Gemma Barder

Provides information about different cat breeds, and presents the physical features, behaviors, life cycle, diet, habitat, and proper care of cats. Highlights the history of cats, and profiles famous cats in media. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a quiz, and a glossary.

Provides information about dog breeds, and presents the physical features, behaviors, life cycle, diet, habitat, and proper care of dogs. Highlights the history of dogs, and profiles famous dogs in media. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a quiz, and a glossary.

Provides information about different horse and pony breeds, and describes their physical features, behaviors, life cycle, diet, habitat, and proper care. Also profiles famous horses in history and media. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a quiz, and a glossary.

Provides young learners with a colorful exploration of major cities around the world organized by continent. Each city profile includes a maze, puzzle, or activity.

Charmingly imperfect Catherine Morland is invited to Northanger Abbey, the home of new friends. Hearing exaggerated reports of her wealth, the head of household General Tilney encourages a marriage between his son Henry and Catherine. Before matters can be settled, Catherine must learn to distinguish between books and real life, false friends and true.

As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her "duty"--To arrange the lives of others. Considered by most critics to be Austen's most technically brilliant achievement, "Emma" sparkles with ironic insights into self-deception, self-discovery, and the interplay of love and power.

Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed novelist and editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

An adapted and illustrated edition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Newland Archer is a respectable man from a respectable family, comfortable in New York society. So when his wife's cousin Ellen returns to America, planning to divorce her husband, gossip about the family starts to spread. As Newland spends more time with Ellen a friendship between them grows. But this friendship will put both his social...

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Ilya Oblomov should be the happiest person in St Petersburg. He has a fashionable house, a large country estate, and endless invites to fancy dinners and glamorous balls. But Oblomov finds things difficult. The outside world overwhelms him. Even thinking about it makes him exhausted! He would much rather stay inside in his warm, comfy bed. Can Oblomov...

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticizing the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away traditional values of contemporary Russian society. Turgenev's...