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Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics
HeidiBy Johanna Spyrithat the little body presented a shapeless appearance, as, with its small feet shod in thick, nailed mountain-shoes, it slowly and laboriously plodded its way up in the heat. The two must have left the valley a good hour's walk behind them, when they came to the hamlet known as Dorf ...Show more
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Category: Fiction | 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.
Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics
This is the fourth and last book about the March family. Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, there is now a college, built with a legacy from old Mr Lawrence. All Jo's original children are grown young men, scattered around the world, and graceful young women with high ambitions. But yo ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Puffin Classic) by Jules Verne
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics
Once an ancient book is opened by Professor Lidenbrock, his life is changed forever. An old piece of paper has tumbled from the book, a parchment that will lead them on the expedition to end all expeditions. So begins a voyage thousands of feet under the sea, as the pair embark on a terrifying journey t ...Show more
Jungle Book (Puffin Classic) by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Childrens | Series: Puffin Classics
The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the `Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought u ...Show more
Just So Stories (Puffin Classic) by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics
From the curiosity of the elephant's child, to the crab who played with the sea, from the ingenious invention of the alphabet, to how the rhinoceros got its wrinkled skin, these are stories of strange happenings in the High and Far-Off Times.
Kidnapped (Puffin Classic) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Childrens | Series: Puffin Classics
Set in the Scottish Highlands after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1945, orphaned David Balfour, tricked by his miserly uncle, survives attempted murder, kidnap and shipwreck and, in the company of Alan Breck, a champion of the Jacobite cause, escapes through the Highlands.
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
"The legends of King Arthur - the most revered hero of British Mythology - have been retold many times, but Roger Lancelyn Green's version has become a classic since its first publication in 1953. Using as his sources not only Malory's MORTE D'ARTHUR but other chronicles, poems and romances, he has made ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Children's | Series: Puffin Classics
Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon.
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics
This is the third book about the March family and their friends. With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March (now Jo Bhaer) couldn't be happier. But despite the warm and affectionate help of the whole March family, boys have a habit of gett ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
The good-natured March girls - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - manage to lead interesting lives despite their father's absence at war and the family's lack of money. Whether they're making plans for putting on a play or forming a secret society, their enthusiasm is infectious.
Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - together they are the March sisters. Their father is away at war and times are difficult, but the bond between the sisters is strong. The family may not have much money, but that doesn't stop them from creating their own fun. Through squabbles, happy times and sad, they discover ...Show more