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Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty and at the mercy of a cold-hearted school mistress when her father dies, but she continues to believe in her own self worth and is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

To help students experience the joys and benefits of reading, Townsend Press presents the Townsend Library - a collection of high-interest classics.

An abridged version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up in 1800s New England; and contains over 400 vocabulary words and definitions, synonyms and pronunciation for each word, and discussion questions.

Deeply concerned with the welfare of contemporary society, Wells wrote his novel of interplanetary conflict in anticipation of war in Europe, and in it he predicted the technological savagery of twentieth-century warfare.

"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before.

A literary sensation when originally published fifty years ago, The Yearling has gone on to become a classic work of American literature.

Follows the adventures of a dog who is part wolf as he eventually makes his peace with man in the wilderness of northern Canada.

Presents a one-hundredth anniversary edition of the story of Dorothy, a young girl who is tranported by a cyclone to the magical world of Oz where she makes wonderful friends, battles evil, and must face down a wizard to return home to Kansas.

In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes.

Anne Shirley, the imaginative orphan girl taken in by brother and sister Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, is all grown up at sixteen-years-old, and ready to take her place as the new teacher at Avonlea school.

An adaptation of the classic novel about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked on an isolated island in the early nineteenth century and must rely upon their ingenuity and nature's providence to survive in their "New Switzerland.

Unwanted and unloved, Pollyanna Whittier comes to her aunt's home without a warm welcome.

A collection of the most famous stories and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe.