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Gulliver's Travels (Puffin Classics) by Jonathan Swift
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics
In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver meets some extraordinary people and remarkable creatures. From a race of miniature folk to some surprisingly gentle giants and wise horses, Gulliver sees society from many different perspectives. Back in E ...Show more
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics
HeidiBy Johanna Spyrithat the little body presented a shapeless appearance, as, with its small feet shod in thick, nailed mountain-shoes, it slowly and laboriously plodded its way up in the heat. The two must have left the valley a good hour's walk behind them, when they came to the hamlet known as Dorf ...Show more
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
James has lived with his two beastly aunts ever since the day his parents were eaten up outside London Zoo by an angry escaped rhinoceros. Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are really horrible people. They make James do all the hard work and make his life a misery. Then something very peculiar happens.
Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Another triumph for Paterson, "Jip" tells a "historically accurate story (that's) full of revelations and surprises" ("Publisher's Weekly"). An abandoned boy turns to his only friend to help him make sense of his past, after a menacing stranger comes to town claiming to have been sent by his father.
Jungle Book (Puffin Classic) by Rudyard Kipling
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: From 8 to 99
The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the `Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought u ...Show more
Kidnapped (Puffin Classic) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
Set in the Scottish Highlands after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1945, orphaned David Balfour, tricked by his miserly uncle, survives attempted murder, kidnap and shipwreck and, in the company of Alan Breck, a champion of the Jacobite cause, escapes through the Highlands.
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"The legends of King Arthur - the most revered hero of British Mythology - have been retold many times, but Roger Lancelyn Green's version has become a classic since its first publication in 1953. Using as his sources not only Malory's MORTE D'ARTHUR but other chronicles, poems and romances, he has made ...Show more
Little Women (Puffin Designer Classic) by Louisa May Alcott
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
This classic edition of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring book is beautifully packaged for children today. "I want to do something splendid. something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what,but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someda ...Show more
Matilda (Modern Classics) by Roald Dahl
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Matilda's parents have called her some terrible things. The truth is, she's a genius and they're the stupid ones. Matilda is determined to get her own back and soon discovers she has a very special power.A classic from the most popular children's writer.
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Puffin Modern Classics) by Robert O'Brien
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9-11
They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret ...Time is running out for Mrs. Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in the unexpected form of a group of mysterious, super-int ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: From 8 to 99
Oliver Twist is an orphan who is born in a workhouse. After an unhappy apprenticeship, Oliver runs away to London where he falls in with thieves, headed by Fagin. He is rescued by Mr Brownlow but the gang kidnap him back. Oliver discovers the identity of his parents and the gang is exposed.
Oliver Twist (Puffin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Charles Dickens' classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London.After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving ...Show more