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Jack Holborn (Oxford Children's Classics) by Leon Garfield
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford Children's Classics
If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When orphan Jack stows away on the Charming Molly, he never guesses that he'll be sailing off on the adventure of a ...Show more
John Diamond by Leon Garfield
Category: Children's Classic Fiction
'My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a thief!' What is the matter with old Mr Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night. Only his son William knows the a terrible secret: his father betrayed his business partner Mr Diamond, ...Show more
Mr Corbett's Ghost by Leon Garfield
Category: Children's Classic Fiction
Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can't help but wish he were dead. So when a strange old man offers to make this wish come true, Benjamin finds it impossible to refuse. Sure enough, Mr Corbett meets an untimely death, but the tables turn on the terrified apprentice who fi ...Show more
Shakespeare Stories by Leon GARFIELD; William SHAKESPEARE
Category: Children's | Series: New York Review Books Children's Collection
How to introduce children to Shakespeare, not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of Shakespeare's language and the depth of his characters: That's the challenge that Leon Garfield, no slouch as a wordsmith himself, sets out to meet in his monumental and utterly absorbing Shakespear ...Show more
Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield
Category: Children's
Contains twelve Shakespeare plays in narrative form. This book presents an introduction to Shakespeare for the young.
Smith by Leon Garfield
Category: Middle Readers | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. London street urchin Smith is 12 years old, and an experienced pick-poc ...Show more
Smith: The Story of a Pickpocket by Leon Garfield
Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Children's Collection
A Carnegie Medal Honor Book Twelve-year-old Smith is a denizen of the mean streets of eighteenth-century London, living hand to mouth by virtue of wit and pluck. One day he trails an old gentleman with a bulging pocket, deftly picks it, and as footsteps ring out from the alley by which he had planned to ...Show more