Books that have been around and had been well received by readers
Little women by Lousia May Alcott
"WEALTH IS CERTAINLY A MOST DESIRABLE THING, BUT POVERTY HAS ITS SUNNY SIDE..."
1t's Christmas time ...
The March family has fallen on bad times after the father lost their money. The Your March sisters -the nearly perfect little woman' Meg, the tomboyish Jo, the shy but wise Beth, and the artist of the family Amy are planning to brighten up their Christmas by buying presents while their father is away, fighting the Civil War.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
Satirical and nostalgic, Mark Twain's epic masterpiece, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, brings out the inequities of adult reality from beneath the innocence of
childhood.
In the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, along the Mississippi River, Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and half-brother Sid.
As the novel begins, we catch him stealing from the jam jar and narrowly escaping being hit. But his life is full of adventurous episodes. What happens as he moves from one escapade to another- accompanying Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night where they witness a trio of grave robbers; falling in love with Becky Thatcher and being shunned; enjoying the new found freedom and then being struck by the idea of appearing at his own funeral; hunting for buried treasure in a haunted house with Huck and so on ...?