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The merchant of Venice

2010
A graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's dark comedy about a creditor who demands a pound of flesh as payment for a defaulted debt, and a lover who must choose among three caskets in a riddle game to win the hand of a wealthy lady.

The merchant of Venice

a play by William Shakespeare
2008
A graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's dark comedy about a creditor who demands a pound of flesh as payment for a defaulted debt, and a lover who must choose among three caskets in a riddle game to win the hand of a wealthy lady.

Coriolanus

1999
Presents the unabridged text of William Shakespeare's play "Coriolanus", with detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, and summary of the plat and individual scenes, and notes on the main characters.

Big and Bad

2008
An adaptation of the classic tale "Three Little Pigs" in which two clever cats decide to rid their locale of a vicious wolf--whose hunger threatens the entire planet--using three exquisitely pink pigs as bait.

There's a ghost in the coatroom

Adam Joshua's Christmas
1991
While planning a medieval Christmas feast for their parents, Adam Joshua and the other children in Mrs. D's class discover a ghost in the coatroom.

Rapacia

the second circle of Heck
2009
Formerly dead Milton Fauster tries to save his older sister Marlo from "eternal darnation" when she is sent to another educational level of the Underworld reform school known as Heck.

Rumpelstiltskin's daughter

1997
Rumpelstiltskin's daughter may not be able to spin straw into gold, but she is more than a match for a monarch whose greed has blighted an entire kingdom.

Grooves

a kind of mystery
2006
After a seventh-grader discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Thigpen.

The rocking-horse winner

1982
A boy growing up in a household where there is no love and no luck but always a shortage of money develops an uncanny ability to pick horse-race winners while furiously riding his wooden rocking-horse.

One is a feast for Mouse

a Thanksgiving tale
2008
On Thanksgiving Day while everyone naps, Mouse spots one pea, a perfect feast, but he cannot help adding all of the fixings--until Cat spots him.

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