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Mark Twain created one of America's best-loved fictional characters in Huckleberry Finn. Recounting the exploits of the imaginative adolescent as he and the runaway slave, Jim, raft down the Mississippi River, Twain ultimately addresses far deeper themes - man's inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values.

This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their...

With the help of a legendary character, one lonesome stranger learns to stand up to racism in the old West.

"One day, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, get swept away by a powerful cyclone and find themselves in the Land of Oz. The only way she can return home is by going to the Emerald City to ask the famous Wizard of Oz for his help. As she travels along the yellow brick road, Dorothy makes the acquaintance of some of the curious inhabitants of the Land of Oz."--

"Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear."--

Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.

When her brother Harry returns from the New World with tales of adventure, 17 year-old Elisabeth is determined to see America for herself. Can she, and her faithful companion Mouse, stow away on a boat and survive the perilous voyage?

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