Puffin modern classics

The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.

Thirteen-year-old Marcy Lewis, a ninth grader at Dwight D. Eisenhower Junior High, hates school and life in general until she meets her English teacher, Ms. Finney, who seems to have a new approach to teaching and actually treats kids like human beings.

A retelling of the African-American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Sadako, hospitalized with leukemia, races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes in an attempt to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Five-year-old genius Matilda finds it easy to get around her horrible parents; however, she meets her match with Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress at her school.

The various 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.

A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.