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A Dog So Small (Puffin Modern Classics) by Philippa Pearce
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful ...Show more
A Wrinkle in Time (Puffin Modern Classic) by Madeleine L'Engle
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as 'It'. How Charles, his sister Meg and friend Calvin find and free his father makes this a very special and exciting ...Show more
Bridge to Terabithia (Puffin Modern Classics) by Katherine Paterson
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9+
Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class. He's been practising all summer and he's sure he's going to win. But when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any of the girls in school, she also turns out to ...Show more
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
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
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
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.