By Roald Dahl,
Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
A little magic can take you a long way.After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two...
By Mark Twain,
Guy Cardwell (Annotations), John Seelye (Introduction)
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written...
By Philip Pullman
Will is the bearer of the knife. Now, accompanied by angels, his task is to deliver that powerful, dangerous weapon to Lord Asriel - by the command...
By Sue Monk Kidd
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the...
By Stephen King
Just Another Lovers’ Triangle, Right? It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would...
By Dr. Seuss
For out-starting upstarts of all ages, here is a wonderfully wise and blessedly brief graduation speech from the one and only Dr. Seuss. In his...
By Arthur Conan Doyle,
Richard Lancelyn Green (Editor)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine in which they were first published,...
By Michael Chabon
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded...
By Anne Frank,
Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction), B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (Translator)
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder...
By Toni Morrison
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a...