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This series is published by McGraw-Hill Education under license from Chooseco. It adapts 30 of the Chooseco reissues, aiming them primarily at ESL learners. A graded reader series uses simplified language, suitable for struggling readers and for those learning English as a second language. [5] [6] See also Extensive reading.
My Side of the Mountain is a middle-grade adventure novel written and illustrated by American writer Jean Craighead George published by E. P. Dutton in 1959. [1] It features a boy who learns courage, independence, and the need for companionship while attempting to live in the Catskill Mountains of New York State.
The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain is a 1995 novel by Christopher Monger. The book, narrated by the author, is claimed to be based on a story heard by him from his grandfather about the real village of Taff's Well , in the old county of Glamorgan, and its neighbouring Garth Hill .
The Shepherd of the Hills is a book written in 1907 by author Harold Bell Wright and illustrated by Frank G. Cootes. [1] It depicts a mostly fictional story of mountain folklore and forgiveness, and has been translated into seven languages since its release.
The Wandering Hill is a novel by Larry McMurtry published in 2003. It is the second, both in chronological and publishing order, of The Berrybender Narratives . Set in the year 1833, it recounts the Berrybenders' journey up the Yellowstone River into the Rocky Mountains.
Lloyd Jones in The Guardian noted that the novel is "a big and ambitious novel charting new territory in Australian contemporary fiction. There is much to admire." [2] Eleanor Limprecht in The Sydney Morning Herald found the novel "is a complex, multi-layered novel, so that the central story is viewed through different angles, in different lights, and comes to mean many different things.
Finalist for 2010 Washington State Book Award [9] The Boys in the Boat, Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics (2013) [12] Was a finalist of 2014 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in non-fiction category [13] Shortlist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2013 [14] Notable Books Online 2014 ...
The first version with the title "The Little Engine That Could" appeared in 1920 in the U.S., in Volume 1 of My Book House, a set of books sold door-to-door. [2] This version began: "Once there was a Train-of-Cars; she was flying across the country with a load of Christmas toys for the children who lived on the other side of the mountain". [2]