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Fall 2013

“A child enjoye child

dren’s story that can only be ed by children is not a good dren’s story in the slightest.” ­– C.S. Lewis

INTRODUCTION. Remember the books you read as a kid – the ones that you couldn’t put down; the ones that you read again and again; the heroes you fell in love with, and the villains you hated; the characters you wanted to be like; and the adventures you wanted to have?

We do too - and we like to call them ESsential Modern Classics.

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harry potter and the philosopher’s stone.

Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. He lives with his perfectly normal Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley – who in their exceptional kindness make him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. However, on Harry’s eleventh birthday he receives a mysterious letter and his life is changed forever. He is whisked away by a hairy giant of a man and enrolled in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Harry Potter is not ordinary at all - he’s a wizard.

This is the first book in the Harry Potter series.

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“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelvefoot mountain troll is one of them.”

– J.K. Rowling the Philosopher’s Stone

the magician’s nephew.

Polly and Digory were having a fairly normal summer until they accidentally interrupted Uncle Andrew and became a part of an experiment – but the old magician had no idea what kind of adventure he sent them on. Hurtled into the Wood between the Worlds, the children soon find that they can enter many worlds through the mysterious pools there. After mucking about in multiple worlds they see Narnia come to be.

This is the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia series.

Soft Cover $12.99

lemony snicket and a series of unfortunate events: the bad beginning.

Dear Potential Reader, This is the tale of three Baudelaire children, who find themselves thrown into an unhappy situation containing a treacherous villain with an evil scheme and bad manners, becomes more and more dreadful on each page, and everyone so foolhardy as to read it will find themselves weeping and moaning by the end of the book.

With all due respect, Lemony Snicket Hard Cover, Special Edition $5.99

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“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”

– Orson Scott Card

ender’s game.

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. Six year old Ender is drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender’s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. Ender’s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

This is the first book in the Ender series.

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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.

One does not love breathing.”

– Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird

To kill a mockingbird.

As our story begins, summer has just started. Scout is six, and Jem is ten, and they have just discovered a boy hiding in their next door neighbors turnip greens. He’s a scrawny kid who’s name is Dill, and the three become instant friends as soon as it’s revealed that Dill has already seen “Dracula”, which gives him instant credibility.

As summer progresses and favorite games become old hat, Scout, Jem, and Dill become obsessed with making Boo Radley come out. Boo Radley lives up the street from Scout and Jem, and legend has it that he never comes out of his house.

Soft Cover $9.99

anne of green gables.

As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farm house called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever... but will the Cuthberts sent her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she’s not what they expected – a skinny girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match. If only she can convince them to let her stay, she’ll try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes and blurting out the first thing that comes to her mind. Anne is not like anybody else, the Cuthberts agree; she is special - a girl with an enormous imagination. this orphan girl dreams of the day when she can call herself Anne of Green Gables.

This is the first book in the Anne of Green Gables novels.

Soft Cover $4.99

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The hobbit.

Bilbo had a quite, comfortable life with a pantry full of cakes and a well decorated hole. But his life became terribly uncomfortable one evening when a wizard named Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrived unexpectedly at his house for supper. Though he had never stolen so much as a turnip they had come to ask him to be the burglar on their dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. And completely unnaturally, Bilbo agreed.

Precedes the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Soft Cover, Special Edition $24.99 8

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