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Watership Down (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Richard Adams
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
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A Study Guide for Richard Adams's "Watership Down," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
3) Shardik
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The Beklan Empire volume 1
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Richard Adams's Watership Down was a number one bestseller, a stunning work of the imagination, and an acknowledged modern classic. In Shardik Adams sets a different yet equally compelling tale in a far-off fantasy world. Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the...
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2010
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An internationally bestselling comic novel in which a man—with the help of a bunny—suddenly realizes what’s important in life
“Escapism at its best . . . Just pure fun.” —NPR.org
“Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?” With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic...
“Escapism at its best . . . Just pure fun.” —NPR.org
“Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?” With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic...
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This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps-all inspired by literary classics-offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, A Christmas Carol, and more. Sure to reignite a love for old favorites and spark fresh interest in more recent works...
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The second book in Tim Davys's Mollisan Town quartet-following the critically-acclaimed Amberville-Lanceheim is a literary and psychological drama in which the trials and tribulations of stuffed animals Reuben Walrus and Wolf Diaz illuminate the moral and philosophical dilemmas of humans. If you enjoy the works of Chris Moore (You Suck, Fool), Neil Gaiman (Stardust, Coraline), Clifford Chase (Winkie), and Jasper Fforde (The Big Over Easy)-or classics...
7) Traveller
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"Call Traveller, and you will get home safely".'Traveller' is the story of the American Civil war as seen through the eyes of Traveller, famous horse of the great Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Now old and in retirement in the stable of his master, the beautiful iron-grey Traveller relates the story of his life to the stable cat Tom. Traveller's understanding, feelings and impressions about events and people sometimes miss the mark, but his loyalty...
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Richard Adams, author of 'Watership Down' and described recently as a legend of literature, was born in Newbury in 1920 as the replacement for a baby brother who died in the great influenza epidemic of 1917-19. His mother was well over 40 at the time of his birth, and his was a solitary childhood spent in a large garden. Here he explains how his days spent watching bird, beetles and wild creatures around his home engendered in him a lifelong love...
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Hard-boiled sleuths at work! With spring, the Greater Garden jurisdiction erupts into a hotbed of crime, where beer-smugglers and predators threaten the law-abiding snails.Officer Gowoon slogs her way through sticky cases, wary of the lightning-fast giants who own the territory. A sharp sense of smell gives her the best crime-solving rate of the GGPD, a feat her hermaphrodite superiors resent. She can always count on her patrol partner Zgouish, but...
10) Crime & Bave
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Nul jardin n'est à l'abri du crime...Le district du Grand Jardin grouille de criminels et de prédateursqui menacent les honnêtes gastropodes. Chaque officier de policegarde un oeil sur les trappes à bière et l'autre tourné vers le ciel,duquel la mort peut plonger à tout moment, sous les semelles desgéants qui dominent le territoire.Examinant un corps desséché, le meilleur limier du SPGJ soupçonneun meurtre. Malgré la piste de bave évaporée,...
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Did You Know?
• The authors of literary classics Watership Down, The Water Babies, Madame Doubtfire and the Little White Horse all lived and wrote in Hampshire, using real places as their inspiration.
• Hampshire's inhabitants include Men of the Trees, Verderers, Green Men and Old Green Bowlers.
• Hampshire is a county of pioneer journeys: & the first flight in a piloted heavier-than-air machine, and the starting point of both the first...
12) Neversink
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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Barry Wolverton's masterful middle-grade debut, Neversink, is an epic tale of some very un-epic birds, a fast-paced and funny story of survival, friendship, and fish, in the vein of Watership Down and Kathi Appelt's The Underneath. Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have...
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An eighth title in the popular Bridesmaids series aimed at 6 - 8-year-old girls, but not excluding the boys!
Buffy is always playing tricks on her friends and trying to make them jump. She has a wicked streak in her. She's been asked to be a bridemaid at a wedding where the bride and groom have an equally weird sense of humour - they dress in gothic style, so Buffy has to too! However, for a girl who loves scaring other people Buffy is easily scared...
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A fifth title in the popular Bridesmaids series, aimed at 6 – 8 year old girls [but not including the boys, of course!] Jess is a talented young athlete. When her athletics teacher asks her to be a bridesmaid at their wedding, she jumps at the chance! But this is a wedding with a difference – the bride and groom are to run in a marathon and Jess has to run part of the way with them! But when a traffic jam threatens to stop her getting to the reception,...
15) War Bunny
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Winner - 2022 International Book Awards - Fantasy
"A rebel rabbit turns the world of predators and prey on its head in this debut fantasy. An entertaining, imaginative post-apocalyptic scenario with special appeal for animal lovers." -Kirkus Reviews
"Great for fans of Richard Adams's Watership Down." -BookLife by Publishers Weekly
"Animal Farm for a new generation." -IndieReader
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BUNNY FIGHTS BACK?
In a...
16) Duncton Wood
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The epic first instalment of the multi-million bestseller The Duncton Chronicles.
The moles of Duncton Wood live in the shadow of Mandrake, a cruel tyrant corrupted by absolute power. A solitary young mole, Bracken, is leads the fight to free them. Only by putting his trust in the ancient Stone, a forgotten symbol of a great spiritual past, can he find the strength to challenge Mandrake's darkness.
When Bracken falls in love with Rebecca, Mandrake's...
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For Jerry, nothing ever turns out the way he wants it to.Join Jerry the Squirrel in this fun set of short stories as his inventions lead him on hilarious adventures that captivate both children and adults alike!Jerry the Squirrel can also be heard on Chat and Spin Radio on Thursdays at 7pm (UK time)."I've never read anything quite like it before. The tongue-in-cheek humor and squirrel protagonists in a slightly off kilter fantasy world is like a delightful...
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To be sure, some brothers and sisters have relationships that are easy. But oh, some relationships can be fraught. Confusing, too: How can two people share the same parents and turn out to be entirely different?
Marie Brenner's brother, Carl-yin to her yang, red state to her blue state-lived in Texas and in the apple country of Washington state, cultivating his orchards, polishing his guns, and (no doubt causing their grandfather Isidor to turn in...
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An amazing guide to some of the most beloved, original, inspiring, hysterical, heart-warming, compelling, rude and downright scary books that have enchanted children the world over. In 100 Children's Books That Inspired Our World, author Colin Salter surveys an exceptional collection of truly groundbreaking children's books—from Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer to the graphic novels of Dr. Seuss. All the classic children's authors are represented with one...
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Fans of the children's literature classic, Watership Down, will be glad that animals have a voice again.
Extinction, habitat destruction, deforestation... How would you feel if your home was, flattened to make space for others?
Countless wild animals, great and small, experience this every day.
This is their story.
Dakota the Deer, Flint the Fox, Bentley the Bat and other animals live in a forest, co-existing in an uneasy truce with some nearby humans....