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A Midsummer Night's Dream, a comedy believed to have been written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1597, portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world

Hardcover:

9781905716784 | Reprint edition (Collectors Library, March 1, 2012), cover price $7.95 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream
9780712350327, titled "A Midsommer Nights Dreame: A Facsimile from the First Folio" | British Library Board, January 15, 2009, cover price $25.00 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream
9780554723952, titled "A Midsummer Nights Dream" | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, August 30, 2008), cover price $30.99 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream

Paperback:

9781530845132 | Prm ill edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 2, 2016), cover price $5.49 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream
9781530155491, titled "A Midsummer Night?s Dream" | Createspace Independent Pub, February 22, 2016, cover price $9.99 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream | About this edition: A Midsummer Night's Dream, a comedy believed to have been written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1597, portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta.
9781523796816, titled "A Midsummer Night´s Dream" | Createspace Independent Pub, January 31, 2016, cover price $6.00 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream
9781522902423 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 24, 2015, cover price $11.00 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream
9781519613073 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 1, 2015, cover price $5.99 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream
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Library:

9781424213337, titled "Midsummer Night's Dream" | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $30.77 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream

Reinforced:

9780606055925 | Demco Media, February 1, 1993, cover price $13.35 | About this edition: An illustrated, abridged verison of the Shakespeare comedy with background information and explanatory stage directions.

Prebinding:

9780606386067 | Turtleback Books, July 3, 2003, cover price $15.95 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream

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The gods of Olympus come to life as the whole array of Greek mythology is creatively reconstructed into a continous narrative tale
By Edward Blishen, Zevi Blum (illustrator) and Leon Garfield

Hardcover:

9780394821306 | Random House Childrens Books, April 1, 1971, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: An account, based on Greek myths, of the beginning of the world and the forces that rule the universe and the destiny of man.

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Paperback:

9780857533111 | Transworld Pub, June 1, 2015, cover price $19.99

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A stunning holiday book by beloved Otis creator Loren Long In this charming Christmas story, a toy drummer boy embarks--accidentally--on a journey on which he plays his drum and warms the hearts of everyone he encounters, from a rat to a snowman. Set against a snowy landscape by the bestselling Loren Long, this is a perfect read for chilly winter evenings. Long brings this story of an unforgettable little drummer boy to vivid life with his timeless and magical art.

Paperback:

9781782950585 | Red Fox, May 1, 2015, cover price $13.99
9780142423417, titled "Drummer Boy" | Reprint edition (Puffin, October 11, 2012), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A stunning holiday book by beloved Otis creator Loren Long In this charming Christmas story, a toy drummer boy embarks--accidentally--on a journey on which he plays his drum and warms the hearts of everyone he encounters, from a rat to a snowman.

Library:

9780394908557 | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1969, cover price $5.69 | About this edition: After the defeat of their regiment in France, a drummer boy and six other survivors struggle back to England and uncertain destinies.

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Paperback:

9780099583271 | Reprint edition (Random House Uk Ltd, April 1, 2015), cover price $12.99
9780317940176, titled "Search for the Fountain of Youth: The Miracle of the Bees" | Norman Errinton Productions, April 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | also contains Search for the Fountain of Youth: The Miracle of the Bees

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Paperback:

9781782950691 | Gardners Books, February 26, 2015, cover price $11.40

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Product Description: A New York Review Children's Collection OriginalThe Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are the best of friends...read more

Hardcover:

9781590177839 | New York Review of Books, November 11, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A New York Review Children's Collection OriginalThe Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are the best of friends.

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An almost Goldlike man leads a ragged band of German Protestants across Europe with the promise of a new and better life in America, only to abandon them in London where many starve and die.

Hardcover:

9780670237234 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1979, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: An almost Goldlike man leads a ragged band of German Protestants across Europe with the promise of a new and better life in America, only to abandon them in London where many starve and die.

Paperback:

9781782950707 | Gardners Books, August 4, 2014, cover price $15.20

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Paperback:

9781782950646 | Gardners Books, December 2, 2013, cover price $11.80

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A dozen tales of apprentices in eighteenth-century England portray young boys placed in service for seven years, small wages, and chancy reward and reveal Hogarthian and Dickensian corners of their lives

Paperback:

9781782950639 | Gardners Books, October 30, 2013, cover price $15.20
9780140315950 | Reprint edition (Viking Childrens Books, March 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A dozen tales of apprentices in eighteenth-century England portray young boys placed in service for seven years, small wages, and chancy reward and reveal Hogarthian and Dickensian corners of their lives

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Product Description: A Carnegie Medal Honor BookTwelve-year-old Smith is a denizen of the mean streets of eighteenth-century London, living hand to mouth by virtue of wit and pluck. One day he trails an old gentleman with a bulging pocket, deftly picks it, and as footsteps ring out from the alley by which he had planned to make his escape, finds himself in a tough spot...read more

Hardcover:

9781590176757 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, October 15, 2013), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A Carnegie Medal Honor BookTwelve-year-old Smith is a denizen of the mean streets of eighteenth-century London, living hand to mouth by virtue of wit and pluck.

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Product Description: If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again.When orphan Jack stows away on the Charming Molly, he never guesses that he'll be sailing off on the adventure of a lifetime with a crew of pirates...read more

Hardcover:

9780192728005 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 8, 2009, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: If you love a good story, then look no further.

Library:

9780394913230 | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1965, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: If you love a good story, then look no further.

An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.

Hardcover:

9780374372774, titled "The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2001, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.

Paperback:

9780374471217, titled "The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2001, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.
9780440400578 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, July 1, 1988), cover price $3.25 | About this edition: Harris and Bostock run into trouble when they devise a plan involving Harris' younger sister Adelaide

Library:

9780394923222, titled "The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris." | Random House Childrens Books, November 1, 1971, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: An experiment to see if a wolf will suckle an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two boys when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.

Reinforced:

9780606228220 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $14.87 | About this edition: An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.

Prebinding:

9780613502504 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $15.55 | About this edition: An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.

Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.

Hardcover:

9780374370824 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2000, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.
9780745104485 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, June 1, 1991), cover price $16.95
9780844664552 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: "Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer, exciting storytelling.

Paperback:

9780374467623 | Sunburst, September 1, 2000, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.
9780440480440 | Yearling Books, October 1, 1987, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A young pickpocket in eighteenth century London takes a document he cannot read from a man's pocket and a moment later sees the man murdered by two men who want the document

Library:

9780394916415 | Random House Childrens Books, February 1, 1978, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: "Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer, exciting storytelling.

Reinforced:

9780606216746 | Demco Media, July 1, 2001, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.

Prebinding:

9780613307420 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.

A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.

Hardcover:

9780374308278 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2000, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.
9780394807133 | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1969, cover price $4.50 | About this edition: A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.

Paperback:

9780374406967 | Sunburst, September 1, 2000, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.

Reinforced:

9780606216739 | Demco Media, July 1, 2001, cover price $14.87 | About this edition: A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.

Prebinding:

9780613302791 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.

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Short-story adaptations of nine of Shakespeare's greatest plays include 'Antony and Cleopatra,' 'Measure for measure,' 'As you like it,' 'Cymbeline,' and 'King Richard the Third'
By Michael Foreman (illustrator) and Leon Garfield

Hardcover:

9780395708934 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1995, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Short-story adaptations of nine of Shakespeare's greatest plays include 'Antony and Cleopatra,' 'Measure for measure,' 'As you like it,' 'Cymbeline,' and 'King Richard the Third'

Paperback:

9780395891094 | Sandpiper, April 24, 2000, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Short-story adaptations of nine of Shakespeare's greatest plays include 'Antony and Cleopatra,' 'Measure for measure,' 'As you like it,' 'Cymbeline,' and 'King Richard the Third'

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Product Description: How to introduce children to Shakespeare, not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of Shakespeare’s language and the depth of his characters: That’s the challenge that Leon Garfield, no slouch as a wordsmith himself, sets out to meet in his monumental and utterly absorbing Shakespeare Stories...read more
By Michael Foreman (illustrator) and Leon Garfield

Hardcover:

9781590179314 | New York Review of Books, November 3, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: How to introduce children to Shakespeare, not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of Shakespeare’s language and the depth of his characters: That’s the challenge that Leon Garfield, no slouch as a wordsmith himself, sets out to meet in his monumental and utterly absorbing Shakespeare Stories.
9780395563977 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1991, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.
9781850891055 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, December 1, 1986), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.

Paperback:

9780395861400 | Houghton Mifflin, March 30, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.

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A second book of retellings of Shakespeare plays. The plays included are 'King Lear', 'Hamlet', 'As You Like It', 'Julius Caesar', 'Henry IV part one' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'.

Hardcover:

9780435124496 | Gardners Books, February 15, 1996, cover price $15.55 | About this edition: A second book of retellings of Shakespeare plays.

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On an expedition to buy goods from the East, Gelbert Becket is captured and held for ransom in a Saracen prison, where he is tended by his captor's lovely daughter.
By Leon Garfield and John O'Brien (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780671866464 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1994, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: After being captured by pirates and sold as a slave, a forgetful young Englishman faces a long imprisonment because he can't remember where the ransom note should be sent

An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare tragedy with background information and explanatory stage directions
By Leon Garfield (editor)

Reinforced:

9780606055932 | Demco Media, February 1, 1993, cover price $13.35 | About this edition: An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare tragedy with background information and explanatory stage directions

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Product Description: A dramatic and eerie story of lost identity and family secrets, told in Leon Garfield's memorable and distinctive style. George Treet is happy with his life as part of a family of travelling actors. But George's world turns upside down when he discovers that Mr Treet is not his real father, and that he must go and live with his real family...read more

Hardcover:

9780844664521 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A dramatic and eerie story of lost identity and family secrets, told in Leon Garfield's memorable and distinctive style.
9780582186606, titled "Devil in the Fog" | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, June 1, 1971, cover price $3.60 | About this edition: A dramatic and eerie story of lost identity and family secrets, told in Leon Garfield's memorable and distinctive style.

Paperback:

9780440400950 | Yearling Books, October 1, 1988, cover price $3.25 | About this edition: Fourteen-year-old George's family of traveling actors inform him that he is actually the son of a dying, wealthy man and send him to stay with his real family, a group of mean, sickly, even murderous people.

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Nick knows that his sister, Jubilee, must learn to read and write before she can become independent and make it in London, so he enrolls them both, in the famous Blewcoat charity school
By Leon Garfield and Ted Lewin (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780385297776 | Delacorte Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An opportune meeting with a pickpocket and a pupil from a charity school sets events in motion that drastically and irrevocably change the lives of an orphaned brother and sister existing by their wits in the streets of London.

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Abigail helps King Nebuchadnezzar to overcome his madness and learn a lesson about the importance of God
By Michael Bragg (illustrator) and Leon Garfield

Hardcover:

9780688041069 | William Morrow & Co, November 1, 1988, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: A little girl named Abigail finds mad King Nebuchadnezzar eating the flowers in her garden and helps him return to his palace and to God.

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In Victorian London, Barnacle, a chimney sweep's assistant, finds himself pursued by the sinister Inspector Creaker

Hardcover:

9780745105888 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, October 1, 1987), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A young sweep's fall down the wrong chimney in Victorian London lands him in the center of a terrifying chain of events that includes espionage, treachery, and murder.

Paperback:

9780140320701, titled "The December Rose" | Reissue edition (Viking Childrens Books, November 1, 1988), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: In Victorian London, a chimney sweep's assistant finds himself pursued by the sinister Inspector Creaker.

Unsettling words from his father before he dies set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where he encounters an odd assortment of characters, some of whom seem determined to kill him.

Hardcover:

9780385282949 | Doubleday, October 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Unsettling words from his dying father set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where, in the course of searching for his father's mysterious business partner John Diamond, he encounters an odd assortment of characters, some of whom seem determined to kill him.

Paperback:

9780440401025 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, November 1, 1988), cover price $3.25 | About this edition: In eighteenth-century England, William Jones, constantly plagued with guilt feelings over something his father did many years ago and hoping to redress the situation, sets out for London in search of a man named Alfred Diamond

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