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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
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
It has been a while since Folks lived in the Big House, and an even longer time has passed since there has been a garden at the House. All the animals of the Hill are very excited about the new Folks moving in, and they wonder how things are going to change. It's only a matter of time before the animals ...Show more
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor and David Kearney (illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here'. The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming ...Show more
Smith by Kenny McKendry
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Young Smith was a pickpocket - a very accomplished one. But one day his pick-pocketing was to lead him into a sinister and dangerous web of murder, intrigue and betrayal.
Stig of the Dump (Puffin Modern Classics) by Clive King
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
Clive King's "Stig of the Dump" is a much-loved modern classic. "Stig of the Dump" is 50 years old and the story of Barney and his best friend, cave-man Stig, is as fresh today as it was when first published. Barney is a solitary little boy, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the ...Show more
The Borrowers (Puffin Modern Classics) by Mary Norton
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9-11
The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They own nothing, borrow everything, and think that human beings were invented just to do the dirty work. Arrietty's father, Pod, was an expert Borrower. He could scale c ...Show more
The Diary of a Killer Cat (Puffin Modern Classics) by Anne Fine
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Poor Ellie is horrified when Tuffy drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. But Tuffy can't understand what all the fuss is about. Who on earth will be the next victim to arrive through the cat-flap? Can soft-hearted Ellie manage to get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ways before he ends ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler; Harry Brockway
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more
The Family from One End Street (Puffin Modern Classics) by Eve Garnett
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9-12
This is the story of everyday life in the big, happy Ruggles family who live in the small town of Otwell. Father is a dustman and Mother a washerwoman. Then there's all the children - practical Lily Rose, clever Kate, mischievous twins James and John, followed by Jo, who loves films, little Peg and fina ...Show more
The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll (Young Puffin Modern Classics) by Edward Ardizzone
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
There was once a tiny doll who belonged to a girl who did not care for dolls. One day when the little girl was shopping in the supermarket with her mother, she threw the tiny doll into a deep freeze. So the tiny doll had to stay there, cold and lonely, and frightened by people shuffling all the food rou ...Show more
The Sheep-pig by Dick King-Smith
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9+
Farmer Hoggett thinks the piglet he wins at the fair is just one to be fattened up for the freezer until his old sheepdog, Fly, takes Babe under her wing and starts to train him to be a sheepdog too. Babe's methods are unconventional but successful and he wins the Grand Challenge Trials by being polite ...Show more