Young Adult Classics

Louisa May Alcott's lively and heartwarming stories are favorites with young readers everywhere. A Garland for Girls will be especially welcomed by those who read and treasure all of the famous books by this great American author.

Julie would remember her happy days at Aunt Cordelia’s forever. Running through the spacious rooms, singing on rainy nights in front of the blazing fireplace. There were rides in the woods on Peter the Great, the races with Danny Trevort. Maybe best of all were the precious moments alone in her room at night, gazing at the sea of stars. But there was sadness too - the painful jealousy Julie felt after her sister got married, the tragic death of a schoolmate, and the bitter disappointment of her first love. Sometimes it all seemed like too much to handle.

Nathaniel Hawthorne has taken some of the most striking and exciting Greek legends and adapted them for young readers. In this retelling, Hawthorne maintains the conceptions held by the original authors. This collection includes "The Minotaur", "The Pygmies", "The Dragon's Teeth", "Circe's Palace", "The Pomegranate Seeds", and "The Golden Fleece".

Spannender und abwechslungsreicher kann das Leben am Mississippi kaum sein: Entweder stürzt sich Tom Sawyer mit seinem Freund Huck in waghalsige Abenteuer...

Rule by head or rule by heart? Elinor Dashwood is a great believer in "sense," while her exuberant younger sister Marianne feels keenly that only "sensibility" (what today we'd call passion) serves to guide the heart. Through vicissitudes and, in the case of Marianne, outright betrayal by her lover, these two women learn the value in the other's outlook, and thereby prepare themselves for later domestic bliss that is the hallmark resolution of Jane Austen's novels.

The setting is the civil war, and the hero (or anti-hero as it seems at first) is Henry Flemming, a young Northern boy who, swept up in the patriotic tide, joins the Union Army. He is plunged into the conflict, and his courage fails him - he runs from his first battle. He finds out later that his side was victorious, and he feels that he will never be able to face himself or his comrades again. He slowly recovers his courage in time for a crucial confrontation.

Three years after the close of Little Women, the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with only their futures to find. Along the way, they all face painful trials, from Meg's difficult lessons in housekeeping to Laurie's heartbreak in a love tragedy. Each of the girls finds happiness, but not always in the ways they expect.

Bambini e ragazzi si possano educare da soli; l'amicizia tra loro può aiutarli a migliorarsi; il lavoro e la vita all'aperto garantiscono un corpo sano e favoriscono un buon equilibrio psicologico: queste sono quindi le tesi educative del romanzo, in netto contrasto con le convinzioni pedagogiche dell'epoca. Ma il libro non precorreva i tempi solo in questo: nella seconda parte del libro vengono affrontate e ben spiegate le teorie del “pensiero positivo” e della ripetizione dei pensieri positivi che è alla base di così tante tecniche cosiddette “magiche”.....

Die große weite Welt für Jungs und natürlich Mädchen! Viele Geschichten, die von fernen Welten und großen Abenteuern berichten...

Anne Shirley från Anne på Grönkulla är sjutton år gammal i denna del två i serien om flickan Anne med de röda lockarna. Nu har hon vuxit sig stor nog att undervisa i sin gamla skola där hon söker efter speciella personer som blir hennes vänner och tillsammans drabbas de av många äventyr. Böckerna om Anne Shirley är några av världens mest älskade flickböcker och många är de som skrattat och gråtit åt Annes livshistoria.

This science-fiction classic is the story of a Professor, his nephew, and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, the two explore the mysteries of a never-before-seen subterranean world.

Die größten Autoren der Abenteuergeschichten nehmen uns mit auf Reisen. Lassen Sie sich entführen zu phantastischen, spannenden, exotischen Erlebnissen. Die folgenden neun Erzählungen sind einer ansprechenden Abenteuer-Sammlung vereint ...

Hundreds of kilometres without a car, a house, or a person in sight. The dome of clear blue above and the occasional group of roos startling off into the scrub. Then emus, bolting off in a mad panic on the other side. I was finding something that had been lost inside me and I wanted to weave in and out on that straight white ribbon of road for the joy of having found it again. Cross My Heart is the story of Mick and Michelle, chasing a dream, crossing their hearts for the future; a vibrant, passionate, sprawling novel set in outback Australia.

Der Kaufmann und Seefahrer Robinson Crusoe wird nach einem Schiffbruch als einziger Überlebender auf eine unbewohnte Insel verschlagen. Er schildert, wie er sein Leben auf der Insel meistert - vom Errichten seiner Hütte bis zu seinem Zusammentreffen mit einem Eingeborenen, den er Freitag nennt und zu seinem Diener erzieht. Doch wird er die Insel wieder verlassen können?

In 1725, Jonathan Swift published Gulliver's Travels, a book universally acknowledged as one of the most fantastic adventure stories and best satires on the human condition ever written.

Heidi who has been orphaned, is taken from her alpine home with her beloved grandfather by her less than loving aunt to be a companion for a crippled child of a wealthy family in Frankfurt. They become bosom friends but Heidi becomes ill and has to return home, but when her crippled friend comes to the Alps for a visit, well, we don't want to spoil the story for you.

In diesem Hörbuch sind acht Abenteuergeschichten berühmter Autoren vereint - in diesem Paket noch billiger als einzeln gekauft! Geschichten von Seeräubern, Hexen, einsamen Inseln, gefährlichen Räubern und noch viel mehr werden von Meistern der Dichtkunst wie Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Klabund, Jack London, Karl May, Robert Louis Stevenson und Jules Verne beschrieben...

Il romanzo di formazione al femminile per eccellenza. Qualsiasi ragazza dovrebbe ascoltarlo: le quattro diverse figure femminili sono efficacissimi specchi in cui ognuna potrà ritrovarsi. Avvincente ascoltarlo da adulte, per andare alle radici della propria identità femminile , per cambiare ciò che non è più attuale e rivivere emozioni ormai “passate di moda”.Adatto a: tutti coloro che amano i romanzi storici, per conoscere un’epoca attraverso i piccoli episodi quotidiani di una famiglia di provincia. Musica di Scott Joplin.

Das Vermächtnis des Inka ist das Ziel des Rittes, zu dem "Vater Jaguar" und seine Gefährten in Buenos Aires aufbrechen. Sie folgen dem Stierkämpfer Antonio Perillo, der sich verbrecherisch in den Besitz des Geheimnisses gebracht hat, hinauf in die Anden. Wird in der finsteren "Mordschlucht" endlich die Gerechtigkeit siegen?

Young Jim Hawkins quiet life as the son of an innkeeper changes when an ancient sailor takes up lodging at the inn. When the old man dies without paying his bill, Jim must search the sailor's one possession, a large sea-chest, for payment. He finds a map that is the key to a fortune. This commences a Caribbean treasure hunt, with pirate Long John Silver only steps behind!