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Katie and the waterlily pond

a magical journey through five Monet masterpieces
2011
Katie wants to win an art competition, so she studies the works of Claude Monet in order to gain inspiration for a painting.

Katie and the starry night

a magical journey through five Van Gogh masterpieces
2013
Katie cannot resist reaching in and taking a star while studying a Vincent Van Gogh painting in a museum, and soon the stars are floating into other Van Gogh paintings as she races to collect them before the museum guard notices.

William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

2013
A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans to assassinate him on the Ides of March.

Ahmek

1999
Ahmek, a young beaver establishes a rapport with an artist in the wilderness, only to have poachers destroy the beaver's dam. Ahmek escapes and sets out alone on a great adventure where he meets a charming cast of characters and finds happiness.

El so?ador

2010
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

The journey through time

Pyramid Puzzle
From the Jurassic period and the dinosaurs, to a medieval castle, Geronimo Stilton and a few members of his family embark on an adventure through time in Professor von Volt's new time machine, the Mouse Mover 3000.

A long walk to water

based on a true story
2013
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Fleshmarket

2003
In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.

Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle

a fictional account of Charles Darwin's work and adventures during the five-year-long voyage
1985
Drawing on journals and letters of Darwin and the captain of the Beagle, the author recreates the five-year-long voyage around the world during which Darwin studied firsthand many plants and animals, finding evidence to support the theory of evolution.

Little house in the Highlands

2007
An abridged version of the childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of six-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.

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