Boxcar children

作者：  (美)钱德勒·华娜(Gertrude Chandler Warner)著;王强，高秀平译

出版社：湖北少年儿童出版社,2013

简介：棚车少年（The Box Children）      在惊险刺激的冒险中体验生活，在曲折离奇的经历中学会成长。让孩子在阅读中培养善良、真诚、勇敢、勤奋的品质。◆畅销60年的经典童书，全球销量超过2亿册。 ◆一个美国女教师用500个英语单词写成的探险励志故事，成为美国的国宝级儿童读物。 ◆入选美国全国教育协会“100本最受孩子们欢迎的经典童书”。 ◆让孩子在阅读中感受到勇气、智慧和良善的力量。 ◆每本书附赠原版英文。孩子中英文独立阅读的最佳启蒙读物。

Mike’s mystery

作者：  (美)钱德勒·华娜(Gertrude Chandler Warner)著;高秀平译

出版社：长江少年儿童出版社,2014

简介：

Pronouncing American English

作者：  (美)[G.F.奥赖恩]Gertrude F.Orion著

出版社：中国水利水电出版社,1999

简介：本书是一本全面、系统地讲解美语标准发音的难得的教材。它由美国权威的语言学专家编著，对元音、辅音、重音、语调等进行深入的讲解，展示了美语发音体系。书中大量的交流和小组活动，鼓励学生把学到的知识运用到实践中去。随书所配的磁带，便于读者模仿和练习。 本书将帮助中级到中高级水平的英语用户掌握清晰的美语发音要领和适宜的语音语调。适合中级到中高级水平的英语用户使用。

Old New York

作者：  Gertrude Stein 著

出版社： 2002年6月

简介：The four novellas collected here, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capture New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s. Originally published in 1924, this outstanding quartet includes False Dawn, about a rocky father/son relationship; The Old Maid, the best known of the four, in which a young woman's hidden illegitimate child is adoted by her best friend, with devastating results; The Spark, involving a young man and his moral rehabilitation -- "sparked" by a chance encounter with Walt Whitman; and New Year's Day, an O. Henryesque tale of a married woman suspected of adultery. Each reveals the codes and customs that ruled society of the time, drawn with the perspicacious eye and style that is uniquely Edith Wharton's. Pocket Books' enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This valume reprints the orginal New York Times Book Review feature on Old New York, a piece that helps fix the stories in the contemporary critical landscape. Also included are critical perspectives, suggestions for further reading, and a visual essay composed of authentic period illustrations and photographs.

老人与海 OLD MAN & THE SEA

作者：  Ernest

出版社：Scribner 1995年05月

简介：
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus
作者简介：
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899,and began his writing career for The Kansas City Star in 1917.During the First World War he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the halian front but was invalided home, having been seriously wounded while serving with the infanty. In 1921 t lemingway settled in Paris, where he became part of the expa-triate circle of Gertrude Stein, f:. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound,and Ford Madox Ford. With the appearance of The Sun Also Rises in 1926, Hemingway became not only the voice of the "lost generation" but the preeminent writer of his time. This was followed bv his novel of the Italian front, A Farewell to
Arms (1929). In the 1930s, Hemilngway setted in Key West,and hiter in Cuba, but he traveled widely---to Spain, Italy, and Africa. Later he reported on the Spanish Civil War, which be-
came the background for his brilliant war novel, for Whom the Bell Tolls (1939), hunted U-boats in the Caribbean, and cov-ered the European front during the Second World War. Hem-ingway's most popular work, The Old Alan and the Sea, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and in 1954 Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his powerful, style-forming mastery of the ari of narration." One of the most im-portant influences on the development of the short story and
novel in American fiction, i temingway has seized the imagina-tion of the American public like no other twentieth-century au-thor. tie died, by suicide, in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961. His other major works include To Have and Have Not (l937),Across the River and Into the Trees (1950), and posthumously, A Moveable Feast (1964), Islands in the Stream (1970), The Dan-gerous Summer (1985), and The Garden of Eden (1986).

Lighthouse mystery

作者：  (美)钱德勒·华娜(Gertrude Chandler Warner)著;高秀平译

出版社：长江少年儿童出版社,2014

简介：

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

作者：  (美)格特鲁德·斯泰因(Gertrude Stein)著;张禹九译

出版社：上海译文出版社,2012

简介：《艾丽斯自传》编著者格特鲁德·斯泰因。 　　 《艾丽斯自传（斯泰因文集）》是作者借用女秘书、终身伴侣艾丽斯的真名而写的。文笔幽默、语言简明、风格独特，是作者的代表作之一，也是最受读者喜爱的一部作品，同时还是理解作家本人的入门之作。它涵盖了作者旅居巴黎的三十年经历，大量的篇幅都用来描写艺术家的生活、她所结交的名人、他们之间的友谊、谈话甚至争执。书中对马蒂斯的描写充满了同情，对毕加索充满了亲切，对阿波利奈尔表现了赞赏，对海明威充满善意的讽刺，对庞德和艾略特的描写则是冷静而无奈的。 读完全书之后，每个读者必定都会在脑海里留下几幅形象鲜明的画面：关于马蒂斯，关于毕加索，关于海明威，关于战时的巴黎，关于花园街27号……《自传》以活力与奋激给那个时代带来了生机。

大篷车里的孩子们-喜岛＆印第安之角

作者：  (美)G.C.沃纳(Gertrude Chandler Warner)著;(美)M.戈尔绘图;彭敏等译

出版社：中国纺织出版社,2012

简介：

The Boxcar Children

作者：  [美]格特鲁德·钱德勒·沃纳(Gertrude Chandler Warner)著;彭敏等译

出版社：民族出版社,2004

简介：　　大棚车上的孩子： 　　 亨利、杰西、丽特和班尼四兄妹是孤儿，他们决心靠自己的力量生活。一个红色的大棚车成了他们的家，他们也就成了“大棚车上的孩子” 后来他们与爷爷相聚，并生活在一起。 　　 在四兄妹的生活中，总有着令人难以置信的奇遇和探险。他们和你一样，拥有一个丰富、善良、美好、多彩的童年和少年时光。 　　 想认识这四个7-16岁的朋友吗？他们将带你去破解一个个诱人的谜团，亲历一段段惊悸的冒险。你将从他们的故事中，增长智慧，提高能力！ 　　 惊喜鸟： 　　 一个夏天，孩子们在爷爷的私人小岛上度假。在岛上有一个神秘的陌生人，这个陌生人的身份成了一个难解之谜，而他总是在最关键的时候出手相助。而这，还不只是孩子们在惊喜岛上遇到的惟一惊奇的事…… 　　 黄房子的秘密： 　　 四个孩子试图解开围绕着一栋黄色小屋的谜团。很久以前这里有人失踪了，又发现了一封神秘的信件。孩子们穿越了原始森林去寻找答案。一路上，棕熊、驯鹿、印第安女孩，无不使孩子们感到惊奇。那么，故事的结局又是怎样的呢？ 　　 　　

斯图加特·密尔：时代精神，论自由，妇女的从属地位 Mill:

作者：  John Stuart Mill 著

出版社：华文出版社 1997-12-1

简介：This longanticipated Norton Critical Edition represents an extensive revision of its predecessor, On Liberty, edited by the late David Spitz. Alan Ryan's provocative introduction lays out the central issues debated by John Stuart Mill's many interpreters; in addition, it assesses Mill's historical significance and provides a brief account of his life.　　In recent years, scholars have increasingly focused on the connection between On Liberty and Mill's other writings. This Norton Critical Edition brings together three major essays that illustrate Mill's liberal political philosophy over the course of his life: "The Spirit of the Age" (1831), On Liberty (1859), and The Subjection of Women (1869). Related excerpts from John Stuart Mill's Autobiography (1873, published posthumously) are also included. Each text is accompanied by explanatory annotations. "Commentary" collects seven major assessments of MiII's writings. The contemporary perspectives of R. H. Hutton and James Fitzjames Stephen and the more recent analyses of Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, John C. Bees, Jeremy Waldron, and Susan Moiler Okin provide readers with a critical overview of one of the most important political philosophers. A Selected Bibliography and an Index are also included. ABOUT THE SERIES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretationsfrom contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory-as well as a bibliography and, in many cases, a chronology of the author's life and work. COVER ILLUSTRATION: Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, La Libertd, 1794. Paris Mus6e Carnavalet. Reproduced by permission of Giraudon/Art Resource. AUTHOR'S PORTRAIT: George Frederic Watts, John Stuart Mill. Reproduced by permission of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

神秘帽子的诡计＆美味馅饼店

作者：  (美)G.C.沃纳(Gertrude Chandler Warner)著;(美)D.格林惠斯绘图;彭敏译

出版社：中国纺织出版社,2012

简介：

古怪的珍妮奶奶＆拯救农场

作者：  (美)G.C.沃纳(Gertrude Chandler Warner)著;(美)D.格林惠斯绘图;彭敏译

出版社：中国纺织出版社,2012

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简介：W. H. Auden's first ten years in the United States were marked by rapid and extensive change in his life and thought. He became an American citizen, fell in love with Chester Kallman, and began to reflect on American culture and to explore the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr and other Protestant theologians. This volume contains every piece of prose that Auden wrote during these years, including essays and reviews he published under pseudonyms. Most have never been reprinted in any form since their initial publication in such magazines and newspapers as the Nation , the New Republic , Common Sense , Vogue , and the New York Times . Auden's prose during this period is frequently directly autobiographical even as he comments on literature, psychology, politics, and religion. The writings range from a dialogue about W. B. Yeats through a respectful parody of Gertrude Stein to Jamesian essays on Henry James. They also include lively and often profound responses to ancient and modern history as well as to contemporary issues in politics and religion. Other highlights include writings on opera and poetry as well as reports of Auden's lectures and the text of an unfinished autobiographical book, The Prolific and the Devourer . Throughout, Edward Mendelson's extensive and illuminating editor's notes explain all contemporary and private allusions. By making available a large cache of important but previously difficult-to-obtain writings on key subjects, this volume will be of obvious appeal to Auden's legions of admirers. It will also be enjoyed by everyone interested in twentieth-century literature, religion, and culture.

The great Gatsby /

作者：  by F. Scott Fitzgerald ; introduction and notes by Guy Reynolds.

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简介：弗?司各特?菲茨拉德(F.Scott Fitzgerald ，1896——1940)是二十世纪美国著名作家,"迷惘一代"的代表作家,短暂一生中只写有为数不多的几部作品，《了不起的盖茨比》是作家最具代表性的作品。 Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. This novel is a summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, it explores the superficially glittering world of mansions on the Long Island shore, and his encounter with Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. Synopsis: "He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was . . ." The Great Gatsby (1925), F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, stands among the greatest of all American fiction. Jay Gatsby's lavish lifestyle in a mansion on Long Island's gold coast encapsulates the spirit, excitement, and violence of the era Fitzgerald named 'the Jazz Age'. Impelled by his love for Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby seeks nothing less than to recapture the moment five years earlier when his best and brightest dreams - his 'unutterable visions' - seemed to be incarnated in her kiss. A moving portrayal of the power of romantic imagination, as well as the pathos and courage entailed in the pusuit of an unattainable dream, The Great Gatsby is a classic fiction of hope and disillusion. This edition is fully annotated with a fine Introduction incorporating new interpretation and detailing Fitzgerald's struggle to write the novel, its critical reception and its significance for future generations. Amazon.com In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream. It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. From AudioFile Christopher Reeve's smooth rhythm and soft-spoken tone accentuate Fitzgerald's flowing, elegant style. Since his character is an onlooker to events which take place in Gatsby's glittering but superficial world, Reeve also projects an appropriate distant quality. However, his vocal attempts to make each character well-defined seem to be an overwhelming task for one reader. Occasionally, it is hard to tell which character is speaking. Nonetheless, Reeve's ability to accurately evoke the emotions of the characters transcends this flaw. As a result, he delivers a noteworthy performance. M.P.T. About Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time between New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was hailed early on as a major new voice in American fiction; his other novels include The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. Book Dimension : length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6 点击链接进入中文版： 伟大的盖茨比

丁尼生诗歌 Tennyson’s Poetry

作者：  Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson　著

出版社：华文出版社 1999-7-1

简介：The Norton Critical Edition of Tennyson's Poetry, Second Edition, represents a significant revision of its predecessor and assimilates the Tennyson scholarship of the last twenty-five years. The texts of the poems are based on the Eversley edition of Tennyson's Works (published in nine volumes, 1907-09). Under earlier interdiction, the significant Trinity College, Cambridge, manuscripts have been incorporated here. The poems are organized chronologically, from "Unpublished Early Poems" and "The Devil and the Lady" through "Poems" (1872-92). "The Princess" appears in its entirety. Each poem is accompanied by ample explanatory annotation. 'Contexts" includes early assessments of Tennyson and his poetry by Arthur Henry Hallam, John Wilson, John Wilson Croker, John Stuart Mill, John Sterling, James Spedding, and James Knowles. "Criticism" collects seven seminal essays-six of them new to the Second Edition-on both Tennyson and the major poems. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, I S. Eliot, Isobel Armstrong, Herbert F. Tucker, Christopher Ricks, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Robert W Hill, Jr., present their varied perspectives. A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index are also included.

Three lives

作者：  (美)格特鲁德·斯泰因(Gertrude Stein)著;曹庸，孙予译

出版社：上海译文出版社,2012

简介：《三个女人》是格特鲁德·斯泰因的重要代表作之一。这个故事集通过三个女人的日常生活，展现了她们纯朴的心灵。安娜一生帮人为佣，过着辛苦劳累的生活，乐善好施，助人为乐，结果终因操劳过度，落得个重病而终；温柔的莉娜是个耐心耐性、温柔可爱的德国少女，逆来顺受，温驯一世，却死于难产；梅兰克莎在气质、思想上迥然不同于前两者，这个黑人姑娘敢闯敢撞，但又缺乏自信，过种欲进又退、退又想进的生活，最后生了肺病，死在济贫所里。

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简介：Includes poetry, short stories, essays, jokes, songs, and letters by Haim Isaac Karigal, Mordecai Shaftall, Haym Salomon, Jacob I. Cohen, Rebecca Samuel, Jacob Henry, Rebecca Gratz, Mordecai Manual Noah, Penina Moise, Isaac Leeser, Isaac Mayer Wise, Adah Isaacs Menken, Nathan Mayer, Emma Lazarus, Morris Rosenfeld, Yehoash, Sholem Asch, Mary Antin, Mani Leyb, I.J. Schwartz, Moyshe Nadir, Anzia Yezierska, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, Joseph Opatoshu, Celia Dropkin, Anna Margolin, Edna Ferber, H. Leyvik, Fradl Shtok, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, Gertrude Stein, Ludwig Lewisohn, A. Leyeles (Aaron Glanz), Charles Reznikoff, Jacob Glatstein (Yankev Glatshteyn), Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, S.J. Perelman, Louis Zukofsky, Berish Vaynshteyn (Berish Weinstein), Henry Roth, Tess Slesinger, Stanley Kunitz, Meyer Levin, Clifford Odets, Leo Rosten, Daniel Fuchs, Edwin Rolfe, Hortense Calisher, Paul Goodman, J.L. Teller, Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Irwin Shaw, Karl Shapiro, Arthur Miller, Isaac Rosenfeld, Ephraim E. Lisitzky, Malka Heifetz Tussman, Kadya Molodowsky, Carl Rakosi, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lionel Trilling, George Oppen, Chaim Grade, Emma Adatto Schlesinger, Gabriel Preil, Kate Simon, Tillie Olsen, David Ignatow, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Howard Nemerov, Grace Paley, Anthony Hecht, Shirley Kaufman, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Louis Simpson, Gerald Stern, Allen Ginsberg, Irving Feldman, Philip Levine, Cynthia Ozick, Elie Wiesel, John Hollander, Philip Roth, Oscar Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Frank Loesser, Stephen Sondheim, Sheldon Harnick, Chaim Potok, Adrienne Rich, E.M. Broner, Bruce Jay Friedman, Harold Bloom, E.L. Doctorow, Jerome Rothenberg, Allen Grossman, Tova Reich, Marge Piercy, Mark Mirsky, Robert Pinsky, Max Apple, Irena Klepfisz, Steve Stern, Art Spiegelman, Charles Bernstein, Edward Hirsch, Miriam Israel Moses, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Jacqueline Osherow, Allegra Goodman, and others.

本杰明·巴顿奇事/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

作者：  F. Scott Fitzgerald 著

出版社：家庭电子杂志社 2007年8月

简介：Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories. In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse. This strange and haunting story embodies the sharp social insight that has made Fitzgerald one of the great voices in the history of American literature. 作者简介： F.Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul,Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University,and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the Amer-ican expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein,Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four while working on Th Love of the Last Tycoon.

追踪“熊走的路”

作者：  (美)G.C.沃纳(Gertrude Chandler Warner)著;(美)M.戈尔绘图;彭敏译

出版社：中国纺织出版社,2012

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The 39 Clues#02: One False Note 39条线索-2：致命音符ISBN9780545060424

作者：  Gordon

出版社：Scholastic 2008年12月

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　　THIS JUST IN! Amy and Dan Cahill were spotted on a train, hoton the trail of one of 39 Clues hidden around the world. BUT WAIT!Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects ALSOsound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. UPDATE! Amy and Dan have beenseen in a car . . . no, in a speedboat chase . . . and HOLDEVERYTHING! They're being chased by an angry mob?!?
　　When there's a Clue on the line, anything can happen.

　　"Family continues to betray and prey on kin in this second"The 39 Clues" series book, which finds protagonists Amy and DanCahill aboard a train en route to Vienna, Austria. Pursuing a clueregarding composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the siblings findthemselves wandering through Salzburg's catacombs. After escaping adangerous cave-in, the pair eludes angry monks and competitors andtravels to Venice, Italy, to follow a lead. Suspense heightens asrival relatives and new foes chase the duo through Venetian canals.This title offers readers the constant action they expect, butstereotyped characters, unrealistic scenarios, and predictablecoincidences weaken storytelling. The supposedly malevolentMadrigals are mentioned with no further explanation. Korman'sdistinct style is occasionally evident in this formulaic book,particularly when giving voice to boys. Humorous scenes depictcharacters catering to Saladin, their finicky cat travelingcompanion. Historical information establishes clues, red herrings,settings, and characterizations and is often presented carelesslyfor entertainment. References to Mozart's sister Nannerl note shewas as musically talented as her brother but unappreciated toemphasize Amy's piano skills. The series' premise that the Cahillfamily includes most major historical figures is implausible andmisleading. This book's inaccurate claim that 18th-century painterGilbert Stuart's great-grandmother was named Gertrude Cahill isirresponsible to cite as fact, especially when some readers mightconsult these books as sources for history homework."
--Children's Literature