Classic books for teens

Jim Hawkins follows a treasure map into a sea voyage where plotting pirates threaten the search for buried treasure.

A death on the Devon moors draws Sherlock Holmes into an investigation involving a monstrous hound and a threatened heir.

Betrayed and carried away aboard a ship, David Balfour struggles to return and claim his inheritance in a divided Scotland.

A prince and a poor boy exchange clothes, discovering royal duties and hunger when each is mistaken for the other.

A lawyer investigates why his friend protects a violent stranger, as troubling actions give him growing reason for concern.

Holmes examines missing people, stolen jewels and strange offers, looking beyond his clients' explanations through observation and logic.

Phileas Fogg leaves his precise daily routine behind to attempt a journey around the world in eighty days.

Talkative, imaginative Anne arrives at an island farm where her unexpected presence leaves two siblings deciding whether she can stay.

Seventeen-year-old Catherine enters Bath society with an imagination shaped by frightening novels, complicating her judgments about ordinary life and love.

Tom's games and escapes from chores turn into real danger when he and Huckleberry Finn witness a murder.

Four sisters with different hopes grow up amid family quarrels and daily hardships while their father serves during the Civil War.

Lonely Mary discovers a locked garden at her uncle's Yorkshire house and begins tending it while making new friends.

Sixteen-year-old Anne becomes a village teacher, helps raise two orphans and discovers the responsibilities and mistakes that accompany her plans.

An abandoned creature seeks affection and acceptance, while rejection turns its hopes toward revenge against the scientist who created it.

A lonely miser receives a warning and visits from spirits who confront him with visions of Christmas and his life.

Alice follows a rabbit into a world where changing sizes and argumentative creatures unsettle ordinary rules and her sense of identity.

A horse tells his own story as changing owners expose him to patient kindness, careless treatment and work in London.

A writer struggles to survive as Martian invaders advance toward London, leaving fleeing crowds and ruined towns behind them.

A traveller reaches a distant future where humanity has divided into descendants living above ground and beneath it.

An English house ghost tries to frighten an American family who answer his haunting with practical advice and cleaning products.