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Bugsy Malone (Essential Modern Classics) by Alan Parker
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Read the story behind the beloved film - now available in Essential Modern Classics. In Prohibition-era New York City, Fat Sam runs one of the most popular speakeasies in town - but his rival Dandy Dan is trying to shut him down. It'ÂÂs up to the baby-faced Bugsy Malone to save the day. Packed with th ...Show more
Elidor (Essential Modern Classics) by Alan Garner
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David, four Manchester children, are led into Elidor, a twilight world almost destroyed by fear and darkness. On a gloomy day in Manchester, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them into ...Show more
Feather Boy (Essential Modern Classics) by Nicky Singer
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Robert Nobel, the school pariah, triumphs over his own fears and the school bully, in this extraordinary tale of self-empowerment, legend and death. Robert is a boy who can do anything -- or so old Edith Sorrel at the nursing home tells him. Robert doesn't think so, knowing as he does that he is the sch ...Show more
Number the Stars: Collins Modern Classics by Lois Lowry
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Essential Modern Classics Ser.
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal, newly reissued in the Essential Modern Classics range. "They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them a ...Show more
Street Child (Essential Modern Classics) by Berlie Doherty
Category: Children's | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Read the story of Jim Jarvis, the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes. Now published into the Essential Modern Classics list. When his mother dies Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse, but quickly escapes chosing a hard life on the st ...Show more
The Giver : REMAINDER by LOWRY, LOIS
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Essential Modern Classics
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Category: Children's fantasy | Series: Essential Modern Classics
The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure. A timeless classic, this edition features Tolkien's maps as well as illustrations by David Wyatt. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the ...Show more
Tiger, Tiger (Essential Modern Classics) by Lynne Reid Banks
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Two tigers. One city. Two very different lives. A compelling story about friendship, brotherhood and battling against the odds. In Ancient Rome Caesar is almighty and his power is played out in the gladiatorial arena, where animals and men are baited, challenged and destroyed. Two tiger cubs have been k ...Show more
White Boots (Essential Modern Classics) by Noel Streatfeild
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Harriet must choose between her friend Lalla and her new-found love of ice-skating! "If you pass your inter-silver, I'll tell Aunt Claudia that I don't want to work with you any more." Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isn't much good at it, until she ...Show more
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