Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Killed in a tragic accident at a seaside amusement park while trying to save a little girl, Eddie, an elderly man who believes that he had lived an uninspired life, awakens in the afterlife, where he ...

James Patterson - Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save ...

Treasure Island

Piracy and adventure on the high seas provide a striking contrast between the evil of Long John Silver and the good of young Jim Hawkins.

Gordon Korman - Swindle

After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and ...

Gulliver'S Travels: 1400 Headwords

Both a satire on human nature and a parody of the " travellers' tales " literary sub-genre. Swift's masterpiece is his most celebrated work and one of the indisputable classics of the English ...

Jules Verne and Jane Bingham - Around the World in Eighty Days: 5 Weeks in a Balloon

Countless generations have thrilled to these stirring tales of adventure and derring-do. The Whole Story series adds to these enduringly popular tales with extended captions that provide the ...

Jim Stovall - The Ultimate Gift: Library Edition

Celia Rees - Witch Child

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

Jane Green - The Beach House

Disregarding local gossip that pegs her an eccentric, sixty-five-year-old Nantucket widow Nan skinny-dips in unattended pools and steals her neighbors' flowers before her dwindling funds force her to ...

Pat Frank and David Brin - Alas, Babylon

A story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a town which escaped nuclear bombing.