Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

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.

'Two Surface-dwellers.

On the contrary, my dear Watson, you can see everything.

Mush on!

I am Dracula.

'Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was'Have you ever enquired why the elephant has such an enormously elongated nose?

Traitor!

Once upon a time Once upon a time there was a book, and inside the book were princes who had been turned into frogs or ferocious beasts, princesses so beautiful they astonished the sun, faithful sweethearts and evil stepmothers, giants taller than mountains and a boy no bigger than your thumb, houses made of bread and cake and birds made of gold - in fact, all manner of mysterious, monstrous and magical things.

Barbecued billygoats!

Let fly jib sheet!

Charlotte is new, lonely and far from home.

Full of fantastical places like Kumdown Upwardz, Gadzooks and Urgburg-under-Ug, eccentric kings and queens, lessons in kindness, peace and even royal thriftiness, wrapped up in more than a smattering of nonsense, The Dribblesome Teapots brings together ten modern fairy tales to be enjoyed by generation after generation of young readers.

Wandering minstrel, Martin Pippin, encounters six little girls on his travels - who beg him to tell them stories.

Eureka's tears have flooded the earth and now Atlantis is rising, along with its evil king, Atlas.

Seventeen-year-old Eureka s life is taking on dark undercurrents that don t make sense .

Rebel.

How would you feel if you woke up and found another head growing out of your neck?

Michael, a young boy growing up on the tropical island of Rose Town, has been saving up for his own fishing boat for years.

Curl up with ultimate beloved Christmas classic!

'I would rather be with my grandfather on the Alp than anywhere on earth!

'For God's sake, hold on!

I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very hard for Sara Crewe to like her new life at boarding school.

'As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright'Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy have grown up together in Orchard House with their friend Laurie next door, and now it's time for them to go out and find their places in the big wide world, to do the great and marvellous things they've dreamed of and discover their 'castles in the air'.

Read this 19th-century childhood adventure story that confronts the reality of racism in America.