Classic Starts: A Best-Loved Library

Classic Starts: A Best-Loved Library
Author: Sterling Publishing Company
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781402794889

From Wonderland to a special secret garden, these tales are magical! For the first time, five of our most popular "Classic Starts" titles are available in paperback, packaged and shrink-wrapped in a beautifully designed, sturdy slipcase. Each all-time favorite novel is expertly abridged for easy reading and filled with all the enchantment that made the original story so beloved. Included are: "Alice""in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass," " Black Beauty, A Little Princess, Little Women," and "The Secret Garden."

Anne of Avonlea

Anne of Avonlea
Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 8026882008

Anne Shirley starts her first term teaching at the Avonlea School, although she still continues her own studies at home. She now takes her place among the "important" and "grown up" people of Avonlea society, as its only schoolteacher. Anne is also a founding member of the Avonlea Village Improvement Society which tries to improve the Avonlea landscape.

Classic Starts®: the Secret Garden

Classic Starts®: the Secret Garden
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Union Square Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2023-01-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781454945390

When the newly orphaned Mary Lennox leaves her native India and arrives at her uncle's mansion in Yorkshire, everything seems strange to her. Then Mary hears of a mysterious, neglected garden. With the help of some new friends, she plans to uncover its secrets . . . and make it blossom once again.

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds
Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781402736889

An abridged version of H. G. Wells' classic science fiction tale in which, as life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the Earth.

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1541547926

The courageous musketeers—Athos, D'Artagnan, Aramis, and Porthos—return to sword fighting in the final installment of the D'Artagnan Romances. When Aramis visits the Bastille, an infamous French prison, he meets a mysterious man who wears an iron mask and claims to be the King of France's secret twin brother. While France suffers under King Louis XIV's rule, Aramis initiates an elaborate plan to free the prisoner and overthrow the corrupt king with the masked man's help. Will the musketeers survive their most daring adventure yet, filled with nefarious politics, deceitful royals, and clashing loyalties? This is an unabridged English translation of French author Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling historical novel, which was first published in serial form between 1847 and 1850.

Dracula

Dracula
Author: Tania Zamorsky
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781402736902

Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

White Fang

White Fang
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781402725005

An abridged version of the adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with man.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan
Author: Francesca Rossi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9788854408630

Classic Starts®: the Adventures of Robin Hood

Classic Starts®: the Adventures of Robin Hood
Author: Howard Pyle
Publisher: Union Square Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2022-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781454945345

Enter Sherwood Forest with the fabled Robin Hood and his band of merry men, and meet such unforgettable characters as Friar Tuck, Little John, Allan a Dale, the infamous Sheriff of Nottingham, and wicked King Richard. Every moment of the story is filled with action and excitement.