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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
This beautifully illustrated book contains all of Charles Dickens' novels, and the novella A Christmas Carol, all skilfully retold for children. The retellings simplify the novels for a young modern reader, with quotations from the original text throughout. Wonderful illustrations by Maria Surducan show the characters and the smoggy London scenes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Definitive, concise, and very interesting. From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
71) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Formats
Description
A graphic novel version of the classic, set in Victorian England, in which a poor orphan is forced into the workhouse at age eight and runs away to become a thief and has a series of misadventures before discovering his true identity.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Gary Colledge examines Dickens's novels, letters, and other writings to explore his Christian thought and worldview. Chapters examine Dickens's life and work topically, arguing that Christian faith was front and center in some of what he wrote (such as his children's work The Life of Our Lord) and saliently implicit throughout various other characters and plots. --from publisher description.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 16
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to help the famous writer, Charles Dickens, to write "A Christmas Carol"
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Twelve-year-old Meg travels the rooftops and streets of 1862 London, England, in search of her missing brother, Orion, accompanied by a family friend, the famed author Charles Dickens, whose quest is to find his next novel.
Pub. Date
c1998, p1999
Description
Christmas elicits nothing more than "Bah, humbug!" from Ebenezer Scrooge (Scott), a miser whose sole pursuit of financial success has left him a bitter and lonely old man. But a Christmas Eve visit from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future ultimately teaches him to open his heart to the spirit of Christmas and to the joys of friends and family.
78) Charles Dickens
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Discusses the life and works of the prolific 19th century British writer, known for such works as "Oliver Twist," "A Christmas Carol," "American Notes," and "A Tale of Two Cities."
80) Oliver & company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Oliver is a homeless kitten who roams the streets of New York City. There, he is taken in by a gang of homeless mutts who survive by stealing from others. During one of these criminal acts, Oliver meets a wealthy young girl named Jenny Foxworth. This meeting will forever change his life.
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