Call Of The Wild

by Jack London

Characters:

Buck - a wise gigantic dog
Spitz - Buck's harsh contender
John Thornton - the considerate caretaker of Buck

The Story:

A gigantic dog named Buck is the son of a Scotch shepherd-dog mother and a St. Bernard father. Buck has incredible power and cleverness, that’s why he was stolen and owned by a harsh master in Klondike who teaches him to be a sleigh dog.

Toughened with his brutal surroundings, Buck was trained to battle. He had a bloody and dangerous fight over Spitz, the brutal leader of another team whom he defeated. Buck as the leader of their team headed his members to many harmful ice and snow journey’s.

A Girl of the Limberlost

by Gene Stratton Porter

Characters:

Elnora - part-time moth collector
Philip Ammon - the one assist in insects hunting
Mrs. Comstock - mother of Elnora
Wesley and Margaret Sinton - Elnora's relatives
Edith Carr - girl who grows in the city
Billy - an orphan boy

The Story:

Elnora Comstock went to an exclusive Onabasha high school without her mother’s consent. Her classmates ignore her because of the way she dressed. But then she gain friends because of her charisma, being simple and naturalness. Some girls made her join in the group. She has a certain friend named Ellen Brownlee who used to invites her at their house. Her classmates loved the delicacies Elnora always gave to them.

A Bird Woman purchase butterflies, cocoons, moths and other product from the forest from Elnora. She uses her earnings to buy books, paid for her tuition fees at school and buy clothes that she needs.  Billy and her two sisters became friends of Elnora, she helped them and gave them food. The siblings became orphan when their father died, Billy lives at Elnora’s Aunt Margaret and Uncle Wesley, and her sisters resides with their other family relatives.

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte

Characters:

Jane Eyre - young orphan girl
Edward Rochester - Thornfield Manor's owner
Bertha Mason - the ill wife of Rochester
Sisters Mary and Diana of Jane
Rev. St. John Rivers - the minister

The Story:

Young girl orphan Jane Eyre had an unhappy life while living with her aunt Mrs. Reed. Soon she studied at Lowood School where she also worked hard to finished school.  When she graduated, she was hired as governess of Adela Varens, an area of Mr. Edward Rochester, the owner of Thornfield Manor.

With her stay at the manor, Jane recognized strange actions. Jane has luckily saved Mr. Rochester from being blaze alive when she smells a smoke at the manor. And there are times that she heard a harsh yell, and on the next morning, Rochester had wound on his shoulder and his arm was twist. She then suspect that his wife made all of that.

Jane finds time to visit her vanishing aunt and left the manor for a while. Her aunt gave her a letter from his uncle who wants to live them together at the Madeira. But Jane refused the offer and chooses to go back to the manor. Upon returning, Rochester proposed her to marry him and she accepts it.

Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

Characters:

Hayvey Cheyne - son of a millionaire
Disko Troop - captain of fishing boat
Dan - Disko's son
Manuel, Penn, Long Jack and Old Salters

The Story:

A millionaire Californian ship-owner and businessman has a spoiled 15-year old son Harvey Cheyne. He rides a sea liner once and somebody gave him a cigar and he smokes it and became woozy and fell. Disko riding on his fishing boat then pass his way and saw him, he helped Harvey who looks somewhat unwell to him.

After then, Harvey proposes to Disko to take him to his father's office at New York in exchange of huge amount of money. But what Disko did instead, he hired Harvey as another boy in his boat and will be paid of $10.50 per month. Harvey learned lots about fishing for about four months of their fishing. And he now understands what sea life is is all about with the help of Disko and Dan, his son.

Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Characters:

Huck Finn - on the streets boy
Tom Sawyer - very close friend of Huck
Jim, Widow Douglas
Miss Watson, Judge Thatcher and others.

The Novel:

While searching a cave, Huck Finn and friend Tom Sawyer found a $12,000. The money was divided equally to the two boys by Judge Thatcher. Knowing Huck relaxed and no home to go, the judge placed him under the care of siblings Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. While Tom decline to study. Judge Thatcher decides to bring back Huck to his cruel father. Huck did not agree, instead encourage Tom to sail down to Mississippi River to search for adventure using the boat they made. Along their journey, they met a runaway negro boy named Jim and became a friend and helper too.

The boys go through lots of adventures, there were breathtaking and others were hilarious. They encounter two mischiefs, Duke and Dauphin who used them to swindle people. They staged them as Rome and Juliet earning $87 for theater tickets but people ran them out because they couldn’t portray the role.

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

Characters:

Tom Sawyer - a typical young boy
Huckleberry Finn - Toms buddy
Beck Thatcher - Tom's sweetheart
Aunt Polly - Tom's caring aunt
Sidney and Mary - his steps siblings

The Novel:

Tom Sawyer was frequently punished by his teacher because of all his trouble and naughtiness. But he was good in playing hockey at school. He was always in trouble with boys in their neighborhood. Often he will come home with torn shirt from unexpected day out with buddy Huckleberry Finn.

One day Aunt Polly directs Tom to clean their fence. He made his work thrilling and a resentful knowledge consequently; other boys entice him with offerings just to grip the brush.

Tom had a classmate named Becky Thatcher. He fell in love with Becky but she learned that Tom loved other girls before. Tom went to Huckleberry one night and upon passing the graveyard, accidentally they saw Dr. Robinson killed by half Indian Joe accompanied by Muff Potter for payment of a dead body that was dig up. Being afraid to the killer, Tom along with Huckleberry and friend Joe Harper, they sailed to Mississippi by a handmade raft.

The Shoemaker's Holiday

by Thomas Dekker

Characters:

Rowland Lacy - earl of Lincoln's young relative
Rose - daughter of London's mayor
Sir Hugh Lacy - the earl of Lincoln
Simon Eyre - the shoemaker of the mayor
Margery - wife of Simon

The Story:

The earl of London close relative Rowland loves the mayor’s daughter Rose. But the mayor and earl of Lincoln oppose their affair and did anything to end it. And to stop them, the earl sends Rowland to wars like in France as army colonel.

Rowland gets tired of being in wars; he resigns and gives his army compensation to his friends. Longing to see Rose again, he revisits London and masquerading as a Dutch shoemaker. Luckily, he became assistant to the master shoemaker Simon Eyre, whom the mayor and family members official shoemaker.

Red Rock

by Thomas Nelson Page

Characters:

Jackelin Gray - a brave young man
Blair Cary - the girl Jackelin loved
Steve Allen - Gray's cousin
Ruth Welch - a Northern girl

Story:

Jackelin Grayis is the family's present heir of plantation called Red Rock. It was named Red Rock because the rock has a red stain that came from the blood of and Indian chief who killed the spouse of the first Jackelin Gray. He was only a teenager when his father died because of Civil War.

Jackelin also go through several risk in the war. He got wounds and brought back to Red Rock to recover. The plantation was destroy and got in the hands of aliens. His mother got ill and suddenly died; Jackelin has no choice but to bury her to other land.

Luckily, he got his childhood friend Blair Cary's company. She loved her, but he thinks that his cousin Steve Allen comes closer to her. He keep distance because he don't want to be a hindrance to them but Blair got hurt and forced to keep Steve’s companionship.

They Loved To Laugh

by Kathryn Worth

Characters:

Martitia Howland - a young girl who became orphan
Dr. David Gardner - the kind town doctor
Eunice - Dr. Gardner's wife
Ruth - the daughter
Jonathan, Clarkson, Milton, Barzillai and Addison - Dr. Gardner's sons
Madame De La Brousse - a silkworm raiser

The Story:

There was a young girl who became orphan at 16 when her parents died because of typhoid fever. The kind Dr. Gardner brings Martitia to his home and introduce to her wife Eunice. She also met their sons Jonathan, Clarkson, Milton, Barzillai and Addison and daughter Ruth. Martitia easily came along with the boys, they make her laugh and forget the sadness she felt for a while. While Ruth does not want her that much because she doesn’t know many things in the house like cooking, sewing, weaving and even how to clean.

But that does not make Martitia lose hope; she is determined to learn. Her parents only teach her to paint and playing the spinet. The Gardner boys always having fun with her until one time she baked for them, they pretend to have stomach ache after eating the bread and when she almost want to cry because of fear they all laugh and tell it’s a joke.

The Necklace

by Guy de Maupassant

Characters:

M. Loisel - the simple clerk who was married to materialistic woman.
Madame Mathilde Loisel - the unsatisfied and unhappy woman.
Madame Forestier- the family friend of Loisel who owns the diamond necklace.

The Story:

There was a pretty and charming girl, Mathilde Loisel, who was born in a family of clerks. She let herself be married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instruction since; she had no dowry, no expectations and no means of being known.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Characters:

Romeo and Juliet - the lovers who experienced a disastrous love story
Friar Lawrence - the one who help the lovers

The Story:

A long time ago there was a boy and girl who fell in love with each other but, their families were enemies. Because of this very hard situation, they first exchanged vows on a balcony. They even met secretly and frequently and decided to marry. Everyday their love becomes deeper and deeper.

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

Characters:

Julius Caesar, ruler of Roman empire.
Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife.
Marcus Brutus, leading conspirator.
Caius Cassius, Brutus’ brother-in-law.
Marc Antony, orator and warrior.

The Play:

Julius Caesar returns to Rome from successful campaign in Spain. The Roman lovers of freedom fear however that Caesar intends to make himself a dictator. So Caius Cassius, Cinna and Casca plot to destroy Caesar. The latter is warned by a soothsayer to beware of the Ideas of March.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Characters:
Hamlet, a prince of Demark.
Claudius, brother of the Danish king.
Gertrude, widow of the king.
Ophelia, daughter of the chamberlain.
Laertes, brother of Ophelia.

The Play:
Hamlet, price of Denmark, learns that his uncle Claudius and his unfaithful mother Gertrude were responsible for the death of his father, the king. Unashamed and conscienceless, they reign as new king and queen of Denmark.

Anne Of The Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

Characters:

Anne Shirley, an orphan girl
Matthew Cuthbert, a shy husband
Marilla Cuthbert, his wife
Diana Barry and Gilbert Blythe, classmates

The Story:

Matthew Cuthbert and wife Marilla, whose house was known in Avonlea as Green Gables, wrote an orphanage to send them a boy to help in the farm work. The orphanage send little orphan Anne Shirley instead. They decided to keep her and Anne proved to be a bright, curious, sunny girl who showed spirit and temper now and then.

William Tell

by Friedrich Schiller

Characters:

WIlliam Tell, a Swiss hunter.
Gessler, a cruel governor.
Emperor Albrecht of Hapsburg royalty.

The Story:

The people of three forest cantons (provinces) of Switzerland - Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden - wanted independence from German Emperor Albrecht I. To stop them the emperor placed cruel rulers called governors in the Swiss cantons.