Puffin Modern Classics: The Sheep-pig
Dick King-Smith
Farmer Hoggett thinks the piglet he wins at the fair is just one to be fattened up for the freezer until his old sheepdog, Fly, takes Babe under her wing and starts to train him to be a sheepdog too....
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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The Worst Witch
Jill Murphy
The trials and tribulations of a disastrous new girl at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches a gloriously witchy boarding school, The Worst Witch has magic galore. Unfortunately for Mildred Hubble, most of it has a habit of going badly wrong....
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 25/11/2004
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The Diary of a Killer Cat
Anne Fine
A cat’s eye view of the world is not exactly the same as a humans! Tuffy’s got no problems with the trail of delicious victims he brings into the house. A bird, a mouse – they are both delicious. In...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 25/11/2004
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Puffin Modern Classics: George's Marvellous Medicine
Roald Dahl
Young George mixes a medicine to make his nasty grandmother more likeable, and once she drinks it she grows to immense proportions. George's father wants the formula to breed a race of super-size livestock, but George can't duplicate the recipe....
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Puffin Modern Classics: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert O'Brien
They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret ... Time is running out for Mrs Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Carrie's War
Nina Bawden
Chosen by Jacqueline Wilson, February 2012 Guest Editor: "This is a very touching utterly convincing book about three wartime evacuees billeted to Wales.  It's very much a children's story, with a mystery to be solved, but Nina Bawden is very subtle with...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 28/10/1993
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Puffin Modern Classics: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. During that year, though, when the night...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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The Borrowers
Mary Norton
Carnegie Winner in 1952. An enchanting classic that will fire up a child’s imagination as the storyline unfolds of little creatures living under the floorboards and borrowing everything they need from the humans above the boards.  The author...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 28/10/1993
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Family From One End Street
Eve Garnett
Chosen by Jacqueline Wilson. Carnegie winner in 1937. When I re-read this down-to-earth, charming adventure that’s full of humour I felt more than a little sad for although the 1930s was a decade of hardship for most people...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 25/03/2004
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Family From One End Street (Puffin Modern Classics)
Eve Garnett
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1940 - 1949 - reviewed by Jacqueline Wilson. This book also won the Carnegie Medal in 1937. When I re-read this down-to-earth, charming adventure...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Charlotte's Web (Puffin Modern Classics)
E B White
David Almond, September 2011 Guest Editor, on Charlotte's Web: "It’s the story of a girl, a pig and a spider. It takes place on a barn, a farm, and a country fair. It shows the gorgeousness of life, the imminence...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog (Puffin Modern Classics)
Jeremy Strong
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1990 - 1999 Featuring a boy, an extremely fast family pet dog and a bet, this is very definitely laugh-out-loud funny and chock full of action and adventure during what might otherwise have been a rather boring...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Goodnight Mister Tom (Puffin Modern Classics)
Michelle Magorian
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1980 - 1989 A wonderful debut novel from an author who is now widely acknowledged as one of the great children’s novelists of our time. A storyline that will pull on the heartstrings more than...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Stig Of The Dump (Puffin Modern Classics)
Clive King
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1960 - 1969 Published over 45 years ago and yet as relevant today as it was then. This is a book that will captivate the imagination of a 7 or 8 year old – in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Modern Classics)
Roald Dahl
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1970 - 1979 A book that requires no introduction as it is probably Dahl’s best-known and most read creation and deservedly so. The secretive and magical world of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory is revealed to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Puffin Modern Classics: Walkabout
James Vance Marshall
Mary and her brother Peter are the only survivors of an aircrash in the middle of the Australian outback. Facing death from exhaustion and starvation, they meet an aboriginal boy who helps them to survive, and guides them along their...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Puffin Modern Classics: The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll
Edward Ardizzone, Aingelda Ardizzone
There was once a tiny doll who belonged to a girl who did not care for dolls. One day she threw the tiny doll into a deep freeze. So the tiny doll had to stay there, cold and lonely, and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Puffin Modern Classics: Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah
Jung-ling's family considers her bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her. They discriminate against her and make her feel unwanted yet she yearns and continuously strives for her parents' love. Her stepmother is vindictive and cruel and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Puffin Modern Classics: Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
Ursula Moray Williams
Gobbolino has one white paw and blue eyes and isn't wicked at all, so his mother doesn't like him. He escapes to look for a kitchen home but is distrusted everywhere he goes and blamed for mysterious happenings. This is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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Puffin Modern Classics: Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories
Joyce Lankester Brisley
Millicent Margaret Amanda - or Milly-Molly-Mandy for short - lives in a tiny village in the heart of the English countryside. She is always busy helping out, going on visits and having fun with little-friend - Susan and Billy Blunt....
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/08/2007
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Puffin Modern Classics: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Roald Dahl
Features a Quentin Blake cover.
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/07/2007
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After the First Death
Robert Cormier
A favourite book of Michael Rosen: "Cormier is never afraid of handling how the personal meets the political all within the framework of a thriller."
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/08/2006
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Puffin Modern Classics: The Tulip Touch
Anne Fine
Tells the story of a strange and disturbing friendship seen through the eyes of Natalie, as she gets to know Tulip Pierce, a delinquent girl most others go out of their way to avoid. This work explores the dark side...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2006
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Puffin Modern Classics: The Werepuppy
Jacqueline Wilson
A werewolf video leaves Micky terrified of dogs. Mum decides the only answer is to get Micky a puppy of his own. To everyone's surprise - including Micky's - he chooses a werepuppy. But Wolfie turns out to be a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/11/2004
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The Hodgeheg
Dick King-smith
This is an absolutely charming modern classic from one of Britain’s all-time favourite authors.  There is no-one more impressive when it comes to animal stories than Dick King-Smith and this one is our favourite. The Hodegheg has everything – humour,...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 25/11/2004
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Puffin Modern Classics: Smith
Kenny McKendry, Leon Garfield
Young Smith was a pickpocket - a very accomplished one. But one day his pick-pocketing was to lead him into a sinister and dangerous web of murder, intrigue and betrayal.
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/11/2004
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Junk
Melvin Burgess
Carnegie winner in 1996. When it was published in 1996 it created a Storm of Protest - especially from those who didn't bother to read it. The book, however, is credible, honest, realistic, moving and sympathetic - not...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 06/03/2003
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Puffin Modern Classics: The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Greasers, Rockers, different place, different name - but wherever they are, they're outsiders; the rough, tough, long-haired boys from the other side of town, with little hope of Mustangs, madras shirts and the good things of American life in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2003
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Anne Frank
Chosen by Michael Rosen. First published over 60 years ago, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has reached millions of young people throughout the world. However, the recent major new BBC TV dramatisation has brought her extraordinary writing to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2002
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Puffin Modern Classics: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl
Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the nastiest and meanest farmers you could meet - and they hate Mr Fox! They're determined to catch him and lie outside his hole, ready to shoot, starve or dig him out. Clever Mr Fox...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/05/2000
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Puffin Modern Classics: The BFG
Roald Dahl
The BFG is a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed one dark night. Fortunately, he really is friendly, but his countrymen in the Land of Giants are inveterate child-eaters.
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/1999
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Two Weeks with the Queen
Morris Gleitzman
A favourite of August 2011 Guest Editor Julie Hearn. To writing a moving and funny book, especially for children, about as serious a subject as cancer is a remarkable achievement. Two Weeks with the Queen is a remarkable example of...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 04/03/1999
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Puffin Modern Classics: Madame Doubtfire
Anne Fine
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life easier in either home. The children bounce to and from their mother, Miranda, and their father, Daniel. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/12/1995
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as 'It'. How Charles, his sister Meg...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/1995
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Puffin Modern Classics: Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
It was Leslie who invented Terabithia - the secret country on an island in the dry creek. Here Jess could be strong, unafraid and unbeatable. When something terrible happens, Jess finds he can face grief and disaster better than he...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/03/1995
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