Children's / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

Based on the classic story by Johanna Spyri. Heidi loves living in the mountains with her grandfather and her friend Peter, and is homesick when she moves to Frankfurt. Will she make it back to her beloved mountains?

The sequel to 'Just as Long as We're Together'. Rachel is the perfect child in a perfect family. She's super-intelligent, a gifted musician and actress, and she's set for a glowing future. But it's not easy being a 'child prodigy', as her snide older brother, Charles, like to call her.

Max is a hedgehog who lives with his family in a nice little home, but it's on the wrong side of the road from the park where there's a beautiful lily pond and plenty of juicy slugs, worms, and snails! The busy road is dangerous but Max is determined to make his way across. If humans can do it, w...

Nobody knows what lies inside the Knoll nor what form the Fae have taken after all these years. When Hazel Quince ventured into Goblyn Wood, she discovered that she was part-fairy and that the Fae have been hoarding magic. Now, on a mission for the rebels to prove this, and rescue her friend Pete...

'Penguin Readers' is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the eight levels follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help r...

An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes mystery - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages! Also includes a QR code for the free audiobook! No Baskerville should ever cross the moor at night. With a deadly phantom hound on the loose and a mysterious m...

A gripping mystery thriller - set in wartime Cornwall - in which four children uncover a plot to depose a king and install a dictator in a small (fictional) country. Action and adventure abound!

When Summer and her foster family are having lunch one day, a hole appears in the middle of the living room. That hole leads to a dragon and the promise of three wishes, granted by a very unusual witch. Summer wishes for popularity and plenty of money, and things are looking up - until she realiz...

George and his father live next door to a family who have a very soppy dog. One night, George chases an escaped Midnight into the garden and they both fall into a fountain, magically lit by moonlight. Suddenly, the two have swapped places: George is now a dog, and Midnight is a ten year old boy! ...

Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ineffectual step-mother and her vain but beloved sister Rose. When two visiting Americans arrive, all of their lives are turned upside down, and Cassandr...