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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"When A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 it was an overnight success, and set a precedent that was to be followed by other Christmas books, including The Chimes (1844) and The Cricket (1845). Each book was published at the same time of year, in the same format, and extolled similar values about the virtues of love, charity and the family unit. But none would achieve the cult status of A Christmas Carol, a book so popular it has become part...
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Description
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories is a gift box full of Dickens's writings and reflections on the Yuletide season. It includes the full text of A Christmas Carol, featuring all eight illustrations from the first edition by John Leech, the artist who gave fanciful form to Dickens' vision of Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, and the spirits of Christmas. In addition, it includes "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," a tale told...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late. Includes featurettes, and deleted scenes.
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
The once mean and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge was forever changed by his ghostly Christmas Eve encounter. Now one year later, Scrooge receives another posthumous visit from his old business partner. It seems Jacob Marley is not yet finished with Mister Scrooge. Sent on a journey 170 years into the future, Scrooge encounters a world even colder an greedier than his own, a world that includes a young cutthroat businessman named Timothy Cratchit VI.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
16) Scrooge
Pub. Date
2003
Description
The classic Charles Dickens tale of the cold hearted miser who is reformed by the Ghosts of Christmas.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
"Monica Banks is a workaholic. There's no room in her life for home, family, or love. Until on snowy night when a ghost from Christmas past - a spirit named Ebenezer Scrooge - appears to take her on a journey through her own life to teach her that it's never to late to let the joy of the season into our heart..."--BOOK JACKET.
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Description
Scrooge is a cynical old man whose greatest concern is money. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner, who arranges for Scrooge to be visited by three spirits. Begins with a sequence set in 1857, the site of a live reading by the renowned Dickens. As he begins his story a woman screams because she has seen a mouse and Dickens points out that his story begins with a mouse. Dickens explains that the...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
There is just one more shopping day left before Christmas. Fred is so wrapped up in his acting debut as Scrooge in the Bedrock production of A Christmas carol that he has completely forgotten to buy any gifts. And worse, he's left baby Pebbles stranded at Cave Care Center. Luckily, Wilma and a few familiar ghosts perform a true Christmas miracle by helping Fred remember the true meaning of the season.