The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss. This children's book was intended by the writer as a lesson for his sons about family values, good husbandry and self...

Heidi
Johanna Spyri. Heidi has been raised by her Aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents. Dete brings 5...

The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book is an anthology of related stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stories in the book are fables, using ani...

The Call of the Wild
Jack London. Buck, a shepherd dog, lives a comfortable life as the pampered pet of Judge Miller. One day, Manuel, the Judge's gard...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain. A mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid, in the Mississippi River town...

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist is born into a life of poverty, initially in a baby farm, then in a workhouse in an unnamed town. This i...

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott . Meg is the oldest teenage in her family and is considered the beauty of the March household. Meg runs the household w...

Five Children and It
Edith Nesbit. The novel starts when a party of youngsters relocate from London to rural Kent. While messing around in a gravel pit,...

Black Beauty
Edith Nesbit. The tale is told by a horse named Black Beauty-beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll. A young girl, Alice, is filled with tedium while tarrying on the riverbank with her sister, when she notices a talkin...

A Little Princess
Frances Eliza Burnett . Sara Crewe is a very polite and creative young girl. Born to a wealthy officer in India, Sara was sent to London in V...

What Katy Did
Susan Coolidge. Young Katy Carr and her five brothers and sisters live with her widowed father in a small midwestern town in the U.S....

Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson. The tale opens in a coastal village in south-west England. Jim Hawkins, is the young son of the owners of the Admiral...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum. Dorothy is a pretty young orphan raised by her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in the bleak landscape of a Kansas farm. She h...

The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents. She is unwanted by her mother and father, and taken care of ...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe. This mystery tale surrounds the baffling double murder of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter in the Rue Morgue, a str...

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins. Rachel Verinder, a beautiful young Englishwoman, inherits a massive diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legac...

The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins. Walter Hartright, a young teacher of art, is walking from Hampstead to London. On his trip he encounters a fey woman ...

The Widow Lerouge
Emile Gaboriau. Monsieur Lecog is one of the first French detectives, and in this, his initial adventure, he must investigate the dis...

The Rome Express
Arthur Griffiths. A mysterious murder on a flying express train, a wily Italian, a charming woman caught in the meshes of circumstantia...