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A gingerbread boy runs away from the woman who made him and from several other creatures who wish to eat him, but a clever fox proves his undoing.

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

A homework pack that contains book and audio versions of "The Chocolate War," a story in which a high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fundraising drive; and includes a student worksheet and teacher's guide.

Unhappy with the poor living conditions they must endure, the animals of Manor Farm gather for a secret meeting to plan a revolt.

Presents the original text of the Mark Twain story that relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, 19th-century town on the Mississippi River, and provides side notes, illustrations, and annotations that contain information on the history, geography, and social customs of the day.

In Transylvania there once lived a Count. His name and the name of his castle are the same: Dracula.

In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions.

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.

Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

Presents Upton Sinclair's classic novel, which depicts the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young Lithuanian immigrant struggling in early-twentieth-century America, and includes a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, critical analyses, and other study tools.

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's comedies. Bassanio, a penniless Venetian noble asks his friend to borrow money to impress a heiress named Portia.

Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, uses his skill at controlling natural forces to cause the shipwreck of his old opponents, forcing them to seek refuge on the island where he and his daughter Miranda have been living in exile, and setting the stage for Miranda to fall in love with Ferdinand, the prince of Naples.

After Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.

"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.