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Wakulla, A Story of Adventure in Florida

"The Schooner ‘Nancy Bell’"

by Kirk Munroe

The Elmers board a train for the first time and then board a schooner called the Nancy Bell. They offer Jan Jensen a job.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Chapter 13”

by Mark Twain

Huck and Jim steal the robber's boat, but send a ferryman to rescue them from the wreckage. Huck feels he has done a good deed.

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Part 6, Chapter 4: The Sea-Serpent

by Hugh Lofting

Awakened by Polynesia, Tommy witnesses a rare sea creature just of the coast. Doctor Dolittle turns to the porpoises in an attempt to free the poor creature.

The Last of the Mohicans

Chapter 30

by James Fenimore Cooper

Uncas’ mistaken identity saves all but one prisoner from Magua’s grasp. The group vows to pursue Magua.

Silas Marner

Part 1, Chapter 6

by George Eliot

Some of the villagers gather at the Rainbow, where the landlord is resolving a dispute.

Vanity Fair

Chapter 65: Full of Business Pleasure

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Joseph pays a visit to Becky. Dobbin departs after a heated discussion.

The Scarlet Letter

Chapter 23: “The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter”

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dimmesdale finishes his Election Day sermon, which focuses on the relationship between God and the communities of mankind, and has an encounter with Hester to whom he makes a confession.

The Jungle

Chapter 23

by Upton Sinclair

Jurgis returns to Packingtown and finds work digging tunnels. An injury and hospital stay force Jurgis to become a beggar.

Two servants, Miss Abbott and Bessie Lee, escort Jane to the red-room, and Jane resists them with all of her might. Once locked in the room, Jane catches a glimpse of her ghastly figure in the mirror, and, shocked by her meager presence, she begins to reflect on the events that have led her to such a state. She remembers her kind Uncle Reed bringing her to Gateshead after her parents’ death, and she recalls his dying command that his wife promise to raise Jane as one of her own. Suddenly, Jane is struck with the impression that her Uncle Reed’s ghost is in the room, and she imagines that he has come to take revenge on his wife for breaking her promise. Jane cries out in terror, but her aunt believes that she is just trying to escape her punishment, and she ignores her pleas. Jane faints in exhaustion and fear.

Main Street

Chapter 4

by Sinclair Lewis

After taking a look around, Carol is unnerved by the stature and state of the buildings in Gopher Prairie. Bea Sorensen's tour of Gopher Prairie leaves her awestruck.

The Blithedale Romance

Chapter XX: “They Vanish”

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Coverdale makes an attempt to "protect" Priscilla, who chooses to leave with Zenobia and the professor.

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Chapter 3

by James Weldon Johnson

The narrator reflects on his first exposure to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Twenty Talks to Teachers

Chapter 15: The Value of a High School Course

by Thomas E. Sanders

A list of the reasons for and benefits of having a child take high school classes.

Anne of Green Gables

Chapter 6: Marilla Makes Up Her Mind

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

A proposition is offered to Marilla by Mrs. Spencer.

Presidential Addresses and Messages

First Inaugural Address, New York, April 30, 1789

by George Washington

George Washington's first inaugural address delivered at Federal Hall in New York City, April 30, 1789.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Chapter 8: “The Valley of Voices”

by L. Frank Baum

Dorothy and the gang come upon invisible people and animals that live there. They learn not to eat the fruit.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Adventure 3: “The Stockbroker’s Clerk”

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes is faced with a case involving a man that is lured away from his place of business and is caught up in strange activity.

Melmoth the Wanderer

by Charles Robert Maturin

The central character, John Melmoth, is a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life and spends that time searching for someone who will take over the pact for him; the novel actually takes place in the present, but this backstory is revealed through several nested stories-within-a-story that work backwards through time (usually through the Gothic trope of old books).