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Great Girl Stories
A Treasury of Classics from Children's Literature

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Information

• First edition:
  • KingFisher, 1999, US.
    • Stories chosen by Rosemary Sandberg
• Contains:
  • Matilda
  • "Milly-Molly-Mandy" by Joyce Lankester Brisley
  • "Ramona The Pest" by Beverly Cleary
  • "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri
  • "The Worst Witch" by Jill Murphy
  • "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • "The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum
  • "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • "Pollyanna" by Eleanor H. Porter
  • "Pipi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren
  • "What Katy Did" by Susan Coolidge
  • "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
  • "Seven Little Australians" by Ethel Turner
  • "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
  • "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
  • "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Fun Stuff

• Matilda Trivia Quiz

Teacher Resources

• Matilda
  • Reading Quiz
    • Online reading quiz with questions from the book
  • Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary
    • Includes excerpt from the text and interactive worksheet
  • Sorting Out Homophones
    • Lesson plan where students learn how to identify homophones in a reading passage and how to best use the Visual Thesaurus to help them decide on the appropriate homophones to complete quotations from the book

Cover Illustration

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Kingfisher, 1999
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