Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

The gripping story of young Karana, an Indian girl who survives by herself for eighteen years on a deserted island off the California coast. A quiet acceptance of fate characterizes her ordeal.

Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age.
 
This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision,...

"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...

Leven discovers that he must travel to the island of Alder to find the answer that will save the realm of Foo from destruction.

Aidan and Sarah Cooper begin to decipher a mysterious coded document that they discovered in a secret compartment of an antique English desk their father recently bought at an auction, and as they become more involved in the piece, which seems to be referring to the story about the origin of Peter Pan, a powerful being begins to pursue them.

"Magical twins Fifer and Thisbe Stowe have spent their entire lives wishing for an adventure. When a dragon shows up claiming that his family is being kept as slaves in their homeland, the twins sneak off to the land of the dragons to help them"--

When they begin receiving threatening messages they believe are from their villainous parents, Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay know they must return to the Isle of the Lost to find out what is going on before the plot to destroy Auradon succeeds.

Geronimo's sister Thea convinces him to help her find a haunted pirate treasure buried on a desert island, even thought he hates travel and ghosts.

A book without words in which friends who have never met meet.