Meet Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger, four great pals who live in the country. Whether they're rowing lazily on the river, defending Toad Hall from the wicked creatures of the Wild Wood, or getting a member of their group out of trouble - again!-they share rousing adventures and an enduring friendship that rises above species and lasts a lifetime.
David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek re…
Wherever he goes, trouble seems to follow Huckleberry Finn, an independent boy growing up in mid-1800s Missouri. Trouble finds Huck yet again on a great rafting adventure down the Mississippi River, where he runs into his old friend Jim. He also meets a few new acquaintances who seem eager to make Huck's life as difficult as possible.
Even as he said this, Robin was aware of armed men wearing the Sheriff's livery who were closing in round the tree, and of the Bishop of Peterborough with his followers riding through the forest towards where he was. 'A trap!' thought Robin, and in a moment he had dropped out of the tree and was running his hardest down the hill while Worman shouted: 'After him, men! It is Robin Hood! This …
The Evening arrived; the boys took their places. The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper, his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver, while his next neighbours nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with…