The Brave Little Puppy and Other Stories


Enid Blyton - 1949
    For Ages 5+This Enid Blyton book contains the stories:The Brave Little PuppyThe Clockwork DuckThe Goblin AeroplaneThe Little Pink PigThe Runaway ToysA Puppy in WonderlandSnifty's Lamp PostA Cat in FairylandThe Very Little HenThe Enchanted SeaThe Goldfish That GrewThe Goblin in the Train

Road to War: A First World War Girl's Diary, 1916


Valerie Wilding - 2008
    When Daffy Rowntree's brother goes missing in action, she refuses to sit safely in England, and determines to do something to help win the war. Soon she finds herself in the mud and horror of the battlefields of France, driving an ambulance transporting the wounded of the trenches.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi


Rudyard Kipling - 1894
    Rudyard Kipling's dramatic tale, here excerpted from the greater volume of The Jungle Book, is the story of the loyal mongoose, Rikk-Tikki-Tavi, and the lengths to which he must go to protect his adoptive human family.

Daughter of the Mountains


Louise S. Rankin - 1948
    And her dream is realized when a trader brings Pempa to her parents' tea house. But after a band of robbers steals the valuable dog and quickly escapes with him into the mountains, Momo is determined to catch them and recover her beloved Pempa. To do so, she must follow the Great Trade Route across the mountains—a path that most people avoid, and which will surely put her life at risk. Momo undertakes a dangerous journey from the mountains of Tibet to the city of Calcutta, in search of her stolen dog Pempa.