Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of itschildren's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes adazzling new series: Classic Starts . The stories areabridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats theworld's beloved tales (and children) with the respect theydeserve--all at an incomparable price. The discovery of a neglected garden transforms the life of a sullenand unloved little girl-and everyone around her, too. When thenewly orphaned Mary Lennox leaves her native India and arrives ather uncle's mansion in Yorkshire, everything seems strange to her.Then Mary hears of a mysterious garden where no one has set foot in10 years. With the help of some new friends, she plans to uncoverits secrets...and make it blossom once again.
Hurrah! It's holiday time, and the Famous Five are spendingit at Billycock Hill. Most exciting of all, they've made a newfriend - a real pilot! But now he has disappeared, with top secretequipment ...The Five are puzzled, and concerned, too. Could theirnew friend by a spy - a traitor! Whatever his motives are, the gangfeel duty-bound to investigate ...These classic editions featureEnid Blyton's unchanged text and Eileen A. Soper's originalillustrations.
The Two Towers' is the second part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings'. This paperback edition has the classic black cover featuring Tolkien's own design and includes the definitive edition of the text. The Company of the Ring is sundered. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go...JRR Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. Tolkien created a vast new mythology in an invented world which has proved timeless in its appeal. Part of a set of three paperbacks, this popular edition is once again available in its classic black livery designed by Tolkien himself.
Jack's little sister, Susie, is so annoying! The Secret Sevenare furious when they discover she's formed her own "detectivegang"! Then some money is stolen, and Susie is a chief suspect. TheSeven can't quite believe it - Susie wouldn't do anything thatbad...would she?
An unusual hex sign leads Nancy Drew to Pennsylvania Dutchcountry in pursuit of a thief who stops at nothing to get rid ofher.
A little magic can take you a long way. After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life there is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends—Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, and more. With a snip of the stem, the peach starts rolling away, and the great adventure begins!
While trying to locate a missing dancer who is about to gaina large inheritance, Nancy Drew finds a clue leading to thesolution of yet another mystery.
A brass-bound trunk mistakenly delivered to Nancy's cabin on aNew York-bound ocean liner becomes the first clue leading her tosuspect that international jewel thieves are aboard.
Nancy and her friends find they have to overcome people'ssuperstitions and fears in solving the case of a "jinxed" andthreatened bird farm.
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. Watership Down by Richard Adams has become one of the most famous animals adventures ever written. In this epic story, a young rabbit called Fiver senses that something terrible is about to happen to the warren - he is sure of it. Fiver's sixth sense is never wrong according to his brother, Hazel. They had to leave immediately, and they had to persuade the other rabbits to join them. And so begins a long and perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home. Fiver's vision finally leads them to Watership Down, but here they face their most difficult challenge of all . . . Richard Adams grew up in Berkshire, the son of a country doctor. After an education at Oxford, he spent six years in the army and then went into the Civil Servic
