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纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖作品、美国国家图书奖获奖。赴美读中学的国际生必读书目，美国教育协会推荐童书。内容简介：在民主国家里，你认为以下所叙述的事情能够忍受吗?在公立小学上课，读的是别人十年前不用的破课本；到商店里买东西，老板不理会按规矩排队的你，的反而去招呼插队的客人；在人来人往的大街上，公然被人无理地打耳光。生活在一九二三年的美国黑人，就必须忍受这些不平等的待遇。凯西・罗根，是出生美国内战――也就是奴隶解放战争后约七十年的自由黑人。这个约莫十岁的女孩，是家中的掌明珠，也是一个勇敢女孩。她对于黑人所受到的压榨和不公平，感到十分愤怒和不解。她和她的兄弟们，曾为了报复向他们溅泥水的白人小学校车，在路上挖大洞，使得车子陷入其中不能动弹；她也曾为了一泄被白人女孩打耳光的怨气，声下气地讨白人女孩欢心，然后一举打垮白人女孩……在那个艰苦的年代中，白人的妄自尊大和黑人的不平之鸣，造成社会上的大冲突。白人们无法坐视当年是他们牛马的奴隶，靠着努力拥有合法的土地财产，便 想尽种种卑鄙的手段欺骗、剥削黑人们的血汗成果。有的黑人为了结交白人，不惜成为黑人社会中的叛徒。但是黑人和白人之间的友谊并不牢固一旦遇到利益冲突或惹上麻烦，黑人立刻成了牺牲品。白人将非洲黑人带进美国领土的那一刻起，便为日后的种族问题埋下了恶果。凯西一家的遭遇，只是大时代中的一个小小故事，种族间的冲突，到现在仍然继续在全世界发生。

与人为善，善有善报，恶有恶报，是不少童话故事力求表现的另一主题。人一生要正直善良，要与邪恶作斗争。你对别人好别人也会对你好；假如你不走正道，而去作恶多端，做对人对社会不利的事，你最终会自食其果。

Harold Monkhouse is usually such an uncomplaining patient so when his brother Amos calls in one night, what he doesn't expect is to see him at death's door. Suspicions aroused, he demands an urgent second opinion. And when Harold is later found dead from arsenic poisoning, Amos is left in no doubt that foul play is afoot. The inquiry begins and Barbara Monkhouse is soon singled out as the prime suspect. What ensues is a roller coaster ride into crime fiction at its best as the truth of the fateful night eludes even the best of detective minds. Could it be a simple case of wife poisoning husband-or is it just possible that another shadowy figure stole into Harold's room, as a thief in the night, to rid the world of an innocent man?

A great safari had come to Africa to make a movie. It had struggled across the veldt and through the jungle in great ten-ton trucks, equipped with all the advantages of civilization. But now it was halted, almost destroyed by the poisoned arrows of the savage Bansuto tribe. There was no way to return. And ahead lay the strange valley of diamonds, where hairy gorillas lived in their town of London on the Thames, ruled by King Henry the Eighth. Behind them came Tarzan of the Apes with the Golden Lion, seeking the man who might have been his twin brother in looks -- though hardly in courage!

A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters

Vineland is a 1990 novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan's re-election. Through flashbacks by its characters, who have lived the sixties in their youth, the story accounts for the free spirit of rebellion of that decade, and describes the traits of the fascist Nixonian repression and its War on drugs that clashed with it; and it articulates the slide and transformation that occurred in the traits of American culture between the two 1960s to the 1980s.  

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

According to Aristotle in On the Heavens, the heavenly bodies are the most perfect realities, (or "substances"), whose motions are ruled by principles other than those of bodies in the sublunary sphere. The latter are composed of one or all of the four classical elements (earth, water, air, fire) and are perishable; but the matter of which the heavens are made is imperishable aether, so they are not subject to generation and corruption. Hence their motions are eternal and perfect, and the perfect motion is the circular one, which, unlike the earthly up-and down-ward locomotions, can last eternally selfsame. As substances, celestial bodies have matter (aether) and form (a given period of uniform rotation). Sometimes Aristotle seems to regard them as living beings with a rational soul as their form[1] (see also Metaphysics, bk. XII) This work is significant as one of the defining pillars of the Aristotelian worldview, a school of philosophy that dominated intellectual thinking for almost two millennia. Similarly, this work and others by Aristotle were important seminal works by which much of scholasticism was derived.