{"product_id":"campfire-graphic-novelsisbn-9789380028570","title":"Campfire Graphic Novels","description":"Oliver Twist's life has been a hard and desperate one. With his mother dying during his birth, and having no idea who his father was, Oliver has spent his first nine years struggling to survive in a world that has little pity for a poor orphan\u003cbr\u003esuch as him.\u003cbr\u003eAfter Oliver gets involved with the nefarious Fagin and the sinister Bill Sikes, he is wounded during a burglary. Oliver is rescued by Sikes's intended victims, the young Rose Maylie, and her guardian, Mrs Maylie. At last, the boy finds a loving\u003cbr\u003ehome and people who care for him.\u003cbr\u003eBut how long will Oliver's happiness endure, especially when Fagin begins to conspire with a mysterious stranger with a link to the boy's past?\"It is no small task to condense one of Dickens's most beloved and frequently retold stories from 400 pages into a mere 88 while maintaining the major plot developments. However, remarkably, this graphic novel version is generally a success. . . . Owing to the minor violence and complexity of Dickens's plot twists, this would be suitable for middle school students who like darker stories; think A Series of Unfortunate Events for older readers.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003e Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"I \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ehighly recommend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Campfire’s comics. They do what they are intended to do and do it in  a way that excites kids about classic literature.\" \u003cb\u003e— Chris Wilson, The Graphic Classroom\u003c\/b\u003e (a resource for teachers and librarians)Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth. \u003ci\u003eThe Christmas Books\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in a single volume in 1852, bringing together five stories, which Charles Dickens had written especially for the Christmas season, beginning in 1843 with \u003ci\u003eA Christmas Carol.\u003c\/i\u003e Over the next three years, Dickens published \u003ci\u003eThe Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of Life\u003c\/i\u003e. There was no story in 1847 but a fifth, \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Man\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1848.","brand":"Campfire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303852036325,"sku":"NP9789380028570","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9789380028569_62477896-c17d-447a-9741-58dfd2d6307b.jpg?v=1730755561","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/campfire-graphic-novelsisbn-9789380028570","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}