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A Dog So Small (Puffin Modern Classics) by Philippa Pearce
$12.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fantasy | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful ...Show more
A Wrinkle in Time (Puffin Modern Classic) by Madeleine L'Engle
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Category: Young Reader | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as 'It'. How Charles, his sister Meg and friend Calvin find and free his father makes this a very special and exciting ...Show more
Bridge to Terabithia (Puffin Modern Classics) by Katherine Paterson
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Category: Children's Books | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9+
Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class. He's been practising all summer and he's sure he's going to win. But when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any of the girls in school, she also turns out to ...Show more
Carrie's War (Puffin Modern Classics) by Nina Bawden
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Category: Young Reader | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a si ...Show more
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Modern Classics by Roald Dahl
$18.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: From 8 to 99
A new edition of this Roald Dahl title - a fabulous addition to the PUFFIN MODERN CLASSICS series. Puffin Modern Classics highlight the most successful and enduringly popular stories published for children in recent years.
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
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Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: 2-12
Willie is evacuated to the country during World War II. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley, but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back to London.
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Puffin Modern Classics) by Robert O'Brien
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Category: Young Reader | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9-11
They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret ...Time is running out for Mrs. Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in the unexpected form of a group of mysterious, super-int ...Show more
Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics) by Astrid Lindgren
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Category: Young Reader | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The classic novel about the little girl with crazy red pigtails and a flair for the outrageous is available once again. Illustrations.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor and David Kearney (illustrator)
$16.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fantasy | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here'. The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming ...Show more
The Borrowers (Puffin Modern Classics) by Mary Norton
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Category: Young Reader | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9-11
The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They own nothing, borrow everything, and think that human beings were invented just to do the dirty work. Arrietty's father, Pod, was an expert Borrower. He could scale c ...Show more
The Diary of a Killer Cat (Puffin Modern Classics) by Anne Fine
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Category: Young Reader | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Poor Ellie is horrified when Tuffy drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. But Tuffy can't understand what all the fuss is about. Who on earth will be the next victim to arrive through the cat-flap? Can soft-hearted Ellie manage to get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ways before he ends ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler; Harry Brockway
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Category: Young Reader | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more