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4-6Story Library series.
Illustrated by
Andrew Davidson.
Twenty-one entries run the gamut from fiction (stories by James Berry and Rudyard Kipling) to nonfiction (an excerpt from Charles Darwin's journal) to religious text (the King James Bible's account of Noah's Ark). Many of the pieces are excerpted from longer works (including Charlotte's Web and The Call of the Wild) and remain more powerful in their original state.