This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the hea...
A baker's son, who dreams of becoming a riding master at Vienna's Spanish Court Riding School, is admitted as an apprentice and achieves his desire under the tutelage of both two-legged and four-legged masters.
For well over thirty years, Eric P. Kelly's Newbery Award winner has brought the color and romance of ancient times to young readers. Today, The Trumpeter of Krakow is an absorbing and dramatic as when it was first published in 1928. There was something about the Great Tarnov Crystal...Wise men spoke of it in hushed tones. Others were ready to kill for it. Now a murderous Tartar chief is bent on possessing it. But young Joseph Charnetski was bound by an ancient oath to protect the jewel at all c...
A young Welsh soldier fights along the Western Front during World War I, experiencing the horrors of trench warfare before participating in the famed Christmas Truce of 1914.
Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns (WWI Centenary Series)
by Halsey Davidson
The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory (WWI Centenary Series)
by Margaret Vandercook
Saint George for England (Classics) (Works of G. A. Henty (Hardcover))
by G A Henty
About the Author- George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 - 16 November 1902), was a prolific English novelist and a special correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883) and In Freedom's Cause (1885). -Wikipedia Excerpt - CHAPTER I : A WAYFARER It was a bitterly cold night in the month of November, 1330. The rain was pouring heavily, w...
The Bishop and the Song
by Halvard Husefest Lunde and Lisa Myklebust
Proud of her unusual history, a nameless orphan faces with spirit the unbearable conditions of an early twentieth-century English orphanage.
Based on the animated motion picture of the same name, this lavishly illustrated read-aloud version of "Anastasia" tells the story of a Russian orphan girl who discovers that she has been a princess all along. Full color.
A toy version of Pooka squeaks every time readers press and squeeze him in this read-along, die-cut board book about the adventures of Anastasia's little dog in Paris. Full color.
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
A funny and moving story of life during the First World War, told through the eyes of schoolboy Archie Albright.When 10-year-old Archie Albright is given a scrapbook for his birthday in April 1914, he thinks he'll fill it with comics, souveniers and funny stories about his family. But then, on 3 August 1914, war breaks out, and his life changes for ever. Archie tells the story of the First World War from his point of view, filling his scrapbook with anecdotes about life in London's East End, new...
David and the Mighty Eighth
by Marjorie Hodgson Parker and Marjorie Parker
Ages 9 to 12 years. Based on a true story, this historical fiction recounts a young British boy's adventures and the forging of a friendship with an American pilot and his crew. The friendly airmen with the United States' Eighth Air Force, "The Mighty Eighth" give the boy hope when Hitler's Nazis seem unstoppable. This coming-of-age account teaches that despite the horrors of war, something good can be created from the worst of times and confirms the importance of faith, family, and freedom, an...
Lives of Kings (Seven Wanderers Trilogy, #2)
by Lucy Leiderman
Gwen must reunite her fellow reincarnated magical guardians and save the world from three magicians threatening to bring on the apocalypse. Book Two in the Seven Wanderers Trilogy. After discovering she led a past life full of magic in Britannia thousands of years ago, Gwen must race against time to stop an ancient enemy who threatens to tear the world apart. Gwen may have won the battle to save her own magic, but she is still reeling from memories of her past life and dangers to her present...
Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.