The Call of the Wild

Jim Hawkins finds a map in a dead sailor's chest and ships out with a crew hiding a mutiny. The complete text in a clean modern edition with cover art.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tom skips school, hunts for buried treasure and witnesses a crime in a Mississippi river town. This is the full novel, not the shortened school reader.

Mark Twain

Huck fakes his own death and rafts down the Mississippi with Jim, who is escaping slavery. A first-person narration that reshaped American fiction.

Mark Twain

An orphan is sent by mistake to a brother and sister who wanted a boy, and talks her way into staying. The book that made Prince Edward Island famous.

L. M. Montgomery

Four sisters grow up in a household short on money and long on ambition while their father is away at war. Jo March wants to write, and says so.

Louisa May Alcott