• Alcott, Louisa May. LITTLE WOMEN (1868)
  Story of the family life of the author and her sisters as they grow up in a busy New England household.

• Austen, Jane. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813)
  In the middle-class English household, Mrs. Bennett is on a shameless "husband hunt" for each of her five daughters.

• Barrie, J.M. PETER PAN (1906)
  John, Wendy and Michael join Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, and Tinkerbell in this classic story of adventure.

• Baum, L. Frank. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1900)
  Whisked from Kansas to the magical land of OZ, Dorothy Gale meets a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodsman, and a Cowardly Lion, and they all set off to find the Wizard.

• Blackmore, R.D. LORNA DOONE (1869)
  The romance and adventures of a Scottish nobleman’s daughter and the English yeoman who rescued her from kidnappers.

• Bronte, Charlotte. JANE EYRE (1847)
  Jane becomes governess for the children of the strange, moody Mr. Rochester, and then falls in love with him.

• Bronte, Emily. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1848)
  Heathcliff, a waif from the streets of Liverpool, England, becomes a disruptive catalyst in the Earnshaw family’s lonely moorland estate.

• Buck, Pearl. THE GOOD EARTH (1931)
  Flood, drought, pestilence, and revolution are interwoven into the story of a virtuous Chinese pleasant and his wife.

• Burnett, Frances Hodgson. THE SECRET GARDEN (1911)
  Mary, a self-centered girl, and Colin, a pampered invalid boy, learn compassion and generosity within the walls of an abandoned garden.

• Burroughs, Edgar Rice. TARZAN OF THE APES
  Tarzan, raised by a fierce she-ape of the tribe of Kerchak, learned the secrets of the wild, and became Lord of the jungle. When men enter the jungle bringing lust, greed and a white woman, Tarzan must choose between two worlds.

• Carroll, Lewis. ALICE’S ADVENTURE IN WONDERLAND (1865)
  Alice follows a rabbit down a rabbit hole and comes face to face with adventure and strange characters.

• Collodi, Carlo. PINOCCHIO (1881)
  In Gepetto’s hand a piece of wood that talks becomes a living mischievous marionette and eventually becomes a real boy.

• Colum, Padraic (editor). THE ARABIAN NIGHTS (1200-1500)
  A collection of ancient mid-Eastern tales, including "Sinbad the Sailor" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." Told by an Arabic woman to delay her execution.

• Cooper, James Finmore. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1826)
  Natty Bumppo is the central heroic figure in the "Leather-stocking Tales." In this second novel of the series, he and his Indian friend Uncas try to save the two daughters of a British commander during the French and Indian War.

• Crane, Stephen. THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (1895)
  Portrays a young soldier’s fear at the Civil War battle of Chancellorsville.

• DeFoe, Daniel. ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719)
  A young seaman is cast ashore on an uninhabited tropical island for more than 28 years.

• Dickens, Charles. DAVID COPPERFIELD (1850)
  Traces the life of a mistreated boy who overcomes many obstacles to find literary success and marital happiness.

• Dickens, Charles. GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1861)
  When Pip receives sudden wealth from an unknown benefactor, he forsakes his friends in order to become a London gentleman.

• Dickens, Charles. OLIVER TWIST (1838)
  Tale of an apprenticed orphan who escapes to London where he is captured by thieves and forced into a life of treachery. 

• Dickens, Charles. A CHRISTMAS CAROL
  A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

• Dickens, Charles. A TALE OF TWO CITIES
  Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.   

• Dodge, Mary Mapes. HANS BRINKER or THE SILVER SKATES (1865)
  A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals – finding the doctor who can restore their father’s memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.

• Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1891)
  The brilliant but eccentric detective solves tough cases which even Scotland Yard cannot handle.

• Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLE (1902)
  Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson set out to solve the mystery that has haunted the Baskerville family for years.

• Dumas, Alexandre. THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1844)
  During a turbulent time in French history, three adventurers support a French nobleman with their amazing exploits and narrow escapes.

• duMaurier, Daphne. REBECCA (1938)
  The new Mrs. deWinter must contend with the haunting memory of Rebecca, the sinister maid, Mrs. Danvers, and her brooding husband. This is a classic gothic novel.

• Grahame, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS (1851)
  Mole and Badger love their friend Toad until he becomes involved in crime, in this classic animal fantasy of the English countryside.

• Hemingway, Ernest. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1952)
  An old fisherman catches a giant marlin and struggles to bring it ashore.

• Hilton, James. LOST HORIZON (1933)
  The classic fantasy about a peaceful hidden valley in Tibet where people do not grow old.

• Hugo, Victor. THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. (1831)
  A romance from medieval times in which a deformed bell ringer of the Paris cathedral defends the woman Esmeralda.

• Hugo, Victor. LES MISERABLES (THE MISERABLE ONES) (1862)
  A panoramic view of French society centered around the character Valjean, a peasant victimized by circumstances.

• Kipling, Rudyard. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (1897)
  The story of a spoiled boy who is washed overboard from an ocean liner, picked up by a fishing trawler, and forced to work for his keep.

• Kipling, Rudyard. THE JUNGLE BOOKS (1895)
  A collection of animal stories set in India, featuring the life of Mowgli, a boy who was brought up as a wolf cub.

• Lofting, Hugh. VOYAGES OF DR. DOLITTLE (1922)
  Tommy Stubbins and the doctor roam the world, learning about animals and their languages.

• London, Jack. CALL OF THE WILD (1903)
  Rugged outdoor story of the sled dog, Buck, who was badly mistreated until rescued by his beloved master John Thornton.

• Melville, Herman. MOBY DICK (1851)
  An American epic tale about a captain of a whaleship and his obsession to catch the whale named Moby Dick.

• Mitchell, Margaret. GONE WITH THE WIND (1936)
  A classic Civil War novel in which Scarlett O’Hara, a willful "Southern belle," tries to defy the devastation of the South and the men who want to control her.

• Montgomery, L.M. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
  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.

• Orczy, Baroness. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1905)
  An English nobleman pretends to be a sissy to rescue French royalty from terrorists during the Revolution.

• Orwell, George. 1984 (1949)
  Depicts life in a totalitarian regime in the year of 1984.

• Orwell, George. ANIMAL FARM (1946)
  A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

• Pyle, Howard. THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1833)
  A cycle of English legends about a popular English outlaw who lived in Sherwood Forest and protected the downtrodden.

• Pyle, Howard. STORY OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS
  Retells the adventures of King Arthur and the knights of his Round Table.

• Rawling, Marjorie. THE YEARLING (1938)
  The classic story of a boy and a fawn growing up together in the backwoods of Florida.

• Salton, Felix. BAMBI
  Describes the life of a deer in the forest as he grows into a beautiful stag.

• Sewell, Anna. BLACK BEAUTY (1877)
  An imaginary autobiography of a horse that led an interesting life with a series of good and bad owners.

• Shelly, Mary Wollstonecraft. FRANKENSTEIN
  Victor Frankenstein has discovered the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and has created a monster being by using this terrible power.

• Spyri, Johanna. HEIDI (1880)
  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.

• Steinbeck, John. THE PEARL (1947)
  A tragic story about the disaster that a giant pearl brings to a simple man and his family.

• Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE BLACK ARROW (1888)
  During the War of the Roses, Richard Shelton’s crossbow and stout heart are pitted against the ambitious and wily Sir Daniel.

• Stevenson, Robert Louis, KIDNAPPED (1886)
  The story of young David Balfour, an orphan, whose miserly uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and schemes to have him kidnapped, shanghaied, and sold into slavery.

• Stevenson, Robert Louis. STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1886)
  A physician preoccupied with problems of good and evil creates a drug that transforms him into two distinct personalities.

• Stevenson, Robert Louis. TREASURE ISLAND (1883)
  Jim Hawkins learns of a buried treasure from an old sailor and sets off to find it with two friends and a mutinous ship’s crew.

• Stoker, Bram. DRACULA (1897)
  Having deduced the double identity of Count Dracula, a wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN (1852)
  A pre-Civil War book condemning slavery that centers upon the trials and human dignity of an old black slave.

• Swift, Jonathan. GULLIVER’S TRAVEL (1726)
  Written in the form of a journal, the story traces the journeys of Lemuel Gulliver to four mythical lands, and makes fun of mankind’s stupidity.

• Tolkein, John R.R. THE HOBBIT (1938)
  The gentle hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, pursues the dragon’s stolen treasure in this adventure-packed fantasy of  "Middle Earth."

• Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.) ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (1876)
  Tom and his friend Huck Finn accidentally witness a murder, run away to a river island, and are assumed dead by the townspeople.          

• Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.) A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT (1889)
  Satirical spoof taking an American backward in time to the England of Galahad.

• Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.) THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (1881)
  Tale of a royal prince and a poor street boy, identical in appearance, who change places accidentally.

• Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.) THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1885)
  Huck escapes from his father who had imprisoned him in a lonely cabin. He meets Jim, a runaway slave.

• Verne, Jules. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (1873)
  The hero Phileas Fogg undertakes a hasty world tour with his loyal French valet Passépartout to win a bet made at his London club.

• Verne, Jules. JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1956)
  Professor Von Hardwigg and his nephew descend into a mountain crater and begin their adventure.

• Verne, Jules.20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (192-?)
  An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

• Wells, H.G. THE TIME MACHINE (1963)
  A time traveller who voyages into the future finds that the world has been divided into two races.

• Wells, H.G. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1900)
  An intellectually superior race invades the Earth.

• White, T.H. ONCE AND FUTURE KING (1979)
  Tells the story of the youth and reign of King Arthur, the establishment of the Round Table, and the search for the Holy Grail.

• Wyss, Johann. THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (1813)
  A Swiss clergyman, his wife and four sons are shipwrecked on a desert island.

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