Abandoned by her husband after receiving a fatal medical diagnosis.

While their father is napping, two boys enthusiastically wash everything in sight.

The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular book and is considered by many to be his best.

The Sheik is a book by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century.

The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second book in Baum's Oz series.

Ozma of Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

Anne of Green Gables is a best-selling novel and Canadian classic. It was originally intended for all audiences, but is now commonly considered a children's book.

The fifth book in the popular Barsoom series, The Chessmen of Mars is a 1922 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow collects together eight Sherlock Holmes stories.

H. G. Wells' prophetic The War in the Air foretold the use of airplanes in warfare and the coming of World War I.

Charlotte Bronte's Villette is the gothic tale of Lucy Snowe, who travels to the fictional town of Villette in Belgium to teach at a girl's school.

In this book, Wishbone, the lovable dog imagines he is the great warrior-hero Beowulf.

Annie tells her friends to "come as you are" -and they do!

In this book, Joe and his faithful dog, Wishbone track down a mysterious burglar.

The Tao Te Ching is a classic Chinese book of wisdom.

J M Barrie's most famous character, Peter Pan, originated in a whimsical story from his book The Little White Bird.

In the third book in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, Anne of the Island, our protagonist leaves her teaching work in Avonlea in order to study for her B.A. at Redmond College.

Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, from 1871, is a children's novel that is often put in the genre literary nonsense.

Of all the problems which the alert and curious mind of modern man is considering, none occupies him more than that of the relations of the sexes.