JFIC Stand Alone Books

"Prince Alfred has never left the safety of Buckingham Palace. But there are strange goings on inside the palace walls--and Alfred's life is about to change forever. In the dead of night something terrible stalks the corridors. When Alfred's beloved mother the queen is dragged off...the boy must summon all his courage to embark on an epic quest to save her...and the entire world"--

4.3 stars

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

5 stars

A treasury of the enduring popularity of Bramly Hedge, bringing thoghter all the much-loved classic stories.

4.5 stars

When a mysterious old man gives James some magical, tiny green things, he certainly never imagines that they will grow into an enormous peach. A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.

3 stars

Longing for a place of her own, a ten-year-old orphan creates a secret home in a deserted cottage in the village of St. Martin's Green.

4 stars

Oliver Twist as a mistreated orphan living in a grim workhouse. Hoping to find a better life, young Oliver runs away to London where he becomes involved with a gang of criminals and thieving children. Will Oliver ever find a real home?

4.5 stars

With their father called away, Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis must move with their mother to the country, where they wait each day at the train station in hopes their father will arrive.

3 stars

An abridged version of the adventures and exploits of King Arthur and his knights at the court of Camelot and elsewhere in the land of the Britons.

Eleven-year-old Annie trains her dog Runt to participate in an Agility Course Grand Championship in an effort to save her family farm.

5 stars

In 1972 Viva and her Indian family were forced to leave Uganda--now in a resettlement camp in England she struggles to cope with the living conditions there, hoping that her father may join them soon.