Dad wants to make a kite so we can go out and get lots of "Fresh Air". I wouln't mind getting more fresh air if we had a dog. But that't not going to happen because Delia's "allergic" to dog (I thi…
Fourth graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins are a couple of class clowns. The only thing they enjoy more than playing practical jokes is creating their own comic books. And together they've cre…
They defeated Dr. Diaper! They trampled the terrible talking toilets! They crushed the crazy cafeteria ladies! And they prevented preposterous Professor Poopypants from pulverizing the planet! Now …
The Dashwood sisters - 19-year-old Elinor and Marianne, aged 17 - are left poor and homeless by their father's death. Although kind relatives provide a roof over their heads, one way out of this mi…
Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. Catherine Morland is taken to Bath where among a crowd of new acquaintances, she meets Henr…
Jane Eyre rightly remains high on the list of the most popular English novels, and brought fame to its author, Charlotte Bronte, on its publication in 1847. The story's heroine, Jane, is a plain a…
George and Harold are in a sticky situation. Their latest prank has snooty school brainiac Melvin Sneedly seeing red, and he can't wait to get them back. But when Melvin tries to transform himself …
A fabulous gem is looted from a sacred Hindu shrine furing the siege of an Indian city. With his dying breath one of the shrine's guardians tells colonel John Herncastle that the Moonstone will hav…
After being wrongly branded a thief, Silas Marner loses both his fiancee and his faith. Driven from religious community where his reputation is so besmirched, the embittered Silas settles in Ravelo…