Meg Murry and her father become involved with unearthly stranger and a search for Meg`s father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government

A Pilgrim girl makes the dangerous journey on the Mayflower to a new world filled with promise and unexpected hardships

As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century`s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father`s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him

Alice begins ger adventures when she follows the frantically late White Rabbit down a hole into the magical world of Wonderland

The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud"

In this collection of engaging and entertaining mini-comic books, students share in the adventures of time traveler Scooter McGinty as he celebrates Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims, rides through Lexington with Paul Revere, joins Lewis & Clark`s Corps of Discovery, supports women`s rights, and more. Includes background notes and teaching ideas

The book narrates a story of people who immigrated to New World. The story is based on a diary of a young girl. Good supplement material for country-study classes

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain`s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur`s Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur`s Camelot

A charning tale of the battle between bourgeois repression and redical romanticism, E.M. Forster`s third novel has long been the most popular of his early works