After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

A textbook reader for young adults features "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" by Ernest J. Gaines, plus short stories, poems, and essays designed to build reading comprehension.

Tells the story of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who kept a diary during two years of hiding from the Germans in an Amsterdam attic.

Hamlet: Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery.

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a group of pilgrims on their way fromSoutwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

In the early days of the French Revolution, a young Englishman determins to do the utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine.