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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
Contributor(s): Irving, Washington (Author)

ISBN: 080950250X ISBN-13: 9780809502509
Publisher: WLC

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2009
Annotation: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head."

Also includes "Rip Van Winkle."

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Fantasy - General
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)

Dewey: FIC

Age Level: 9-12

Grade Level: 4-7

Physical Information: 0.21" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.26 lbs) 86 pages

Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - New York

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 139724
Reading Level: 5.5 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 2.0

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