Classics

398.24 Aes	Aesop’s Fables. Collection includes: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Lion and the Mouse, The Fox and the Goat, The Cat and the Birds, etc.
F Alc	Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. The classic story of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy in classic nineteenth-century New England.
398.21 And	Andersen, Hans Christian. Classic Fairy Tales. Eighteen of the Danish author’s most familiar tales, including” The Darning Needle,” “Little Claus and Big Claus,” and “The Old House.”
F Bar	Barrie, James M. Peter Pan. The adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
F Bab	Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting. The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing siutatio when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
F Bau	Baum, L. Frank. Wonderful Wizard of Oz. On the armo fo a cyclone, Dorothy and Toto are bore from the Kansas prarie to the land of Muchkins. There, Dorothy must seek ou the great wizard in order to return to Kansas. And so starts a wonderful trip to the land of Oz.
F Bur	Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. Ten year old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of the locked garden. By the same author: A Little Princess.
F Car	Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventure In Wonderland. A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and find a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. By the same author: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
F DeF	Defoe, Daniel. Robin Crusoe. On a desolate shipwrecked island, a British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized.
F Dic	Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and fortell his future. By the same author: A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist.
F Doy	Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes. The adventure of the speckled bank, The adventure of the blue carbuncle, the Musgrave ritual, The reigate puzzle, Silver blaze, The adventure of the dancing men, The adventure of the Six Napol, The Missing Three-Quarter. By the same author: The Hound of the Baskervilles.
F L’En	L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthy strangers and a search for her father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
F For	Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. After injuring his hand, a silversmith’s apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
F Gib	Gibson, Fred. Old Yeller. In the late 1860’s, in the Texas Hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen-year boy form a close, loving relationship.
F Gra	Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. The escape of four animal friends who live along the river in the English countryside – Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
F Haw	Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. In the early days of Puritan Boston Hester Prynne braves the stigma of adultery by wearing the embroidered scarlet "A" on her clothing.
F Irv	Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow takes place in Tarrytown, and tells the story of schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, Connecticut native, who comes to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. He becomes the neighborhood song master, reads Cotton Mather, steeps himself in local folklore, and competes with Brom Bones for the affections of Katrina. One afternoon, after being rebuffed by Katrina, he briskly rides off on his landlord's horse, sees an apparition of a headless horseman, and is never seen again in Sleepy Hollow.
F Kin	King-Smith, Dick. Spider Sparrow. Spider, a baby abandoned on an English farm, grows up to be mentally slower than other children but manifests a remarkable talent for communicating with animals as he comes of age during World War II. By the same author: The Toby-Man.
Sc Kip	Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. Presents three stories of Mowgli, a young boy raised by the animals in the Indian jungle, as well, as other animals and jungle stories. By the same author. Rikki-Tikki Tavi.
F LeG	LeGuin, Ursula. A Wizard of Earthsea. A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleased on the world as an apprentice to the master wizard.
F Les	Lewis, C. S. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Four English school children find their way through a back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
F Lon	London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Buck, who is half St. Bernard and halt Scotch Shepard, is abducted and taken to the Klondike where he reverts to the wild and becomes a leader of a pack of she wolves. By the same author: White Fang.
F Mil	Milne, A. A. Winnie-the Pooh. The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday. By the same author: The World of Pooh.
F Mon	Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of Green Gables. Anne, an elenven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. By the same author: Anne of Avonlea.
F Nes	Nesbit, Edith. The Enchanted Castle. Four English children find a wonderful world of magic through an enchanged wishing ring.
F Nor	Norton, Mary. The Borrowers. Minature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrat from their home under the clock.
F Pat	Paterson, Katherine. The Age of the Chrysanthemum. A teen-ager comes to know himself through contacts with social ills and political unrest while searching for his father in Japan’s capital, centuries ago.
F Sai	Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. The Little Prince. Based on the story by Antoine deSaint-Exupery, this magical musical fable begins as a pilot (Richard Kiley) makes a forced landing on the barren Sahara Desert. He is befriended by a "little" prince from the planet Asteroid B-612. In the days that follow, the pilot learns of the small boy's history and planet-hopping journeys in which he met a King, a businessman, an historian, and a general. It isn't until he comes to Earth that the Little Prince learns the secrets of the importance of life from a Fox (Gene Wilder), a Snake (Bob Fosse), and the pilot.
F Sew	Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty. Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse.
F Spe	Speare, Elizabeth B. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. In 1687, in Connecticut, Kit Taylor, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
F Spy	Spyri, Joanna. Heidi. Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps.
F Ste	Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owned them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate’s fortune. By the same author: Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
F Swi	Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. The voyages of an Englishman carrying him to such strange places such as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall.
F Tol	Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins, a respectable well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit hole until the day the wandering wizard, Gandalf, chooses him for an adventure from which he may never return. By the same author: The Lord of the Rings
F Twa	Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi river town in the nineteenth century. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the story. By the same author: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
F Ver	Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A science fiction tale in which a French professor and his companions come fact to face with exotic ocean creatures while aboard a fantastic submarine. By the same author: Around the World in Eighty Days.
F Wel	Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. Martians armed with death-rays invade earth. By the same author: The Time Machine.
F Whi	White, T. H. The Once and Future King. The Once and Future King combines all the elements of Arthurian legend, adventure, and history in describing the lives of Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and some of the other notables of Camelot. (This is the novel, some of whose elements were later adapted to the screen as the Disney movie "The Sword in the Stone".)
F Wil	Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House in the Big Woods. A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father’s stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors, By the same author: Little House on the Prairie.
F Wig	Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.
F Whi	White, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. Wilbur the pig is desolate when he discovers he is destined to be the farmer’s Christmas dinner until a spider comes up with a plan to save his life. By the same author: Stuart Little.
F Wil	Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. In late Victorian London, a beautiful young man is given a portrait of himself by an admiring artist. Soon after this he treats a young woman cruelly and then notices that his portrait seems to look meaner than it used to. Eventually he cannot endure the portrait and hides it in the attic. As the years pass, he becomes ever more unscrupulous and dissolute. His friends remark how he is as handsome as ever and never seems to age. But up in the attic his picture becomes uglier and uglier.
F Wys	Wyss, Johann David. Swiss Family Robinson. Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a Swiss minister, his wife and family struggle to survive until they can be rescued.

Last edited 09/29/08