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After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.

In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.

In 1100, eighteen-year-old Simon struggles to find himself a place in divided England, and when he is offered the chance to accompany the king on a royal hunt, Simon hopes the journey will unlock doors for an exciting future, but when the hunt takes a fatal turn, Simon is forced to flee for his life.

In Dover, England in 1940, fourteen-year-old Alec Curtis wants nothing more than to go to sea, to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over the earlier drowning of his cousin and to help the war effort, but when he sneaks aboard a small boat going across the English Channel to Dunkirk, his experience changes him forever.

An adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel in which a nineteenth-century orphan boy tells his life story, relating the way he overcame an unhappy childhood.

In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, seventeen-year-old Elaine of Ascolat describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the struggle against the invading Saxons and copes with feelings of jealousy toward the beautiful Gwynivere.

Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.

Fifteen-year-old Maggie leaves London during the 1941 German blitz to stay in Wales at a secluded boarding school, but when it turns out not to be as safe as it was supposed to be, she and three other girls flee and begin a harrowing journey back to London.

An illustrated adaptation of Charle's Dickens's "David Copperfield," the story of a young boy in ninteenth-century London who runs away from an unhappy home, finds employment in a wine factory, and becomes acquainted with a wide variety of characters in the city streets.

In 1929 in a sleepy Cornish village, aspiring writer Lou Trevelyan, age seventeen, is introduced to the glamour and secrets of high society by summer neighbors Caitlin and Robert Cardew.

An illustrated retelling in which a young orphan boy in nineteenth-century England lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.