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13+ years
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten....
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13+ years
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and...
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11-13 years
Anne of Green Gables
'I suppose you are Mr. Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables?' she said in a peculiarly clear, sweet voice. 'I'm very glad to see you. I was...
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11-13 years
Treasure Island
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow — a...
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8-10 years
The Wind in the Willows
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. Spring was moving in the air above and in the...
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8-10 years
The Jungle Book
It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself,...
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8-10 years
The Secret Garden
It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless...
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5-7 years
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife....
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5-7 years
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were — Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. They lived with their...
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5-7 years
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped...
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The Hobbit
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole... it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
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