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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.

An illustrated edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic about a ten-year-old girl named Mary, orphaned by a cholera outbreak, who comes to live at a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers Colin, her invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm.

They tried their best to break his powerful body. But they could never break his magnificent spirit! Anna Sewell's timeless tale of the powerful, yet gentle Black Beauty has become the best-loved horse story of all time.

The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike goldfields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog.

Designed to acquaint readers with famous stories, this book, in graphic novel format, retells Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.

A Kansas girl named Dorothy is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz, where she and three new friends must find a wizard to grant their wishes, including Dorothy's wish to go home.

An epic adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub who's been raised by a family of wolves.

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.

Presents the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they solve a baffling murder in "A Study in Scarlet.