Allan Quatermain, gentleman adventurer, is retained to locate a missing man by two Englishmen. The man, brother of one of the Englishmen, has disappeared into the heart of Africa while on a hunt for the lost mines of King Solomon. Joi...

A young girl learns she's half mermaid and plunges into a scheme to reunite with her father in this entrancing, satisfying tale that beckons readers far below the waves.For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap h...

Making reading fun…in English and Spanish! Each little pig is confident that his house is the strongest. But the real question is, whose will survive the big bad wol...

This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original cl...

A few English months and many Narnian years separate this follow-up to THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, the previous installment in the classic children's fantasy series the Chronicles of Narnia. The much-reformed Eustace Scrubb and a ...

Who needs a ladder when you've got a giraffe with an extending neck? The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company certainly doesn't. They don't need a pail, either, because they have a pelican with a bucket-sized beak. With a monkey to d...

One of the most highly respected fantasy novels ever written, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE can be seen as both an exciting children’s adventure story and an allegory about faith. The story begins when the Pevensie sibli...

In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father's death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel. He joins an outlaw band and leads a dangerous life o...

First published in 1877, “Black Beauty” is Anna Sewell’s classic tale of a horse living in 19th century England. Having been injured in early childhood, Anna Sewell would have difficulty walking for most of her life. As such she...

A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of the evergreen classic novel by Louisa May Alcott. With their father away in the American Civil War, the March sisters are facing a lean Christmas with their mother. As the years go by...

Timeless Classics--designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classic novels will grab a student's attention from the first page. Audiobook for each title is paced for student...

Blessed with--or doomed to--eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tu...

After her Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone to a strange land, young Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, join the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and cowardly Lion on an unforgettable journey to the Emerald City, where lives the allpowerful...

Dorothy and her little dog Toto befriend the Tinman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion as they travel down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. Maureen Lipman cackles splendidly as the Wicked Witch of the West in this acclaim...

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. In this, the third book, Tolly and his grandmoth...

Join Clifford in this brand-new storybook as he spends the day with Emily Elizabeth in kindergarten!Emily Elizabeth is starting Kindergarten and she's a little nervous. Good thing that the teacher sent a note home that says each child...

Book by Charlotte Bronte

Heathcliff, an orphan, is raised by Mr. Earnshaw as one of his own children. Hindley, Mr. Earnshaw?s son, despises him, but his sister, wild Cathy, becomes Heathcliff?s constant companion, and he falls violently in love with her. When...

Young Sara Crewe grew up in a well-to-do household, but she suddenly finds herself impoverished when her father, Captain Crewe, dies penniless in India. Sara is forced to abandon her life of privilege for a life of bare existence at M...

Following Sterling\'s spectacularly successful launch of its children\'s classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series:Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts...

KATY AND THE BIG SNOW BURTON

Nothing's more magical than going down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass with Alice. There, in worlds unlike any other ever created, conventional logic is turned upside down and wrong-way round to enchanting effect. Childr...

The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this...

Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles (england)

Six of Charles Dicken's greatest novels specially retold for children, with sumptuous illustrations.

Knight's Castle

When wishing for magic, it's hard not to wish for too much.     If Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha had stopped to think—oh, if they had only stopped to think!—they would have ordered magic by the ...

The great events of Revolutionary Boston as seen through the shrewd eyes of an observant fourteen-year-old boy.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. ""The richly expressive prose of Kenneth Grahame continues to delight the reader with unexpected word choices and fertile descriptive passages. {Illustrations} bring to life the medieval village ...

No child should be allowed to grow up without reading The Jungle Books. Published in 1894 and 1895, the stories crackle with as much life and intensity as ever. Rudyard Kipling pours fuel on childhood fantasies with his tales of Mowgl...