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Twins cause trouble in this classic Shakespeare comedy! With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Appearance in Twefth Night. The tales h...

The girls are in a higher form now. This year there is the tension of exams for the first time, but there is all the fun of the summer term as well...

Tracy Beaker is back and she?s just desperate for a role in her school play,?A Christmas Carol?and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepress...

Games, lessons, quarrels and tricks all form part of a lively term, but the biggest event of all is the Fifth Form pantomime, written, acted and pr...

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and was instantly successful. In the United States, it...

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wo...

This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Ol...

From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of...

In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Crac...

Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set...

When Miley is invited to a sneak preview of a hot new movie, she's sure that her dad won't mind a bit. He can't say no, right? Wrong! It's exam tim...

There was a miller whose only inheritance to his three sons was his mill, his donkey, and his cat. The eldest took the mill, the second the donkey,...

Here the classic tales of hans christian anderson the brothers grimmand perrult are carefully retold for today's child with fresh lively illustrati...

Here the classic tales of hans christian anderson the brothers grimmand perrult are carefully retold for today's child with fresh lively illustrati...

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels...

This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two bo...

Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books. Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the fa...

Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the p...

They seek him here , they seek him there those frenchmen seek him everywhere . Iis he im heaven ? Is he in hell ? That dammed elusive pimpernel .

The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for grownups, for anyone captivated by the world of...

Set in the Scottish Highlands after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, orphaned David Balfour, tricked by his miserly uncle, survives attempted murder...

All Chloe ever dreams of is becoming a pop star. It's not just that she wants to be famous, she wants to share her talent. When she gets an auditio...

Cynthia Moon is an average working girl until the editor of her magazine assigns her an article on precocious children. Then she meets Philip, aged...

Welcome to the Island of Struay, home of one of the best-loved characters in children's books and as seen on TV - Katie Morag McColl! Discover some...