By: Beverly Cleary
Genuinely funny books for children are few and far between. So, when a story like Henry Huggins comes along, it comes to stay. Children everywhere see themselves in this irresistible boy's adventures.During an unforgettable year that begins...
By: Focus on the Family
Part of the classic children's fantasy series the Chronicles of Narnia, PRINCE CASPIAN takes place about a year after the events of THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. Susan’s magic horn whisks Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy off an English...
By: L. Frank Baum
This is a delightful story of a patchwork doll who, after being brought to life by a magician, must find a way to break a spell that has turned two victims to marble. Familiar Oz characters and new creatures join in whimsical adventures, a must for...
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Young Cedric Errol lives in poverty in New York with his mother. When his father, who was disinherited for marrying an American, dies, Cedric is summoned to his grandfather's English estate. While the crotchety old Earl planned to transform the boy...
By: Kenneth Grahame
On the river bank, Mole meets the Water Rat, and stays with him in his snug waterside home where the river laps at the sill of his window. Here he meets Ratty's friends: Badger, who lives in the Wild Wood; Otter; and the incorrigible Toad of Toad...
By: Kenneth Grahame
A classic of magical fancy and enchanting wit, this children's tale follows the adventures of an intrepid quartet of heroes---Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and the incorrigible Toad.
By: Jack London
This gripping classic story follows the adventures of the loyal dog Buck, who is stolen from his comfortable family home and forced into the harsh life of an Alaskan sled dog.
By: Jack London
Part wolf and part dog, orphaned White Fang relies on his instincts as well as his inborn strength and courage to survive in the Yukon wilderness---despite both animal and human predators---and eventually comes to make his peace with man.
By: Edith Nesbit
Three children, forced to alter their comfortable lifestyle when their father is taken away by strangers, move with their mother to a simple cottage near a railway station where their days are filled with excitement and adventure.
By: Patricia MacLachlan
MacLachlan, author of Unclaimed Treasures, has written an affecting tale for children. In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two children--Anna and Caleb--advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she is homesick for Maine,...
By: Tamora Pierce
Disguised as a boy, Alanna of Trebond becomes a squire -- to none other than the prince of the realm. But Prince Jonathan is much more to Alanna; he is her ally, her best friend, and one of the few who knows that she's really a girl. Now it will take...
By: Mark Twain
Though TOM SAWYER, Twain’s "other' coming-of-age tale, has much in common with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, including some of the characters, its hero is not the maverick iconoclast that Huck Finn is. As Twain traces the comic adventures of the...
By: L. M. Boston
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back...
By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
This first sequel to Anne of Green Gables has our heroine beginning her new role as a full-fledged schoolma'am. Join Anne and her friends as they encounter accidents and adventures, scandal and romance, and at last, a wedding.
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
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By: Lewis Carroll
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By: Lloyd Alexander
Taran, The Assistant Pig-Keeper,' longs to be a hero. He begins his journey with a strange assortment of companions on a dangerous mission to save his beloved land, Prydain. Packed with action, humor, romance, and gallantry,...
By: C. S. Lewis
Deep underground, a web of evil magic holds a prince in captivity.Narnia ... where owls speak, where evil weaves a spell ... where sorcery enslaves the land.Narnia is in peril, and only Eustace and Jill can help. Along with...
By: Garth Nix
Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world...
By: Elizabeth Enright
The kids in the Melendy family decide to pool their money and form a club named I.S.A.A.C.--the Independent Saturday Afternoon Adventure Club. Each week, one of the siblings uses the money to travel alone into New York City and have a special...
By: Elizabeth George Speare
Young Miriam Willard finds herself a captive, caught up in the French and Indian War. She endures a harrowing march north to Montreal where, by a sudden twist of fortune, Miriam is introduced to a life of fashion and luxury, which compels her to...
By: L. Frank Baum
This is a delightful story of a patchwork doll who, after being brought to life by a magician, must find a way to break a spell that has turned two victims to marble. Familiar Oz characters and new creatures join in whimsical adventures, a must for...
By: Charles Dickens
The orphaned Pip is serving as a blackmith's apprentice when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
By: Esther Forbes
Johnny, a young apprentice, is caught up in the dramatic events involving the leaders of the American Revolution. As Johnny is forced into an adult role in the face of his new country's independence, he finds that relations with those he loves...
By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
This first sequel to Anne of Green Gables has our heroine beginning her new role as a full-fledged schoolma'am. Join Anne and her friends as they encounter accidents and adventures, scandal and romance, and at last, a wedding.
By: L. M. Boston
While eagerly following each stage of the new stone manor house his father is building to replace their old wooden Saxon hall, a young boy, part Saxon and part Norman, becomes involved with ancient magic that carries him through time.
By: Alan Garner
The heart of the magic was sealed with Firefrost, the Weirdstone of Brisingamen...should Nastrond destroy the stone, then the magic will die away. When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, the Wizard - Cadellin...
By: Will Hobbs
"We've got millions!" the prospectors roared to the throng at Seattles' docks. "The Klondike is the richest goldfield in the world!" Within moments, the telegraph is humming the news. Within hours, fifteen-year-old Jason...
By: Rudyard Kipling
One of the world's greatest storytellers weaves together an unforgettable collection of animal tales, including how the camel got its hump, how the leopard got its spots, and even how a butterfly stamping his leg can change a man's life.
By: Robert Newton Peck
Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story ofa Vermont boyhood that is...