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The Diary of a Killer Cat (Puffin Modern Classics) by Anne Fine
Category: Junior Fiction | 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: Biography | 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 Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin Spinebreaker Classics
This title includes thirteen stories of horror, suspense and the supernatural. "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Black Cat" are just three of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous tales in this chilling collection.
The Family from One End Street (Puffin Modern Classics) by Eve Garnett
Category: Children's | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
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 Great Gatsby: V&A Collector's Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
This beautiful hardback edition is a special Puffin Classic created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum, and has a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but beneath ...Show more
The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
The family of Barney's dead mother is aware that there is something special about this particular boy. As he resigns himself to being haunted again, his sister and brother set out to discover the reason behind his supernatural attraction. This book won the Carnegie Medal.
The Jungle Book (Green Puffin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Children's | Series: Green Puffin Classics Ser.
The classic story of friendship between man and beast. Young Mowgli escapes the vicious jaws of the growling tiger Shere Khan, and is adopted by Father Wolf. As he grows up, Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle, and so his extraordinary adventures begin . . . The ad ...Show more
The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll (Young Puffin Modern Classics) by Edward Ardizzone
Category: unmapped | 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 Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle; Ian Newsham (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a ...Show more
The Outsiders (Puffin Modern Classics) by S. E. Hinton
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
The Outsiders by S E Hinton is a ground-breaking, timeless story by a brilliant writer. '...the hand at the back of my neck was strong. I'm drowning, I thought ...' The Socs' idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like Ponyboy. Ponyboy knows what to expect and knows he can count on his brothe ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics
Kino is a Mexican pearl fisher in the Gulf of California. When he and his wife, Juana, have a baby, their joy is complete ... until the infant is bitten by a scorpion. Kino finds a great pearl worth a fortune, but it brings only tragedy and evil to his family.
The Phoenix and the Carpet by H. R. (ILT) Edith; Millar Nesbit
Category: Classic | Series: Puffin Classics