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Go all in for the National Year of Reading 2026 with this inspiring, accessible and powerful collection of words that matter.Featuring a stunning cover and inside illustrations by best-selling illustrator Axel Scheffler and expertly selected extracts with accessible, thoughtful commentary by Nicolette Jones, childrens book expert for The Sunday Times. The perfect gift for every occasion.Celebrate the joy of reading with this inspiring collection of poetry, prose, letters, song lyrics, speeches, quotations and more! From Shakespeare to Stephen Hawking; Greta Thunberg to Galileo; Malala to Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Lin-Manuel Miranda to Alfred Lord Tennyson - these are all in turn powerful, funny, moving, wise, and thought-provoking.Previously published in hardback as Writes of Passage

Join a school where children can change into animals! A thrilling new magical fantasy series from the author of the bestselling Kitty books.Animagicals are children born with the power to change into an animal. They can change into any animal and they need help controlling their ability until they find their true form - the animal they are destined to be. Will they fly like an eagle, leap like a leopard or skulk like a fox? Come and join them at Wild Haven, a magical school set up to protect and train animagicals in a magical forest hidden from the ordinary world.Mia can hardly believe it when she discovers she is an animagical. Shes so pleased to join the magical school where shell be helped to control her gift - especially because she cant stop turning into a mouse.Will that be her true form forever? Or is there something more exciting in store? Mia cant wait to find out. Adventure awaits...

Old rivalries, new friends and a fresh start. Can Lottie rebuild her connection with Patch enough to get them to the championships and one step closer to her dream?"A fantastic story, full of deep family secrets and all the details on horse care and showing that readers will love" Holly WebbIn this second gripping adventure, Lottie works hard to heal her bond with Patch, desperate to learn how to hear him. But ever since the Rhinefields Show when he galloped off, Patch has been detached and afraid...Meanwhile, Lotties friendship with Felix is over and she feels betrayed. But when he texts her out of the blue, she realises how much shes missed him. Could she trust him again? And why does he need her help? As more secrets emerge, Lottie and Felix try to make sense of the photograph he found and the old connection between their two families.With Wild Hill up for sale, theres still so much to overcome. Lottie knows that without Wild Hill, there will be no more time with Patch. And without Patch, there is no dream."It has echoes of all the classic horse stories I loved but with a wonderful modern twist!" Catherine BrutonMore brilliant books by the author: The Horse Who Came Home The Horse Who Danced Sunshine Stables series A Pony Called Secret series The Palomino Pony series

Em busca de esquecer o passado e preencher o vazio deixado pelas suas escolhas, Susan decide se mudar para a casa de uma amiga, bem longe de Ventura. Novas experiencias, pessoas interessantes e segredos que ela jamais imaginou logo começam a surgir em seu caminho. Ate que uma cafeteria charmosa da cidade chama a sua atenço. Sera que e ali que o seu passado ainda vive? No ultimo volume da trilogia Fogo Cruzado, as escolhas ficam mais serias, os sentimentos mais profundos e as consequencias mais reais. E o encerramento de uma historia sobre amizade,reencontros, escolhas e amadurecimento.

A obra revela, com leveza e profundidade, a beleza do cotidiano. José Nivaldo Tornisiello transforma memórias e afetos em crônicas que tocam a alma, despertam reflexões e eternizam o que há de mais h

A obra, fundamentada na teoria social de Marx e na Crítica da Economia Política, adota uma perspectiva crítica ao contestar os fenômenos que estruturam o atual capitalismo, como o trabalho alienado,

Prepare-se para uma incrível jornada de autodescoberta com O Livro para Colorir - Uma Mudança Necessária! Esta aventura mágica vai além das cores e desenhos, ensinando às crianças e aos pais conceito

Quando suas fantasias de princesa são destruídas pela cachorrinha da família, Sofia e Nina entram em uma missão inesperada: aprender a conquistar o que desejam com o próprio esforço.Nessa divertida j

Esta estória é sobre uma criança sensível, amante e protetora de animais.Se desenvolve em um ambiente sadio e no seio de uma família amorosa e equilibrada.Aline, a nossa personagem principal, mesmo com sua tenra idade, se desdobra para assistir seus amiguinhos gatos em diversos momentos.Uma estoria que convida o leitor infantil, juvenil ou adulto a viajarem num mundo de bondade praticada por uma criança.Em um mundo onde o amor e o altruismo so escassos, veremos nessa bela narrativa exemplos de tais sentimentos sendo demonstrados na mais pura essencia por nossa personagem.Vamos viajar no mundo de Aline, a menina dos gatos?

Little Women follows the intertwined bildungsroman of the March sistersMeg, Jo, Beth, and Amyset in Civil Warera New England. Alcott fuses domestic realism with comic verve and measured didacticism, staging scenes of work, illness, art, and courtship that test duty against desire. Situated between sentimental fiction and emerging American realism, the novel advances a quiet proto-feminist case for womens ambition, economic agency, and ethical citizenship within, and sometimes against, family claims. Alcotts biography underwrites this texture. The daughter of reformer Bronson Alcott and reared in Concords Transcendentalist circle of Emerson and Thoreau, she knew financial precarity, rigorous self-education, and paid labor. Service as a Civil War nurse and success as a magazine writer, together with publisher Thomas Niless request for a "girls book," led her to refashion family diaries into art. Readers seeking a humane, incisive portrait of girlhood maturing into reflections on vocation, love, and citizenship will find Little Women enduringly fresh. It is essential for students of nineteenthcentury American literature and gender studies, and a luminous choice for general readers who prize wit, moral seriousness, and domestic complexity.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Anne of Green Gables, a Canadian Bildungsroman set on Prince Edward Island, follows orphan Anne Shirley as a mistaken adoption blossoms into belonging with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert and the Avonlea community. Montgomery blends pastoral regionalism, brisk comic episodes, and lyrical description, situating the novel at the cusp of Victorian moralism and Edwardian modernity, attentive to imagination, education, and social conformity. Born on PEI and raised by strict grandparents after her mothers death, Montgomery drew on loneliness, teaching posts, and meticulous journals to craft Annes inner life and the textures of Cavendish, transfigured as Avonlea. She drafted the book while caring for her widowed grandmother; a news tale of a mis-sent orphan reputedly sparked the premise. Recommended to readers seeking more than pastoral charm, this novel illuminates language as agency, community as both constraint and refuge, and female coming-of-age with enduring nuance. It rewards scholars of Canadian regionalism and childrens literature, and delights general readers with wit, sentiment, and radiant landscapes that make loss legible and belonging hard-won.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) follows Kansas girl Dorothy Gale, swept by cyclone to Oz, who travels the Yellow Brick Road with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion to petition a humbug wizard. In brisk, transparent prose and episodic chapters, Baum fashions a distinctly American fairy tale, replacing Gothic admonition with spectacle, humor, and kindness, amplified by W. W. Denslows bold illustrations. L. Frank Baum, once a traveling actor, theater manager, shopkeeper, and journalist, honed storytelling for his children and neighborhood audiences before Father Goose (1899) made him famous. In Ozs preface he vowed a modernized fairy tale, shorn of gruesome moralizing. His Midwestern experience and love of stage effects shaped the books quick pace, democratic spirit, and faith in resourceful companionship over inherited authority. Recommended to general readers, families, and scholars alike, this classic rewards aloud reading and close study. Newcomers will delight in its clarity and warmth, while students of American literature will find a landmark text whose enduring themes of home, courage, and self-knowledge invite fresh interpretations across generations.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Treasure Island charts young Jim Hawkinss flight from a quiet inn into mutiny, marooning, and buried gold. Narrated chiefly in Jims lucid first person, with sober interludes by Dr. Livesey, it marries brisk prose to salty specificity: the creak of rigging, the stink of the stockade. Set within late-Victorian juvenile romance yet shadowed by Defoe, it consolidated pirate lore: the X-marked map, the talking parrot, and Long John Silvers unsettling blend of charm, cunning, and menace. Robert Louis Stevenson, the itinerant Scot from a dynasty of lighthouse engineers, grew up amid charts and coast talk. In 1881 he drew a treasure map to entertain his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne; the tale followed in magazine serial, its tautness shaped by that form and by his battles with illness. Travel, seafaring friendships, and moral curiosity supplied the novels ballast: a study in apprenticeship, temptation, and the ethics of command under pressure. Readers of maritime history, students of narrative craft, and adventurers at heart will find Treasure Island both swift and inexhaustible. It is a classic of action and conscience, equally suited to first-time explorers and seasoned scholars seeking the wellspring of modern pirate myth.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Little Lord Fauntleroy (Unabridged) follows Cedric Errol, an American boy lifted from New York modesty to an English earldom, whose guileless benevolence reforms his embittered grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt. Burnett blends sentimental realism with brisk, dialogue-driven scenes, shaping a transatlantic fable of class, charity, and civic virtue. Set amid Gilded Age America and late-Victorian Britain, it influenced childrens fashion and popular morals while interrogating aristocratic privilege. Frances Hodgson Burnett, born in industrial Manchester and reared after emigration in postbellum America, wrote to support her family and lived between two nations. Her intimate knowledge of poverty, aspiration, and philanthropyand her landmark defense of dramatization rightsinform the novels faith in character over pedigree. The book distills a writer shaped by transatlantic mobility, popular periodicals, and a keen eye for social theater. This unabridged edition restores Burnetts full cadence, period idiom, and narrative architecture, making it ideal for readers of childrens literature, Victorian studies, and cultural history. Whether read aloud or studied closely, it rewards with warmth and argument in equal measure. Choose it for a lucid portrait of virtue meeting powerand for a remarkably modern meditation on how empathy can recalibrate inherited authority.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

English Literature for Boys and Girls offers a brisk, story-shaped survey from AngloSaxon verse and border ballads through Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, the Augustans, the Romantics, and the Victorians. Marshall blends anecdote, biographical sketch, and briefly quoted or retold passages. Written in lucid, oral cadences, it sits within the Edwardian handbook tradition, linking literary history to national memory and moral imagination. Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, celebrated for Our Island Story and other juvenile histories, specialized in turning complex traditions into companionable narratives. Writing for an age transformed by mass schooling, she held that children learn best through stories. That pedagogical creedand her success popularizing Britains pastshaped this volumes accessible portraits of authors and its emphasis on continuity, character, and shared cultural inheritance. This is a rewarding choice for parents, teachers, and curious readers seeking an inviting gateway to the tradition. As primer and period piece, it prompts conversation, read aloud or dipped into by theme or era, and directs newcomers back to the originals. Approach it with historical curiosity, and it will still open doors to English literatures larger house.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) follows Cedric Errol, a genial New York boy who learns he is heir to the austere Earl of Dorincourt and crosses the Atlantic to recast an English estate by sheer kindness. In lucid, theatrically paced prose, Burnett fuses domestic realism with sentimental drama, using the childs moral charisma to interrogate class, charity, and authority. First serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine, the novel crystallized late-Victorian childrens fiction and popularized the emblematic "Fauntleroy suit," binding innocence to spectacle. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Manchester-born and later American by emigration, wrote from early hardship and transatlantic experience, which animate Cedrics passage between democratic America and hierarchical England. A practiced novelist and playwright, she understood the theater of manners and the market for uplift; her observations of Gilded Age wealth and urban poverty ground the books faith that benevolence can humanize privilege, while disciplined scene craft and bright dialogue explain its immediate, international success. Recommended to readers of childrens classics, Victorianists, and students of transatlantic culture, this novel rewards attention to how narrative charm can recalibrate social ideals. Read it for brisk architecture, for its dramatization of philanthropy as performance, and for the still-provocative claim that characternot titleconfers nobility.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set on the Yorkshire moor, The Secret Garden traces sour, neglected Mary Lennoxnewly orphaned from colonial Indiaas she finds a locked walled garden and, with Dickon and her ailing cousin Colin, coaxes it and themselves to life. Burnetts lucid, musical prose fuses Gothic house novel and pastoral romance, moving childrens fiction from didacticism to psychological attentiveness. Seasonal labor, birdsong, and soil become emblems of renewal, while the book quietly probes class, empire, disability, and the mindbody connection central to Edwardian New Thought. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Manchester-born and later a transatlantic celebrity, brought a gardeners precision and a bereaved mothers longing for consolation to this work. The formal borders of Maytham Hall in Kent shaped its imagery; the death of her son Lionel and her interest in spiritual healing movements inform its conviction that attention, companionship, and outdoor discipline can transform affliction. She refines the theatrical reveals of her earlier successes into an ethic of daily care. Recommended to readers of childrens classics, educators, and gardeners alike, The Secret Garden offers enduring insights into resilience, community, and the restorative imagination. Approached as pastoral therapy or as Edwardian social text, it rewards close reading and generous rereading.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Anne of Windy Poplars traces Anne Shirleys three years as principal at Summerside High, narrated chiefly through letters to her fiancé, Gilbert Blythe, interleaved with reflective prose. The epistolary architecture allows Montgomery to assemble a prismatic portrait of a Maritime townits dynastic Pringles, boardinghouse rituals at Windy Poplars with Aunt Kate, Aunt Chatty, and Rebecca Dew, and a gallery of orphans, spinsters, and stubborn patriarchs. Toned with wit, sentiment, and a faint Gothic shimmer, the novel refines domestic realism into miniature social comedies situated between Victorian moralism and modern sensibility. Montgomery, a Prince Edward Island teacher turned author, drew deeply on her years in one-room schools and on the disciplined self-observation of her journals. Her lifelong attention to the textures of small communities, alongside the constraints faced by women professionals, animates Annes negotiations with hierarchy and belonging; the letter form mirrors Montgomerys own habit of shaping experience into intimate, crafted narratives. Readers of classic fiction, educators, and admirers of epistolary art will find Windy Poplars both companionable and incisivean exploration of mentorship, community, and moral imagination that rewards slow reading and illuminates the quieter revolutions of womens work.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Boys King Arthur presents the legendary cycle of Arthur, Merlin, the Round Table, and the Grail in a sequence of lucid, swiftly paced episodes drawn from Sir Thomas Malorys Le Morte Darthur. While streamlined for younger readers, the book retains the gravitas of chivalric romance: jousts and quests are counterpointed by moral ambiguity, courtly love, and the inexorable movement from youthful triumph to tragic dissolution. Its prose tempers Malorys rolling cadences and parataxis with modern clarity, situating the tales between chronicle realism and marvel, within the late medieval romance tradition. Sir Thomas Malory, a fifteenth-century knight writing in troubled times, compiled and translated French and English Arthurian materials while imprisoned, shaping them into a national mythology amid the Wars of the Roses. His sensitivity to honor, treason, and communal fracture informs every episode, and even in abridgment his moral architecture persists: vows and ordeals test identity, and loyalty is forever shadowed by desire and political contingency. This edition is ideal for readers seeking an accessible portal to Arthurian studies, for teachers cultivating medieval literacy, and for general audiences who want high adventure with interpretive depth. It rewards rereading, inviting discussion of ethics, sovereignty, heroism, and loss.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) reshapes the medieval and broadside ballads into a continuous, episodic romance, following Robins bouts with Little John, Friar Tuck, Allan-a-Dale, and the Sheriff of Nottingham toward royal recognition and a measured return to the greenwood. Pyles lightly archaizing, ballad-like prosesprinkled with "quoth" and cheerful asidesmarries comic bravado to moral purpose, while inset songs and brisk set pieces recall the oral tradition. His integrated illustrations and book design align the volume with late Victorian Arts-and-Crafts ideals, domesticating outlawry into a code of fellowship, equity, and defiance of corrupt authority. An American illustrator-author and future founder of the Brandywine School, Howard Pyle approached the legend as educator and visual storyteller. Trained in magazine illustration and steeped in Anglo-medieval romance, he aimed to offer young readers vigor without vice. His Quaker-inflected ethics and pedagogy at Drexel and in Wilmington privileged plain dealing and communal obligation, shaping a Robin who relieves the oppressed, rebukes venal officials, and treats foes with punctilious courtesy. Scholars of folklore and childrens literature, as well as readers, will prize this generous retelling. It invites comparison with the Child ballads, suits classrooms and family reading, and remains a touchstone of ethical adventure.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.