce Award Masterlist (YA Cat.), 00-01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Grds. 6-8), Pacific NW Library Assoc. 2001 Young Reader's Choice Award Masterlist, and 00-01 South Carolina Book Award Masterlist(Grds 6-9)
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Frakenstein
by Mary W. Shelly

ISBN 846630407X (84-663-0407-X)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 1561561428 (1-56156-142-8)
Softcover, Kidsbooks

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Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankenstein
by Deanna McFadden, Jamel Akib

ISBN 140272666X (1-4027-2666-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Mary Shelleys tragic story of a scientist who created a monster is perhaps even more compelling and meaningful today than when it was written nearly two centuries ago. From the bits and pieces of dead bodies, and the power of electricity, the brilliant Victor Frankenstein fashions a new form of lifeonly to discover, too late, the irreparable damage he has caused.
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Frankenstein
by Mary . Shelley

ISBN 1562548980 (1-56254-898-0)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub

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The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation as it destroys everything Victor loves is a powerful story of love friendship and horror. Grades: 4 - 12. Level(s): Intermediate Middle School High School. Author: Mary Shelly. Binding: Paperback. Publishing Date: Jan 2005. Number of Pages: 61. Language: English. [via]
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Frankenstein (Original 1818 Text)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 1551113082 (1-55111-308-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Clear Print)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 1406821683 (1-4068-2168-3)
Softcover, Echo Library

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This clear print title is set in Tiresias 13pt font for easy reading [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lynd Ward

ISBN 1850790701 (1-85079-070-1)
Hardcover, New Orchard Editions

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Heidi
by Johanna Spyri

ISBN 1853261254 (1-85326-125-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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What happens when a little orphan girl is forced to live with her cold and frightening grandfather? The heartwarming answer has engaged children for more than a century, both on the page and on the screen. Johanna Spyris beloved story offers youngsters an endearing and intelligent heroine, a cast of unique and memorable characters, and a fascinatingportrait of a small Alpine village.
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Heidi
by Dk

ISBN 0756612764 (0-7566-1276-4)
Softcover, Dk Pub

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Heidi
by Dalmatian Press Staff, Johanna Spyri

ISBN 1577595467 (1-57759-546-7)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press

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Orphaned at an early age and taken in by her young aunt Dete, Heidi--short for Adelheid--is soon in the way. Dete has a new and better job where Heidi is not welcome, so the child must live with her curmudgeon of a grandfather high on the Alm Mountain in the Swiss Alps.
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Heidi
by Sarah Stephen

ISBN 043922506X (0-439-22506-X)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated

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A beautiful retelling of this timeless classic. Heidi is the perfect introduction to classic stories for younger readers.

Heidi, a lively orphan girl, goes to live with her cranky grandfather in a little hut high in the Alps. Soon she is happy and healthy, leading a carefree life with her grandfather, her new friend, Peter, and the goats on the Alm.
But Heidi's happiness is short-lived when she is sent to stay with a rich city family as a companion for a sick girl, Clara. Although she grows fond of the older girl, Heidi is terribly homesick. She eventually returns to the Alps and finds happiness once again in the clean, pure natural mountain setting.
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Heidi Book and Charm
by Johanna Spyri

ISBN 0694014532 (0-694-01453-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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Heidi is only five when she is taken to live high in the Alps with her unusual grandfather. Despite his gruff ways, Heidi grows to love her Grandfather and their life together in the mountains. Her happiness is shattered when her aunt takes her to Frankfurt, but she soon finds her way back home. Discover one of the most charming heroines of all time in Johanna Spyri's classic novel.
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Heidi (IC) Revised
by Johanna Spyri

ISBN 0816772363 (0-8167-7236-3)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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Carefully abridged and beautifully illustrated, Troll Illustrated Classics bring alive the greatest stories for a new generation of readers. [via]
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Hotel Du Lac
by Anita Brookner, Robin Desser

ISBN 0679759328 (0-679-75932-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed..."A classic ...a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now". (Spectator). "A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever". (The Times). "Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart". (Observer). "Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding". (Hilary Mantel, Guardian). "She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction". (Literary Review). Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism. [via]
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LA Place De LA Concorde Suisse
by John A. McPhee

ISBN 0374519323 (0-374-51932-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Anyone who has ever traveled in Switzerland cannot help but to have remarked upon the overwhelming tranquility of the country. But this tranquility is illusory. As John McPhee writes in La Place de la Concorde Suisse, a rich journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society, "there is scarcely a scene in Switzerland that is not ready to erupt in fire to repel an invasive war." With a population smaller than New Jersey's, Switzerland has a standing army of 650,000 ready to be mobilized in less than 48 hours. The Swiss Army, known in this country chiefly for its little red pocketknives, is so quietly efficient at the arts of war that the Israelis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model. You'll understand why after reading this outstanding book. [via]
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 0877547467 (0-87754-746-7)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein is remembered as a novel valuable in itself and prophetic of an intellectual world to come. It is seen as depicting a Prometheanism that is still with us. In this text noted critics examine subjects surrounding the novel such as creation as catastrophe, Frankenstein as the negative Oedipus, and a piece by Joyce Carol Oates on Frankenstein?s fallen angel.
The title, Mary Wollsonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Mary Wollsonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Mary Wollsonecraft Shelley, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Mary Wollstonecraft Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 0939766752 (0-939766-75-2)
Softcover, Marvel Enterprises

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The Mortal Immortal
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 1892391015 (1-892391-01-5)
Softcover, Tachyon Pubns

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This collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, and will hopefully shed much needed light on an author often credited with writing the first science fiction novel. Here you will find the secrets of eternal youth, souls that exchange bodies, and ancient Englishmen and Romans newly thawed out of ice. In addition to several stories by Mary Shelley, this volume also features a brand new story by renowned science fiction author Michael Bishop. This work serves as a narrative introduction for this collection. Mary Shelley's considerable reputation rests squarely on the shoulders of her one great novel - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 and revised under her own byline in 1831. Her powerful tale of blasphemous creation is perhaps more familiar to modern readers through its many film adaptations as it is from the book itself. From Boris Karloff's electrifying performance as Frankenstein to Kenneth Branaugh's latest directorial rendering, the story has received numerous interpretations which have renewed interest in the book time and time again. However, Shelley's other works have not fared as well as Frankenstein. She wrote just a handful of novels, of which only The Last Man (1826) has remained sporadically in print, due to its great length and slow, ornate and often tedious use of language. A precursor to such disaster novels as George R. Stewart's Earth Abides and Richard Jeffries' After London, The Last Man follows its protagonist Lionel Verney through a distant future world which has been depopulated by plague. The shorter works of Mary Shelley have remained even more obscure. During her lifetime, she published just over two-dozen stories, only three of which were of interest to readers of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to these three supernaturally-themed stories, two additional stories were published after Shelley's death. "Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman," was printed in a volume of reminisces by a magazine editor who had commissioned the story thirty years earlier. "Valerius: The Reanimated Roman," a story in a similar vein to "Roger Dodsworth," remained unpublished until 1976, when both stories were discovered by Charles E. Robinson, a Shelley scholar and professor of English at the University of Delaware. [via]
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A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
by Dorothy Gilman

ISBN 0816133697 (0-8161-3369-7)
Softcover, G.K. Hall

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The Rough Guide to Switzerland
by Matthew Teller, Kev Reynolds, Lucy Ratcliffe

ISBN 1843530643 (1-84353-064-3)
Softcover, Rough Guides

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Philipp M. Gollner (reader), Zurich, Switzerland: "One of the best travel books on Switzerland ... the Rough Guide stands out because of its thoroughness: it goes well beyond the usual travelbook sketches to include specific information on transportation, accommodation, dining and local customs. Unlike other guides, it has extremely useful information on local regulations, for which Switzerland is sadly famous. For example, it notes that 'parking in Switzerland is hellish', and goes on to describe in detail the parking regulations in Zurich and Geneva (which almost require you to have a law degree to understand)." [via]
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Tomi Ungerer's Heidi
by Johanna Spyri, Helen B. Dole

ISBN 0385302444 (0-385-30244-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books

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The dramatic story of Heidi has enthralled generations of children. Tom Ungerer's Heidi evokes all the charm and imaginative power of the original--here in its complete text. 150 illustrations, 30 in full-color. [via]
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Tomi Ungerer's "Heidi": The Classic Novel
by Tomi Ungerer, Johanna Spyri

ISBN 1570981620 (1-57098-162-0)
Hardcover, Rinehart Publishers, Roberts

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The dramatic story of Heidi has enthralled generations of children. Tom Ungerer's Heidi evokes all the charm and imaginative power of the original--here in its complete text. 150 illustrations, 30 in full-color. [via]
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Treasures of the Snow
by Patricia St. John, Mary Mills, Gary Rees

ISBN 0802465757 (0-8024-6575-7)
Softcover, Moody Pub

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Now illustrated with full-color photographs, this abridged version of a classic will delight even the youngest child in the family. Wonderful to read aloud! When Annette gets Lucien into trouble at school, he decides to get back at her by threatening the most precious thing in the world to her: her little brother Dani. But tragedy strikes. Annette is so filled with rage she sets out to alienate and humiliate Lucien at every turn. As Lucien seeks to repent and restore, light floods both of their dark hearts, and Christ proves that he makes all things new.
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Frakenstein
by Mary W. Shelly

ISBN 8440619537 (84-406-1953-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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