Novel Study Project

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel by English  author Lewis Carroll (the pseudonym of Charles Dodgson). It tells of a young girl named  Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.  

The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty— beginning with his carefree days as a foal on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country.

A collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger  and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is  raised in the jungle by wolves.

At the turn of the 20th century,  Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore the girl. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to become spoiled, demanding, and self-centered. After a cholera epidemic kills Mary's parents, she is sent to England to live with  her uncle, Archibald Craven. At first, Mary is as sour and rude as ever. She dislikes her new  home, the people living in it, and most of all, the bleak moor on which it sits.

The story chronicles the adventures  of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The book is one of the  best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated. The Library of  Congress has declared it "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale."

Set in the late 19th century, the  novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way  through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.

A short adventure novel by Jack London,  published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog  named Buck.

The title character is Pollyanna Whittier, an eleven-year-old orphan who goes to live in the fictional town of Beldingsville, Vermont,  with her wealthy but stern and cold spinster Aunt Polly, who does not want to take in Pollyanna but feels it is her duty to her late sister. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers  on what she calls "The Glad Game," an optimistic and positive attitude she learned from  her father. The game consists of finding something to be glad about in every situation, no  matter how bleak it may be.

It is set in the days of sailing ships  and pirates and tells of the adventures of Jim Hawkins and his search for the buried treasure of an evil pirate, Captain Flint.