Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger, Shao jia yun

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

It was 7 minutes after midnight.

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

"Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, bariptity, bariptity-Good. His dad had the pickup going."

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

IT was a dark and stormy night.

James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping th...

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I WILL BEGIN the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Anne of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

THE weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, w...

De consolatione philosophiae

by Boethius

Adolescence

by John W. Santrock

Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

BRIAN ROBESON stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I never left the house,...

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

THE PLAY-for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding s...