Frank Carlson Library

Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London.

Gulliver has an itch to travel around the world, but whenever he steps on a ship, bad luck seems to find him. He is shipwrecked, abandoned, marooned, and mutinied against, and each time lands in a strange and curious place. First he discovers the kingdom of the six-inch-tall Lilliputians, then the country of the giant Brobdingnagians, then the island of the academic Laputans, which floats in the sky, and finally the noble realm of the horselike Houyhnhnms....

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

First published in 1877. Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead, describes his idyllic days on a country squire's estate and his harsh fate as a London cab horse.

"Phileas Fogg's bet that he can span the world in eighty days takes him by train, ship, sled, and elephant across ninettenth-century India, China, and America in one of the wittiest, most enjoyable classics of all time."--P. [4] of cover.

A nineteenth-entury science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.