Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

Tom Sawyer and his friends play truant from school and set off for an island near their home town. Here they decide to play pirates but their game is interrupted when they witness a murder. Tom has to grow up very quickly and do the right thing.

Marsha and her parents live on the edge of the dark forest. Once a week they go to town to market. When Masha spots a box of paints, she begs her parents to buy it for her. Soon she becomes an expert painter of eggs.

The monstrous Medusa shows off her oh-so stinky snake-hair in this epically gross Greek myth retelling! Will Medusa tame her wretched mane or is her do's wretched stench set in stone? With wacky illustrations and descriptions at the end of how the story links to the original myth, this series wil...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce the...

With an invisible girl, a parliament of owls and a pen that writes by itself, the journey to the garden of the Midnight Swan might be Seren's most dangerous adventure yet. Seren and Tomos must try to help the Crow find the way back to his human form. But why is Captain Jones enquiring about Seren...

To save her mother from Olga's evil clutches, Filomena must travel to the legendary land of Camelot to find the legendary sword Excalibur. But Camelot is not all that it seems. Fil and the crew quickly realize that another fairy tale has taken hold in the land of Arthurian Legend - the Wizard of ...

When Captain Shang is mortally wounded in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily. With the help of Shangs great lion guardian ShiShi, Mulan must find Shangs spirit and lea...

Elisa hates being a princess, and would much rather live in the woods with Hans, a prince from a rival kingdom. But when her father, the king, discovers her love for Hans, he locks Elisa in a gloomy tower. Elisa is too brave and too clever to stay blocked up. She escapes, dodges capture and final...

Little Red Riding Hood - who is not-so-little anymore! - is riding her pony through the woods to visit Granny for a picnic and a surprise. Now that she is bigger, she feels much braver than the last time she went. Until - what was that? Was it the Big Bad Wolf?

Little Red Riding Hood - who is not-so-little anymore! - is riding her pony through the woods to visit Granny for a picnic and a surprise. Now that she is bigger, she feels much braver than the last time she went. Until - what was that? Was it the Big Bad Wolf?