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    Book 1
    Book 1

    Anne of the Island

    The third book in the Anne Shirley series. Anne leaves childhood behind as she moves from Green Gables to attend Richmo... More

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    Book 2
    Book 2

    Anne of Green Gables

    'Oh, it seems so wonderful that I'm going to live with you and belong to you. I've never belonged to anybody - not reall... More

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    Book 4
    Book 4

    Oliver Twist

    Charles Dickens' classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London.After Oliver Twist asks nas... More

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    Book 5
    Book 5

    Good Wives

    'Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom'With four lively, attractive women in one house and a dashi... More

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    Book 6
    Book 6

    Tales of the Greek Heroes

    Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.Heracles hauling the triple-headed dog C... More

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    Book 7
    Book 7

    Heidi

    Heidi is a girl who has been raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents. Ho... More

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    Book 8
    Book 8

    The Wizard of Oz

    This is THE WIZARD OF OZ - but not as you know it. ... More

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    Book 9
    Book 9

    King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

    Puffin Pixels is a new collection of classics featuring pixelated, 8-bit cover artwork. For older readers nostalgic for ... More

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    Book 10
    Book 10

    Treasure Island

    One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treas ure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, m... More

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    Book 11
    Book 11

    Anne of Ingleside

    The sixth book in the Anne Shirley series. 'It's been lovely to be Anne of Green Gables again for a week, but it's a hu... More

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    Book 12
    Book 12

    Anne of Windy Willows

    The fourth book in the Anne Shirley series. 'Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you' Anne Shirley and G... More

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    Book 13
    Book 13

    Anne's House of Dreams

    Anne's House of Dreams is the fifth novel about Anne Shirley, the red-haired girl from Green Gables. Life seems perfect... More

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    Book 14
    Book 14

    Peter Pan

    J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan is a thrilling adventure for all ages - the story of the boy who refuses to grow up is ... More

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    Book 14
    Book 14

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    Robin Hood steals from the rich to give to the poor, cleverly evading the Sheriff of Nottingham with the help of his fri... More

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    Book 15
    Book 15

    Tales from Shakespeare

    Marcia Williams retells fourteen of Shakespeare's best-loved plays in her trademark witty, accessible style. Mu... More

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    Book 16
    Book 16

    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

    Lewis Carroll's timeless classic, introduced by Chris Riddell.You never know where you'll find yourself in Alice's Adven... More

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    Book 17
    Book 17

    Pinocchio

    The perfect gift for all ages, Pinocchio as you’ve never seen him before: telling his own story through the master story... More

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    Book 18
    Book 18

    Just So Stories

    This popular series of readers has now been completely revised and updated, using a new syllabus and new word structure ... More

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    Book 19
    Book 19

    White Fang: Illustrated by Ian Beck

    Part wolf, part dog, White Fang learns to survive in the freezing wilderness. As well as being forced to confront the ha... More

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    Book 20
    Book 20

    A Tale of Two Cities

    Fast-moving and accessible, each story in this series is a shortened version of the classic novel, which loses none of t... More

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    Book 21
    Book 21

    The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes

    Through the foggy streets of Victorian London to the deepest countryside, Sherlock Holmes uses his unique powers of dedu... More

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    Book 23
    Book 23

    Grimms' Fairy Tales

    From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting... More

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    Book 24
    Book 24

    Daddy Long Legs

    Children's Book of the Week in The Sunday Times , The Times and The Observer . Meet a determined da... More

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    Book 27
    Book 27

    The Tale of Troy

    There was once a time, when the tall towers of Troy reached gleaming into the sky, and its proud king fought against an ... More

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    Book 28
    Book 28

    The Odyssey

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    Book 29
    Book 29

    Five Children and It

    When five siblings - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother, the Lamb - discover a sand-fairy in their grave... More

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    Book 30
    Book 30

    Around the World in Eighty Days

    In Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the world ... More

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    Book 31
    Book 31

    Gulliver's Travels

    In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver meets some extraordin... More

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    Book 32
    Book 32

    Pollyanna

    THE COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED TEXT'Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you k... More

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    Book 33
    Book 33

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

    The fifth adventure in the spellbinding Harry Potter saga – the series that changed the world of books forever Dark tim... More

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    Book 34
    Book 34

    The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    From the strange case of 'The Red-Headed League' to the extraordinary tale of 'The Engineer's Thumb', Sherlock Holmes an... More

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    Book 35
    Book 35

    The Phoenix and the Carpet

    When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fi reworks, their parents re... More

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    Book 37
    Book 37

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when ... More

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    Book 38
    Book 38

    Myths of the Norsemen

    Puffin Classics bring the very best children's stories to a new generation. Roger Lancelyn Green's time-honoured collect... More

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    Book 39
    Book 39

    The Happy Prince and Other Stories

    A haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, in which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) The Happy Prince who w... More

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    Book 40
    Book 40

    The Jungle Book

    Puffin Classics - the world's favourite stories - relaunched with exciting new covers.The Jungle Book is a classic story... More

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    Book 41
    Book 41

    The Secret Garden: V&A Collector's Edition

    The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a magical novel for adults and children alike. This new hardback is one ... More

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    Book 42
    Book 42

    The Coral Island

    When three boys find themselves shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, they must learn to survive in a sometimes beautif... More

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    Book 43
    Book 43

    The Children of the New Forest

    This story is of life in the New Forest, where four children live in hiding, disguised as a forester's grandchildren, af... More

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    Book 44
    Book 44

    Tom Brown's Schooldays

    The idea for Tom Brown's Schooldays came one day when Thomas Hughes was wondering what to say to his son, aged 8, before... More

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    Book 46
    Book 46

    Rip Van Winkle

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    Book 47
    Book 47

    The Lost Prince

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    Book 48
    Book 48

    Rose in Bloom

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    Book 49
    Book 49

    Myths of the Norsemen

    Retells the surviving myths of the Norsemen in one continuous narrative. The great stories of the yawning void, Ymir, fa... More

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    Book 51
    Book 51

    The Scarlet Pimpernel

    The exotically named Baroness Orczy was the daughter of a Hungarian aristocrat who came to London at the age of fifteen.... More

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    Book 52
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    Book 53
    Book 53

    THE Princess and Curdie

    The Princess and Curdie is the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. Following on from 'The Prince... More

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    Book 54
    Book 54

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    Mysterious, mythic, fabulous -- this diverse collection of fifteen poems is a wonderful introduction to the world of nar... More

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    Book 55
    Book 55

    Complete Fairy Tales

    From "Cinderella" to "Sleeping Beauty, " "Little Red Riding Hood, " "Puss in Boots" and more, the fairy tales of Charles... More

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    Book 56
    Book 56

    A Girl of the Limberlost

    Elnora is determined to go to high school, but her first day there is a disaster. For solace, Elnora goes to the Limberl... More

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    Book 57
    Book 57

    What Katy Did

    Scholastic Children's Books are proud to publish this beautiful edition of the classic tale, What Katy D... More

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    Book 58
    Book 58

    The Lost World

    The classic fantasy adventure of a lost prehistoric world. Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and th... More

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    Book 59
    Book 59

    Great Expectations

    One of the world's greatest writers is introduced to a new audience through this accessible retelling with lively illust... More

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    Book 60
    Book 60

    The Great Gatsby: V&A Collector's Edition

    With a a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book, this beautiful hardback edition is a... More

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    Book 61
    Book 61

    The Complete Alice: V&A Collector's Edition

    With a a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book, this beautiful hardback edition is a... More

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    Book 62
    Book 62

    Emma: V&A Collector's Edition

    With a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book, this beautiful hardback edition is a s... More

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    Book 63
    Book 63

    Charlotte's Web

    A gorgeous full-colour large format edition of Charlotte's Web, one of the best-loved animal stories of our time.The unf... More

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    Book 64
    Book 64

    The Jungle Book

    Hear the best stories ever written with Puffin Classics Audiobooks The unabridged, downloadable audiobook editi... More

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    Book 65
    Book 65

    Greyfriars Bobby

    The famous classic Scottish tale based on the true story of a dog's lifetime devotion to his master, first published in ... More

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    Book 66
    Book 66

    Tales of Ancient Egypt

    Michael Rosen, Professor of Children's Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, and bestselling author, poet and ... More

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    Book 67
    Book 67

    A Christmas Carol

    This classic seasonal tale of self-discovery has become one of Charles Dickens's most famous and best-loved works. On ... More

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    Book 68
    Book 68

    Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

    Chris Riddell's brilliant full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuous hardback and jacketed ... More

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    Book 69
    Book 69

    Kidnapped

    Scholastic Children's Books are proud to publish this beautiful edition of the classic tale, Kidnapped. ... More

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    Book 70
    Book 70

    Black Beauty

    "Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it." Tran... More

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    Book 71
    Book 71

    Little Women

    'Timeless' HELEN MOORE, DAILY EXPRESS'I try to get every girly girl to read this one because those four sisters are so r... More

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    Book 72
    Book 72

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    The classic tale of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi in the nineteenth century. Mark Twain's classic The... More

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    Book 73
    Book 73

    The Wind in the Willows

    'There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.' From picnics by t... More

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    Book 74
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    Book 75
    Book 75

    Wuthering Heights

    Rollercoasters are popular with boys, girls and mixed-ability classes. Valued for their durable and accessible format, t... More

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    Book 77
    Book 77

    Robinson Crusoe

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    Book 78
    Book 78

    Peter Pan in Scarlet

    Neverland is calling again...Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out-strangely real dreams, of pirates a... More

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    Book 79
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    Book 80
    Book 80

    Jo's Boys

    'Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn... More

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    Book 81
    Book 81

    Little Men

    'The best boys - in the literary sense - that we have ever come across' SPECTATOR 'Little Women was widely read, but its... More

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    Book 82
    Book 82

    Pride and Prejudice

    The Penguin English Library Edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and ... More

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    Book 84
    Book 84

    Aesop's Fables

    Sixty of the most famous of Aesop's Fables have been updated and rewritten by the talented anthologist Fiona Waters, and... More

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    Book 86
    Book 86

    Frankenstein: GCSE 9-1 Set Text Student Edition

    Exam board: AQA, Edexcel; Edexcel Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature; A Level English Literature First teachin... More

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    Book 87
    Book 87

    Dracula

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