The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

La journée la plus chaude de l’été, jusqu’à présent en tout cas, tirait à sa fin et un silence somnolent s’était install...

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

I FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

Anne of the Island

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

'Harvest is ended and summer is gone,' quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily.

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975

Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott, Success Oceo

If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mr...

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

As the novel opens, Gene Forrester returns to Devon, the New Hampshire boarding school he attended during World War II.

The Enchanted Castle

by Edith Nesbit

There were three of them-Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerry's name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

part 1 They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up be...

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

by Jeff Kinney

Don't email me 21leem@simonballe.herts.sch.uk

Jacob's Room

by Virginia Woolf

So of course," wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, "there was nothing for it but to leav...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.

Le petit prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

ALS ICH SECHS Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch uber den Urwald, das ,,Erlebte Geschichten" hei , ein prachtig...

Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und vo...

by Michael Ende

In alten Zeite, als die Menschen noch in ganz anderen Sprachen redeten, gab es in den warmen Ländern schon große und prä...

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

I'd never given much thought to how I would die--though I had reason enough in the last few months--but even if I had, I...