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1) The jungle book

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Jungle Book
Books of wonder
Companion library
Puffin classics
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Language

English

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Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Juvenile Book, Playaway, Young Adult Book

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Selected stories from Kipling's two "Jungle Books" chronicle the adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle. Also includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi."

2) The Wizard of Oz

Author

Baum, L. Frank

Series

The Wizard of Oz series volume 1
Arcturus Children's Classics
Companion library
Puffin classics
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Language

English

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Book, Book - Ellinwood Grade School, eBook, Juvenile Book, Playaway, Young Adult Book

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After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz, Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion, who accompany her to the Emerald City to look for a wizard who can help Dorothy return home to Kansas.

3) Anne of Green Gables

Author

Montgomery, L. M

Series

Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Usborne illustrated originals
Classic Starts®
Tantor unabridged classics
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Language

English

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Book, Audiobook, Book - Ellinwood Grade School, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Juvenile Audiobook

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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm, and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

4) A girl of the Limberlost

Author

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Series

Limberlost
Puffin classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.

5) The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author

Twain, Mark

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Juvenile Book, Kindle, Large Print

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The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...

6) Heidi

Author

Spyri, Johanna

Series

Great books for children
A Golden classic
Heidi
Illustrated junior library
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Language

English

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Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Juvenile Book, Kindle

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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

7) Eight cousins, or, The aunt-hill

Author

Alcott, Louisa May

Series

Puffin classics
The Beacon Hill bookshelf

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins.

8) Treasure Island

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Language

English

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Book, Book - Ellinwood Grade School, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Juvenile Book, Juvenile Books, Large Print, Playaway, Young Adult Book

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Treasure Island is an adventure novel for young adults written by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was serialized in 1881 and 1882 and published in 1883. It is frequently dramatized in plays, television, and film, and has had an enormous influence on popular culture, particularly on public perceptions of pirate and sea-faring life. It is considered a coming-of-age tale and belongs to a genre of sea novels popular in the 19th century.

9) The call of the wild

Author

London, Jack

Series

Dover thrift editions
Great classics for children
Now age books
HRW library
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Language

English

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Book, Audiobook, Book - Ellinwood Grade School, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Juvenile Books, Playaway, Young Adult Book

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The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

10) White Fang

Author

London, Jack

Series

Graphic classics (Magic Wagon)
Classic literature with classical music
Scholastic classics
Adapted Junior Classic
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Language

English

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Book, Audiobook, Book - Ellinwood Grade School, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Juvenile Book, Kindle, Playaway, Young Adult Book

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Born in the howling storm, in the arctic famine, his brothers and sisters starve to death-but White Fang survives to join the world of the wild wolf, where cold and hunger favor the strong, and spare no pity for the weak. Deadly, harsh, but innocent, this is White Fang's universe....until he is captured.

11) The wind in the willows

Author

Grahame, Kenneth

Series

Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Signet Classic
Puffin classics
Aladdin classics
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Language

English

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Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Juvenile Book, Kindle

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One of the true classics of English literature, here are the adventures of Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and Toad. Grahame's idyllic world is as fresh now as when they first discovered his enchanting tales, of Ratty sculling his boat on the River, Badger grumpily entertaining his friends in his comfortable underground home, and the exasperating Toad being driven into one tangle after another by his obsession with motor cars.

12) Alice's adventures in Wonderland

Author

Carroll, Lewis

Series

Usborne illustrated originals
Puffin classics
Alice in Wonderland
Ghostwriter
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Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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This special edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless classic - complete and unabridged - is beautifully illustrated by Fran Parreño. Follow Alice's adventures as she disappears down a rabbit-hole and meets a cast of curious characters, including a White Rabbit, a Mad Hatter, and a grinning Cheshire Cat...

13) The twenty-one balloons

Author

Du Bois, William Pène

Series

Puffin modern classics
Puffin Newbery library

Language

English

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Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.

14) The secret garden

Author

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Series

Scholastic classics
Puffin classics
Aladdin classics
Treasury of illustred classics
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Language

English

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Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Juvenile Book

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

15) Little Lord Fauntleroy

Author

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Series

Puffin classics
Aladdin classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England, where he becomes heir to a title and a fortune.

16) Charlie and the chocolate factory

Author

Dahl, Roald

Series

Charlie
Puffin modern classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book - Ellinwood Grade School, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.