The Bastable children, which some readers may remember from "The Treasure Seekers," are sent to stay in the countryside. The children (and Pincher the dog) have every intention...

From award-winning and bestselling author Kwame Alexander comes Solo, the story of seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison who is being crushed between scathing tabloids exposing his...

'Fantasy lovers will enjoy this tale of family, conflict, and finding out where in the world one might truly belong. Adventurers will also enjoy following redheaded Siria's...

The "Just So Stories for Little Children" is among Kipling's best known and loved work. The stories focus on different animals, and how they got their distinctive features. You...

Going into Society by Charles Dickens. A hilarious Dickens story, with his masterly story-within-a-story format, about a sideshow and the various characters who inhabit it -...

Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain. First published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck,...

A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790.The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the house of Mazzini,...

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock. Published in 1818, Peacock’s novella Nightmare Abbey is a gentle satire of the then-popular gothic movement in literature. He pokes...

This is the book that introduces Mary-Dorothy and her sister, 'bad girl' Biddy. Mary and Biddy meet Jen and Joy and are taken under their wings - which is to say, the...

When zombies are entranced by a wicked wizard, nothing will ever be the same…When a courageous human girl named Alex who always does the right thing wakes up, things have...