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20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Classic Starts® PB) by Jules Verne; Lisa Church (Abridged by); Arthur Pober (Afterword by)
Category: Children's | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Explore the mysterious underwater world in this illustrated chapter-book retelling of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, part of the bestselling Classic Starts(R) series that has sold more than 8 million copies! Professor Aronnax embarks on an underwater exploration, only to be captured by Captain ...Show more
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Children's Classic) by Chris Sasaki (Abridged by); Lucy Corvino (Illustrator); Arthur Conan Doyle; Arthur Pober (Afterword by)
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they de ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Classic Starts) by Lewis Carroll
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Age range 6 to 9 Nothing's more magical than going down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass with Alice. There, in worlds unlike any other ever created, conventional logic is turned upside down and wrong-way round to enchanting effect. Children will love reading Carroll's many humourous nonsens ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables (Classic Starts) by Montgomery, L.
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Now every child can celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery's ever-popular story First introduced in Anne of Green Gables as a young orphan, Montgomery's feisty and imaginative heroine is now 16 years old and embarking on a new adventure: becoming a teacher in her old Avonlea school. It' ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Days (Classic Starts®) by Jules Verne
Category: Children's | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Verne’s most outrageous voyage extraordinaire - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen’s club wager! Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout, sometime wanderi ...Show more
Call of the Wild (Classic Starts®) by Jack London; Oliver Ho (Abridged by); Karl James Mountford (Illustrator); Arthur Pober (Afterword by)
Category: Children's | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
During the gold rush, Buck is snatched away from his peaceful home and brought to the harsh and bitter Yukon to become a sled dog. Will he adapt to life as a member of a sled pack? Or will his newly awakened instincts lead him to search for the freedom he has never known?
Classic Starts: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Deanna McFadden (Abridged by); Karl James Mountford (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, set during the Civil War, has always captivated even the most reluctant readers. Follow the adventures of the four March sisters--Meg, Beth, Amy, and, most of all, the tomboy Jo--as they experience the joys and disappointments, tragedies and triumphs, of growing up. ...Show more
Classic Starts®: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll; Eva Mason (Abridged by)
Category: Children's | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Have a tea party in Wonderland with this abridged retelling of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, part of the bestselling Classic Starts(R) series that has sold more than 8 million copies! "Life, what is it but a dream?" In Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls down a rabbit hole to find ...Show more
Classic Starts®: Heidi by Johanna Spyri; Lisa Church (Abridged by); Karl James Mountford (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
When Heidi, an orphan, goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, no one can imagine the solitary old man caring for a child. But the two grow to love each other, and Heidi blossoms in her new home. Johanna Spyri's charming story--and spirited heroine--have won hearts for more than a century. ...Show more
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Classic Starts) by Diane Namm (Abridged by); Dan Andreasen (Illustrator); Margaret Sidney; Arthur Pober (Afterword by)
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
"To help mother": that was the goal of each and every one of the five Pepper children. Yet even as "Mamsie" struggles hard to feed and educate her brood, she still manages to fill the house with joy. The adventures of this poor but loving family--Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and the adored youngest, Phron ...Show more
Heidi (Classic Starts) by Johanna Spyri
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Age range 6 to 9 When Heidi's Aunt Dete brings the orphaned girl to live with her grandfather, no one can imagine the bitter, solitary old man caring for a child. To everyone's surprise, the two grow to love each other - and Heidi blossoms in her new home. Classic Starts is a gorgeously produced, though ...Show more