Classic Children's Literature

A very small bear found by Mr. and Mrs. Brown at Paddington station becomes one of the family.

Meg, Charles Wallace, and next-door neighbor Calvin go into space and through time to rescue Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while working on a secret project. The children's intergalactic search leads them to a confrontation with the forces of evil on the planet Camazotz, where conformity means survival.

The adventures of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huck Finn, in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century, as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.

It's the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters -- Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie. Follow along as they search for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front parlor, or explore the basement warehouse of Papa's peddler's shop on rainy days. The five girls enjoy doing everything together, especially when it involves holidays and surprises. But no one could have prepared them for the biggest surprise of all!

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Beezus' biggest problem was her 4-year-old sister Ramona. Even though Beezus knew sisters were supposed to love each other, with a sister like Ramona, it seemed impossible.

After Betsy Ray moves into the house across the street from Tacy Kelly, the five-year-olds become inseparable friends. The Betsy Tacy series is classic juvenile fiction.

A horse tells the story of his life in nineteenth-century England, and his treatment under many different masters, from a kind country squire to all kinds of drivers when he was let out for hire.

Charlie and five others draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world.

You've heard of too much of a good thing? You've never heard of it the way it happens to Henry Green. Henry's a chocolate maven, first class. No, that's too mild. Henry's absolutely freaky over chocolate, loco over cocoa. He can't get enough, until--aarrrfh! Brown spots, brown bumps all over Henry!

Having carefully planned how and to where they will run away, Claudia and her little brother, James (and his money), board a bus, head to New York City, and go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There they hide in washrooms, sleep on ancient beds, and get involved in solving an exciting mystery.

Four children looking forward to an ordinary summer enjoy a series of fantastic adventures by double-wishing on an ancient coin.

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.

Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.

<p>In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.</p>

Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.

The story of a young Boston apprentice and the events leading up to the Revolutionary War.

Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack.

An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.

From the moment he is given a penguin as a pet, Mr. popper's life starts changing. Her converts his basement into an ice rink, finds a friend for his lonely bird, and suddenly has twelve penguins to feed instead of one.

Through his intense devotion to the colt, Flicka, a young boy, living on a Wyoming ranch, begins to learn about responsibility and gain a better understanding of his brusque father.

<p>A fourteen-year-old English girl wins a horse in a raffle, trains it, and rides it in the Grand National steeplechase.</p>

The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up

When orphaned eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.

Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.

The adventures of Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim, as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft toward freedom, meeting along the way an entertaining assortment of characters, challenging adventures, and danger.

Taran, the assistant pig-keeper, longs to be a hero. He begins his journey with a strange assortment of companions on a dangerous mission to save his beloved land, Prydain.

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. Determined to make it on their own, they set out to find a safe place to live. They discover an old, red boxcar that provides shelter from a storm. Against all odds, they make it into their home--and become The Boxcar Children. Any of the books in this series are a great choice!

When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.

<p>An eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.</p>

On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.

A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies.

<p>In 1913 in the Midwest a quartet of characters share adventures from exploding steamboats to &quot;exorcizing&quot; a ghost.</p>

<p>In a small town in turn-of-the-century Utah, a precocious boy hatches scheme after scheme to gain prestige and money.</p>

A family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.

Presents the adventures of Mowgli, the "man-cub," abandoned as a baby by his parents and raised by the wolves in the wilds of the jungle.

An enchanting fable that teaches the secret of what is really important in life.

<p>Tony dislikes spending the summer on his aunt&#39;s farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den.</p>

Two enterprising mice rescue a Norwegian poet from the dungeon of the Black Castle.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming.

Professor Sherman leaves San Francisco in one hot air balloon and three weeks later is found in the Atlantic Ocean, clinging to the remains of twenty balloons and refusing to tell how he got there.

Based on legends about the founding of Hungary, this stirring story begins with Nimrod receiving a prophesy from God. He tells his people to follow the White Stag and Nimrod's sons to the west. During their long and dangerous journey, the people move valiantly westward until the birth of Attila, who one day leads them heroically into what becomes Hungary.

A mystery man inspires two boys to build a space ship which takes them to the planet of Basidium to help the Mushroom people.

A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School."

Boy in Southern U.S.A. mountains trains two hunting dogs, who defend him to the death from danger.