Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo Here comes a candle to light you to bed, Here comes a chopper to chop off your head. Michael Morpurgo’s best-selling novel, Private Peaceful, is, above all, a poignant story of war and its many life-changing effects on those...
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Stuck in a rut? Too comfortable in your surroundings? Then why not be like Bilbo Baggins and go on the adventure of a lifetime – albeit all from the safety of your favourite chair. Whisked from his comfortable existence in the Shire, Bilbo...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck’s dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi river with runaway slave, Jim....
Holes by Louis Sachar Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large...
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller During the second half of World War II, a soldier named Yossarian is stationed with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa, near the Italian coast in the Mediterranean Sea. The squadron is thrown thoughtlessly into brutal combat...
