Publisher's Synopsis
This box contains 30 full-length novels, selected for older juniors and including both contemporary and classic fiction. The novels are "The Monster Garden", by Vivien Alcock, "The Outside Child", "A Handful of Thieves" and "Humbug", by Nina Bawden, "The Secret Garden", by Frances Hodgson Burnett, "The Not-Just Anybody Family", "The Eighteenth Emergency", "The Pinballs" and "The Cartoonist", by Betsy Byars, "Matilda", by Roald Dahl, "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens, "The Six Apprentices", by Leon Garfield, "The Family From One End Street", by Eve Garnett, "The Sheep-Pig", by Dick King-Smith, "Kiss the Dust", by Elizabeth Laird, "My Friend Walter" and "Waiting for Anya", by Michael Morpurgo, "The Splendid Journey", by Honore Morrow, "The Borrowers", by Mary Norton, "The Tale of Sir Gawain", by Neil Philip, "Beware! Beware! Chilling Tales", by Jean Richardson, "The Road to Canterbury", "The Way of Danger" and "The Clashing Rocks", by Ian Serraillier, "Ash Road", by Ian Southall, "Marassa and Midnight", by Morna Stuart, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", by Mark Twain, "Treasure Island", by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Island of the Blue Dolphins", by B. Scott O'Dell, and "The Secret", by Ruth Thomas.
