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Heron Books - Hard to Find Words for Classic Stories

One has a choice one can read the original stores and look up the words or one can read a rewritten dumbed downed edition to make it easier. If you would like to read or have your child or students read the original story as the author wrote it these glossaries make it easier by providing simple easy to understand definitions.

The definitions are all organized by chapters with an alphabetical word list in the back of the glossary. There is a list of references in the back of each glossary where one can verify the definitions and get additional information about the story.

There are separate glossaries for:

David Copperfield by Charles Dickerson

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

Betsy In Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Amos Fortune Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

From the Hard-to-Find Words Glossary for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Sample page from the The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Glossary of Hard-to-Find Words

Sample page from the The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Glossary of Hard-to-Find Words


		David Copperfield Glossary of Hard-to-Find Words				The Secret Garden Glossary of Hard-to-Find Words

		The Long Walk Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms				Johnny Tremain Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms

		The Cay Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms				Betsy In Spite of Herself Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms

		The Witch of Blackbird Pond Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms				King of the Wind Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms

		The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms				A Little Princess Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms

		Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms				The Bronze Bow Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms

		Rifles for Watie Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms				The adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms

		Amos Fortune Free Man - Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms				A Christmas Carol - Glossary of Hard-to-Find Terms