This is a brief, readable account of English prose fiction for children from its beginning main streams of development and includes the 'Courtesy Books' of a later age, and the work of the remarkable John Newbery in the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century which began with Mrs. Sherwood's The Fairchild Family - 'designed to strike the fear of hellfire into every child's soul' - later saw the works of Lewis Carroll, Stevenson, Henty and the development of the school story from 'Tom Brown' to 'Stalky.'"--Book Jacket.
Abandoned by their uncle and aunt, Kevin and Sandra run away to Gumble's Yard, a deserted row of cottages. Soon strange people start to come and go, mysterious boxes keep arriving and the children soon find themselves caught up in dangerous events.
The Baskerville family has been haunted for generations by a fearsome hound - a phantom beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws. Surely it is just a legend? Then Sir Charles is found mysteriously dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall. It is time to bring in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, to discover the truth about the family curse."--BOOK JACKET.
The isolated Islanders, resistant of all newcomers, have always governed by the Teaching in the Book which has been orally passed down for generations. One day they find out, from one who reads, the real and astonishing story in the book.
By running away to marry Lynn, a girl two years older than he, sixteen-year-old Graham hopes to escape his restricted life with his parents and free Lynn from the man with whom she has been living.
Sixteen-year-old Alan, friendless and unhappy after moving to a small English village, falls in love with his twenty-three-year-old tutor whose presence causes problems for Alan and his parents.
Palmed off to relatives by his mother, eleven-year-old Dan runs away, and after a series of adventures with a family of ne'er-do-wells finally brings together the people who will become the family he's always dreamed of having.
Biographical information, bibliographies, and critical examinations are presented for fourteen American, British, and Australian writers including Nina Bawden, Peter Dickinson, Penelope Lively, and Bill Cleaver
In the summer of 1939 a sixteen-year-old boy and girl considered the "perfect couple" by their families secretly begin seeing and falling in love with another girl and boy.
In search of a less restrictive way to live, two young people break away from their colony of Persons on the planet Earth, become involved with the inferior Creatures who inhabit Earth, and are thrust into the forefront of a revolution.
Amid the backwater canals of an English industrial town, five children unravel a fifty-year-old mystery about a half-sunken canalboat and its hidden treasure.
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