It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged that Heidi should return to the mountains. Together she and her friend Peter, the goat-herd, achieve wondrous changes in the community in which they live.
Ben-Hur is better known as a film than as a novel. Cinematic in scope and narrative, it was nevertheless as a book that it first met huge popular success on its publication in 1880. Intended as a moral and inspirational narrative, Judah Ben-Hur's life parallels that of Jesus as he makes a journey of discovery and enlightenment through the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem through Nazareth to t…
Help Leo the Lion find all the answers to his questions and meet his friends along the way in this delightful Jungle Story Book!
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and he become 'show pupil' - a litlle princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances.
Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stori…
There are new additions at Malory Towers boarding school in Cornwall. And one of them is a girl called Zerelda who is all the way from the USA. It's not just the girls who will face challenges this year, though. Bill's horse, Thunder, suffers from colic and Darrell must work with Bill to stop him lying down!
Ghost Stories Of Henry James by Henry James. With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. This edition includes…
In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is inside his own short stories! When the twins and their friends enter worlds crafted from Conner's imagination, finding allies no one else could have ever dreamed of, the race begins to put an end to the Masked Man's reign of terror. Can the twins fin…
Project Exodus - a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to AD 54 to overthrow the Roman Empire - has gone catastrophically wrong. Half arrived seventeen years earlier, during the rign to Caligula.