ICCAL » 19th century http://wowlit.org/catalog Browse our collection of literature Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:54:00 +0000 en hourly 1 The Firekeeper’s Son http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780618133376/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780618133376/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:56:47 +0000 Book Importer http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780618133376/ In Korea in the early 1800s, news from the countryside reached the king by means of signal fires. On one mountaintop after another, a fire was lit when all was well. If the king did not see a fire, that meant trouble, and he would send out his army. Linda Sue Park’s first picture book is about Sang-hee, son of the village firekeeper. When his father is unable to light the fire one night, young Sang-hee must take his place. Sang-hee knows how important it is for the fire to be lit-but he wishes that he could see soldiers  just once.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780618133376/feed/ 1 The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas (Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars) http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780439828369/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780439828369/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780439828369/ This series provides a unique new twist on Sherlock Holmes by having him assisted by a band of devoted boys, street urchins who love to solve mysteries, called the Baker Street Irregulars. These boys go everywhere, see everything, overhear everyone undetected.  In this exciting tale, Wiggins, Ozzie, Simon, and the rest–with the aid of Pilar, a gypsy girl–help Sherlock Holmes solve the case of the deaths of the Amazing Walendas,  a family of circus tightrope walkers.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780439828369/feed/ 0 Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780805077834/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780805077834/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780805077834/ Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution. Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold. In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety—or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Cole-ridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language, and their words changed literature forever.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780805077834/feed/ 0 Hans Brinker http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780803728684/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780803728684/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780803728684/ The story of Hans Brinker is a true classic, but few still read the novel, which was written in the 1860s. This is a tale of a family sticking together through hardship, and of wishes granted just in the nick of time. The race to win the silver skates is well-known, but the mystery of the watch and the missing riches is equally enticing.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780803728684/feed/ 0 Feed the Children First: Irish Memories of the Great Hunger http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780689842269/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780689842269/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780689842269/ The great Irish potato famine — the Great Hunger — was one of the worst disasters of the nineteenth century. Within seven years of the onset of a fungus that wiped out Ireland’s staple potato crop, more than a quarter of the country’s eight million people had either starved to death, died of disease, or emigrated to other lands. Photographs have documented the horrors of other cataclysmic times in history — slavery and the Holocaust — but there are no known photographs whatsoever of the Great Hunger.

In Feed the Children First, Mary E. Lyons combines first-person accounts of those who remembered the Great Hunger with artwork that evokes the times and places and voices themselves. The result is a close-up look at incredible suffering, but also a celebration of joy the Irish took in stories and music and helping one another — all factors that helped them endure.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780689842269/feed/ 0 The Magician’s Apprentice http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780823421503/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780823421503/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780823421503/ It’s summertime 1874 and Jago Stonecipher is tired of being pushed around. The penniless apprentice of a mean-spirited magican, Jago dreams of a better life. It seems his wish is granted when he finds a mysterious message in a watch, which unexpectedly sets off a dangerous chain of events.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780823421503/feed/ 0 The Traitors’ Gate http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780689853357/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780689853357/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780689853357/ When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.

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