Children's / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but keeps at it so that she can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at the college for the blind. During school vacations Laura has fun with he...

Clarice Bean usually looks forward to Christmas. Except this year it is going to be a quiet-ish Christmas in her house, which doesn't feel right because Christmas is all about noisiness and being full up and family. And without those things, she is going to have to try very hard to stop the Chris...

The girls return for another term to find several new faces in their form. There is Zerelda, the American girl, Bill, short for Wilhelmina, who is mad about horses, and Mavis who has a remarkable voice and dreams of being an opera singer.

Thomas can't wait to see all the marvellous inventions at the fair! With a flying car, giant robot people and the fastest train in the world, the fair amazes all the people and engines of Sodor. But Thomas is worried he and the other steam engines will not be needed anymore. When thieves arrive a...

Thomas is excited to join Nia on safari in Kenya. But when he gets scared by the wild animals, Nia must teach him how useful they can be! Will Thomas be brave and make some new friends along the way?

When Thomas the Tank Engine sees a vintage plane flying over he is fascinated and follows it all the way to the airfield. There he meets many wonderful planes and learns all about the part they played in the war. Thomas wishes he could be a hero too. Then when one of the planes crash lands in a p...

The perfect first introduction to everyone's favourite engine - Thomas! Meet Sodor's number 1 engine and read about his jobs, his adventures and his friends.

Margaret is sure that one day she'll be a somebody, even though right now she's just a miserable nobody who's fallen foul of the cruel matron at the orphanage. She runs away, and fate soon takes a hand in the form of her friend's brother, Peter.

The murder of her father in a raid on his store means Davey's life can never be the same again. Even far away from home in New Mexico she's haunted by the horror of that night. Then, one day, she meets a mysterious young man called Wolf.

The ghost finds herself living with her family in the boarding school run by her parents. But which one of the four sisters is she? And why can't she remember any accident that might have led to her death?