Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories

English Mandarin (Chinese Simplified) bilingual children's book.

Freshly returned from his voyages Doctor Dolittle decides to expand his zoo to include a home for crossbred dogs and a club for rodents.

From the Newbery Medal Winning Author Of The Dark Frigate, The Mutineers is a tale of old days at Sea and of Adventures in the Far East.

The Dark Frigate is a Newbery Medal winner for the year’s most distinguished contribution to American literature for children, a swashbuckling tale of adventure and bravery on the high seas.

“All that I have written so far about Doctor Dolittle I heard long after it happened from those who had known him— indeed a great deal of the happenings in 'The Story of Doctor Dolittle' took place before I was born.

'Doctor Dolittle’s Circus' is the story we all know and love that was adapted into the wonderful Rex Harrison film.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel ‘Little Women’.

After Emily Star’s father died, making her an orphan, Emily was shipped off to New Moon Farm, owned by her mother’s snobbish relatives.

The Royal Book of Oz is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first by Ruth Plumly Thompson, to be written after L.

Kabumpo in Oz is the sixteenth Oz book, and the second written by Ruth Plumly Thompson.

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Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz is the thirty-third in the series of Oz books created by L.

This omnibus edition contains eight of the most loved children''s books of all time.

When young David moves into his new home, he decided that it would be more fun to go exploring the mountains around him, rather than unpack.

Gerald, James and Kathleen, discover an enchanted castle while exploring during the school holidays.

Beverley remembers his childhood days with his brother Felix and their many friends.

After failing to tempt him to their own vices, Santa is kidnapped from the Laughing Valley by the five Daemons of the Caves (Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred, Malice, and Repentance) on Christmas Eve.

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After an accidental fire, a new carpet is placed in the play room to replace the one that was destroyed.

Much of the novel is written from the view-point of his canine character, enabling London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans.

Nils is a young lad who likes nothing more than eating and sleeping.

Uncle Tom''s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

A story of the days when England and Spain struggled for the supremacy of the sea.

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

Here is the fourth book in the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn series.

A beautiful story about friendship, secrets, and the human spirit, The Secret Garden tells the story of the courage of two unhappy and withering children who become determined to make their lives, and the lives of others around them, more joyful.

Two friends and their chaperone travel through Europe and learn some valuable life lessons in this old-fashioned light comedy by one of America’s greatest children’s writers.

Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others'' honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem.

The Arthur of history was engaged in a life-long struggle with an enemy that threatened to rob his people of home, of country, and of freedom; in the stories, the king and his knights, like Richard Coeur-de-Lion, sought adventure for adventure''s sake, or, as in the case of Sir Peredur, took fantastic vows for the love of a lady.

Collected here are ten wonderful traditional Indian stories as told by Rabindranath Tagore.

The material for the Arthur stories came from many countries and from many different periods of history.

More than five hundred years ago there lived a diligent man called Sir Thomas Malory, who wrote in English words many of the beautiful Welsh tales about King Arthur''s Knights, that the people of Wales loved so well.

I believe that King Arthur was the most honorable, gentle Knight who ever lived in all the world.

Wherefore if it will please you to read that which is hereinafter set forth, you will be told of how Sir Launcelot slew the great Worm of Corbin; of the madness that afterward fell upon him, and of how a most noble, gentle, and beautiful lady, hight the Lady Elaine the Fair, lent him aid and succor at a time of utmost affliction to him, and so brought him back to health again.

While the childrens mother and father are out of the country the children are staying with the "old nurse" in her boarding house.

IN this volume there follows the fourth and last series of those histories relating to the life and to the kingship of Arthur, King of England.

For the happiness you have brought to them let me give to you the doll of all my dolls, the doll I loved most dearly.

There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose-jointed, looking me squarely in the face in a straightforward, honest manner, a twinkle where her shoe-button eyes reflect the electric light.

In this delightful tale an unnamed boy discovers that there is a dragon living in the downs above his house.

The Princess and Curdie are back in this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin.

The Princess and the Goblin is beloved children''s classic written by George MacDonald.

Lyman Frank Baum penned fourteen novels in his famous Oz chronology.

The Odyssey is literature''s grandest evocation of everyman''s journey though life.

The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time.