"I have great honor," The Giver said. "So will you. But you will find that is not the same as power." Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units: one male, one female, to each. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. The community is …
First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.
Phileas Fogg adalah seorang pria asal Inggris yang hidup dalam kesunyian. Meskipun kaya raya, Fogg hidup sederhana. Pola pikirnya sangat matematis. Tak ada hal istimewa dalam hidupnya, kecuali bahwa ia adalah anggota Perkumpulan Reformasi. Artikel di surat kabar The Daily Telegraph memberitakan tentang pembukaan jalur kereta api di India, Fogg kemudian terlibat pertaruhan dengan para anggota…
Roberta, Peter, dan Phyllis hidup bahagia di Vila Edgecombe, tapi mereka tidak menyadari betapa bahagianya mereka sampai sesuatu terjadi… sesuatu yang memaksa mereka menjalani kehidupan yang sama sekali berbeda. Ketika Ayah terpaksa pergi beberapa lama, ketiga anak itu bersama Ibu meninggalkan rumah mereka di London dan pindah ke pondok kecil di pedesaan. Anak-anak itu mencari hiburan d…
Dataran Tortilla menggambarkan kehidupan kaum paisanos - rakyat jelata yang berdarah campuran Spanyol, Indian, Meksiko, dan Kaukasia, di sebuah daerah nelayan yang miskin. Danny, seorang non-konformis, memimpin sekelompok petualang, hidup bersenang-senang, tanpa pertimbangan buruk-baik. Tapi sebuah tragedi yang menimpa kelompok petualang ini merupakan amanat pengarang yang halus mengenai nilai …
SC Cilandak ( Bridging Later ) from the back cover: Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They…
SC Cilandak (Connecting)
Shakespeare's classic comedy retold for children growing in reading confidence and ability.
Harimau! Harimau! telah mendapat Hadiah Yayasan Buku Utama sebagai buku penulisan sastra terbaik tahun 1975. Buku ini dapat dibaca sebagai sebuah cerita petualangan di rimba raya oleh sekelompok pengumpul damar yang diburu oleh seekor harimau yang kelaparan. Berhari-hari mereka mencoba menyelamatkan diri mereka dan seorang demi seorang di antara mereka jatuh menjadi korban terkaman harimau. …
The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as The Origin of Species. Darwin's theory that species derive from other species by a gradual evolutionary process and that the average level of each species is heightened by the "survival …