Deanna McFadden

Contains retellings of eleven classic Grimm's fairy tales, including "Rapunzel," "Cinderella," "Rumpelstiltskin," and "The Brave Little Tailor."

An abridged version of the novel in which a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

"Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized...

An abridged version of the novel chronicling a Mohican brave's struggle to protect two English girls from an evil Huron during the French and Indian War.

An abridged retelling of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed.