Adult Classics

"The Children's Golden Library " : He picked up a clear pine shingle that lay in moon light, took a little fragment of red keel out of his pocket, ...

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...

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

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...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane find the Psammead, a magical sand fairy, in a pet shop in London, they have no idea that they are about to emba...

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

"Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it." Transcending time and place, Anna Sewell's m...

“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...

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...

Twelve year old Darrell Rivers is travelling by train to her new boarding school - Malory Towers - for her first year. She quickly befriends severa...

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...

We're the rubbish kids, losers and orphans. Everyday we go out on to the Tip to sort rubbish for Mother Shelly.'For Sham, Fly Pie and his sister Ja...

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...