Puffin classics

An English boy, Jim Hawkins, must find a buried pirate treasure before Long John Silver and then try to escape and return home safely.

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.

A collection of eight mysteries featuring detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson.

Presents an abridged version of Charles Dickens' autobiographical novel about a young boy who endures hardships as a child laborer, depicting the social conditions in nineteenth-century England.

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

Eccentric Englishman Phileas Fogg embarks on an exciting adventure after accepting a bet at his London club that he can complete a journey around the world in only eighty days.

Buck, a dog that has been forced into the harsh life of sled dog, befriends a man seeking his fortune in the Klondike gold fields, and must ultimately decide whether to stay with his master or obey his instinct to join the wolves.

Presents an unabridged edition of the classic story in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Princess Irene's discovery of a secret stair to the top turret of the castle leads to a wonderful revelation. At the same time, the miner's son Curdle overhears a fiendish plot by the goblins who live below the mountain. It will take all of their wit and courage, plus the help of Irene's magic ring, to make sense of their separate knowledge and foil the goblins' schemes.