The story of how ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Recounts the heroic and adventurous life of a thoroughbred collie that was particularly devoted to his owners.

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...

Frankenstein discovers how to give life to inanimate matter, and from dead flesh constructs a living being. His Monster possesses superhuman speed and strength, and learns human emotion by studying. But as his mind and thoughts develp, his loneliness and misery build. When the scientist refuses to create a companion for him, the Monster kills Frankenstein's wife and flees to the North Pole. Frankenstein follows, desperate to destroy his rampaging...

The Borrowers, a family of miniature people, journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood before finding a new home. Sequel to "The Borrowers Afield."

A retelling of the tale in which a kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter.

Sixteen-year-old Anne, mischievous and spirited as ever, returns to Avonlea to teach in the village school where she herself was taught.

Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.

A large-print version of the award-winning story of Phileas Fogg, who makes a bet that he can circle the globe in eighty days, but he is thwarted by Inspector Fix at every turn.