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Carrie's War (Puffin Modern Classics) by Nina Bawden
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a si ...Show more
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Modern Classics by Roald Dahl
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: From 8 to 99
A new edition of this Roald Dahl title - a fabulous addition to the PUFFIN MODERN CLASSICS series. Puffin Modern Classics highlight the most successful and enduringly popular stories published for children in recent years.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Modern Classics) by Roald Dahl
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Charlie Bucket loves chocolate - and Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. It's the prize of a lifetime and all you have to do is find one of the five Golden Tickets. Charlie is the last lucky winner to join ...Show more
Dracula (Puffin Clothbound Classics) by Bram Stoker
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Jonathan Harker, a lawyer representing a London real estate agency, arrives at the Transylvanian castle of Count Dracula to sign a deal by which the count will purchase a London house. The details of his arrival by coach at the castle, his reception by the count, and his instructions regarding where Har ...Show more
Five Children and It (Puffin Classic) by E. Nesbit
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
"It" is a Psammead, an ancient, ugly, and irritable sand fairy the children find one day in a gravel pit. It grants them one wish a day, lasting until sunset. But they soon learn it is very hard to think of sensible wishes, and each one gets them into unexpected difficulties.
Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life, he has created a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets, foll ...Show more
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
The Alaskan wilderness is a lonely place for Mark Andersen, especially after the death of his older brother, Jamie. But in time Mark finds someone else to love--Ben, an Alaskan brown bear so huge that no one else dares come near him.
George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Young George mixes a medicine to make his nasty grandmother more likeable, and once she drinks it she grows to immense proportions. George's father wants the formula to breed a race of super-size livestock, but George can't duplicate the recipe. His fourth try is a potion that shrinks the drinker to not ...Show more
Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics
Good Wives is the second story about the March family. Three years on from Little Women, the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with their futures ahead of them. Although they all face painful trials along the way - from Meg's sad lesson in housekeeping to Laurie's disappointment in lo ...Show more
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: 2-12
Willie is evacuated to the country during World War II. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley, but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back to London.
Goodnight Mister Tom (Puffin Modern Classics) by Michelle Magorian
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley - but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London...This title is the winner of ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics HB) by George Cruikshank; Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics
From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. From classics such as 'The Frog-Prince' and 'Hansel and Grettel' to the ...Show more