Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill.

After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.

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...

The incorrigible Brown children, who devour nannies, nurse-maids, and governesses, finally meet their match.

When Waggit is abandoned by his owner as a puppy, he meets a pack of wild dogs who become his friends and teach him to survive in the city park, but when he has a chance to go home with a kind woman who wants to adopt him, he takes it.

Lottie Pumpkin never expected to become a royal during her first year at Rosewood Hall. But now that she and secret princess Ellie Wolfe's fates have been inextricably entwined by the dramatic events of the last school year, they're both just hoping for a peaceful return to Rosewood. The ivy-covered walls of Rosewood tend to hold secrets, though -- and when students start being targeted by members of the mysterious undercover society Leviathan, Lottie...

When twelve-year-old Joy's pet frog gets away, she, her brother, and their elusive friend Poppy sneak onto the grounds of the town's asylum and discover mysteries that only reinforce Joy's beliefs that there are supernatural forces at work in the town of Spooking.

Three boys set out on a secret mission to penetrate the City of the Tripods and learn more about these strange beings that rule the earth.

Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.