Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

Fifteen-year-old Morag Narmo really doesn't want to go to school any more.

It s 1938.

Bolt your doors!

BEFORE THE MAN BECAME THE LEGEND.

When Rose meets Elmer she's humming a tune, a tune she just can't get out of her head.

Two bored gorillas decide to play a game of dares.

Discover the magic of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty in this picture book, retold and stunningly illustrated by Ruth Brown for the very youngest of horse lovers.

Mr Wuffles ignores all the toys people buy for him.

'Big snowflakes fluttered slowly through the air like white feathers and made all of Heavenly Valley smooth and white and quiet and beautiful' So here we are on Christmas Eve, locked up in rotten Mrs Monday's boarding house with no presents and no Christmas dinner, while all the other children have gone home for the holidays.

'My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a thief!

A colourful illustrated children's picture book prequel to the worldwide bestseller A Street Cat Named Bob and The World According to Bob perfect for very young fans.

In 1847, an orphaned baby is rescued as the sole survivor of a massacre in a Polish village.

Two boys, Lewis and Richard, travel to paris in 1789 for very different reasons, and find their ideals challenged in the events of the French Revolution and the September massacre.

'When you take out the heart of gold, you must put something back in its place.

In a cave on the wild side of St James's Park live two ragged children; young Nick and his nine-year-old sister Jubilee.

'Him what's born on the chime .

Secrets whispered up a chimney, a golden locket with a broken chain, murder in the streets of London and suddenly young Barnacle is plunged into a terrifying mystery.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Charles Dickens final novel, and remained unfinished at the time of his death.

The Confidence Man follows 14-year-old Hans Ruppert and a band of Protestants as they leave their home town and seek peace and freedom from Persecution in the New World.

Eastward in Clerkenwell lies the Mulberry Pleasure Garden: six acres of leafy walks, colonnades and pavillions.

One stormy December night some time in the eighteenth century, a coach came thundering down the long hill outside of Dorking on its usual journey into London.

A bargain of a lifetime - seven years off the end of his life in exchange for a fortune now!

Across the continents of the ancient world wandered the Storyteller, enchanting all who heard him with his wondrous tales of the gods.

Set in the streets of London, the story follows the hopes and aspirations of young Tim and his pet monkey, Pistol, as they use their wits to get money out of rich folk.

On the night that Piggot s Comet will appear over Brighton, the town plan to honour it with music and dancing.

Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city's apprentices.

Harris and Bostock are best friends, but they are as different from one another as night and day.

Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can't help but wish he were dead.

'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching .

Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen retells some of the most famous Greek myths in this classic of children's literature.

Rosemary's Sutcliff's absorbing collection of stories cover the fall of Londinium to the building of Hadrian's Wall, and the final departure of the Romans from Britain.

When the alien Tripod machines land on Earth, they don't seem much of a threat.

The final battle for the Earth has begun, as the human resistance strikes back against their alien Tripod masters.

Will Parker and his friends have escaped the mind-controlling alien Tripods, and found sanctuary in the White Mountains - but when an opportunity arises for them to infiltrate a Tripod city, they realise they have a chance to strike back against the invaders.

Nobody knows how long it has been since the Tripods came.

Ten-year-old orphan Maria lives in her ancestors' crumbling mansion, with warm-hearted Cook and the eccentric Professor as her only friends.

A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book and a ukulele.

Jestyn the Englishman had once been Thormod the Viking's slave, but after saving Thormod's life he became his shoulder to shoulder man and sworn brother in the deadly blood feud to avenge Thormod's murdered father, a feud that would take them all the way to Constantinople.

Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.

It is seventeenth-century Scotland, and the Covenanters those wanting religious freedom from the dictates of English rule are gathering strength.

For Alice, danger threatens from inside the library as well as out.

Old Readers are supposed to live for ever, magically inhabiting the spaces between stories.

Late one night Alice Creighton hears her father having an argument with a fairy a snarling, bald beast with warts and needle-like teeth.

Little boy, little boy, what is the matter?

For every day of the year Eleanor Farjeon provides a scrap of fun or fancy, poetry or nonsense, fact or fable.

AAnthony grew up in the loveliest place in the world - his father called it the Eye of the Earth.

Every time he went out for his daily walk, Derry had to pass the corner where old Jim sat on his orange box.

This is the story of the twenty-six children of Zeal Monachorum who did not know their ABC, until one day Perkin the Pedlar came by.

Wandering minstrel, Martin Pippin, encounters a lovelorn ploughman who begs him to release his beloved by entertaining the six young women sworn to guard her.

More than anything, Ella wants to go to the ball at the Royal Palace.