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f ** CLASSIC TITLES – most of these are available in the school library; all through Amazon or iBooks, and many are available free **
 * 1) 1. // 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea // – Jules Verne: misanthropist in a sub M
 * 2) 2. // Around the World in 80 Days // – Jules Verne: man takes a bet ... E/M
 * 3) 3. // Anne of Green Gables // – L. M Montgomery: bro & sis couple adopts boy ... whoops girl! E
 * 4) 4. // Pride & Prejudice // – Jane Austen: He’s proud, she is too; He’s prejudiced, she is too – love at first sight ... sort of! M/H
 * 5) 5. // Sense & Sensibility // – Jane Austen: they’re left homeless & ripped off ... She & he almost ... No, yes, no ...?? M/H
 * 6) 6. // Emma // – Jane Austen: she’s a bit of a meddlesome matchmaker ... and it all goes awry. Or does it? M/H
 * 7) 7. // Jane Eyre // – Charlotte Bronte: she’s smart, but poor; he’s rich and wild ... Will they? M/H
 * 8) 8. // Wuthering Heights // – Emily Bronte: by; she’s a nutbag, he’s the whole nuthouse! Death everywhere ... Whew! M/H
 * 9) 9. // Middlemarch // – George Eliot: It’s the story of the characters of the village of Middlemarch ... VH
 * 10) 10. // Silas Marner // – George Eliot: he is ripped off, loses everything (he thinks); finds a child ... and happiness! H
 * 11) 11. // The Time Machine // – H.G Wells: he builds a time machine (gasp!) goes to the future ,,, Eloi … and Moorlocks! M/H
 * 12) 12. // War of the Worlds // – H.G Wells: Mars invades … We’re all gonna die! M/H
 * 13) 13. // The invisible man // – H.G Wells: man invents an invisibility potion … uses it for evil (he’s a bit mad!) H
 * 14) 14. // The Island of Dr Moreau // – H. G. Wells: Weird doc does experiments with animals/men … H
 * 15) 15. // Moby Dick // – Herman Melville: Mad captain hunts a white whale that once bit off his leg … VH
 * 16) 16. // Red Badge of Courage // – Stephen Crane: US cicil war; boy flees battle, feels a coward … eventually faces his fear M
 * 17) 17. // Robinson Crusoe // – Daniel Defoe: shipwreck, alone, Friday, rescue (with pirates & cannibals in between) E/M
 * 18) 18. // Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet // etc – Shakespeare: boy & girl love/hate ... everyone dies! VH
 * 19) 19. // Black Beauty // – Anna Sewell: a horse’s life (worse than a dog’s!) E
 * 20) 20. // The Three Musketeers // – Alexandre Dumas: young naive youth goes to join musketeers ... has to save the Queen! E/M
 * 21) 21. // The man in the Iron Mask // – Alexandre Dumas: the (bad) king’s twin bro is locked up, masked ... will he escape? M/H
 * 22) 22. // The Count of Monte Christo // – Alexandre Dumas: man is betrayed by his friend (and wife?) ... prison – revenge! M/H
 * 23) 23. // The Man Who Would be King // – Rudyard Kipling: two soldiers adventure after Alexander ... King of Kafiristan! E/M
 * 24) 24. // Captains Courageous // – Rudyard Kipling: spoilt boy overboard ... fisherfolk help him grow up! E/M
 * 25) 25. // The Jungle book // – Rudyard Kipling: stories about the creatures of the jungle E
 * 26) 26. // Treasure Island // – R. L Stephenson: Bones gives Jim the map; squire & Smollett take him there BUT Silver!! E
 * 27) 27. // Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde // – R L Stephenson : what’s the relationship between good Dr Jeckyll & evil Mr Hyde? H
 * 28) 28. // The Secret Garden // – Francis Hodgson Burnett: she is orphaned, stays with her sad uncle ... and finds - E/M
 * 29) 29. // On our selection // – Steele Rudd: short stories about the early days of colonial Australia M
 * 30) 30. // The fortunes of Richard Mahony // – Henry Handel Richardson: life & times of an Oz doc from Goldfields M/H
 * 31) 31. // The Scarlet Pimpernel // – Baroness Orczy: teh Revolution is murdering the nobility ... except some are saved! E/H
 * 32) 32. // The adventures of Sherlock Holmes // – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the world’s greatest detective short stories. M
 * 33) 33. // Robbery under arms // – Rolf Bolderwood: two brothers are seduced by adventure into helping Captain Starlight. M
 * 34) 34. // For the term of his natural life // – Marcus Clarke: innocent man sentenced to transportation to VanDiemens Land H
 * 35) 35. // King Solomon’s Mines // – H. Rider Haggard: expedition to deepest, darkest Africa to find the fab mines and gold E/M
 * 36) 36. // Alice in Wonderland // – Lewis Carrol: the rabbit, the Queen, the Mad Hatter ... They’re all there! M/H
 * 37) 37. // A Christmas Carol // – Charles Dickens: Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas
 * 38) 38. // Oliver Twist // – Charles Dickens: Oliver shows us the grungy side of nineteenth-century London M/H
 * 39) 39. // A Tale of Two Cities // – Charles Dickens: Sidney Carton does a “far, far greater thing” ... M/H
 * 40) 40. // David Copperfield // – Charles Dickens: David’s dad dies, mum re-marries; David sent to boarding school ... M/H
 * 41) 41. // Great Expectations // – Charles Dickens: Pip saves a crim, receives mysterious money – a gentleman? M/H
 * 42) 42. // Little Women // – Louisa May Alcott: Dad’s away at war, the four girls grow up E
 * 43) 43. // The Magic Pudding // – Norman Lindsay: Bill, Sam and Bunyip Bluegum try to avoid puddin’ thieves! E
 * 44) 44. // Prisoner of Zenda // – A.D. Hope: Rudolph has to impersonate the kidnapped king-to-be ... E
 * 45) 45. // Dracula // – Bram Stoker: “I vant to suck your blood!” VH
 * 46) 46. // Frankenstein // – Mary Shelley: mad doc builds man ... VH
 * 47) 47. // The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn // – Mark Twain: Huck runs away with runaway slave Jim E
 * 48) 48. // Tom Sawyer // – Mark Twain: ratbag Tom, Becky and Huck ... and evil Injun Joe! E
 * 49) 49. // Call of the wild // – Jack London: Buck, the soft, pet dog is kidnapped from California and taken to Alaska E
 * 50) 50. // Heart of Darkness // – Joseph Conrad: Marlow tries to find what’s happened to the missing Kurtz H
 * 51) 51. // Lord Jim // – Joseph Conrad: Jim abandons the pilgrims on sinking ship ... later, redemption? H
 * 52) 52. // Gulliver’s Travels // – Jonathon Swift: Gulliver’s journey through some strange worlds! M
 * 53) 53. // The Odyssey // – Homer: Odysseus and his crew take the long way home! M/H
 * 54) 54. // Rob Roy // – Sir Walter Scott: Rob is robbed, outlawed ... and extracts revenge! H
 * 55) 55. // The 39 Steps // – John Buchan: Hannay is framed, and then pursued by the evil spies: where are they? (Also //Greenmantle//) M
 * 56) 56. // The Wind in the Willows // – Kenneth Graham: ratty and Moley, together with Badger defeat the stoats ‘n’ weasels E
 * 57) 57. //The Great Gatsby// – F. Scott Fitzgerald – you can’t recreate the past … but Gatsby thinks he can. M/H
 * 58) 58. // Brave New World // – Aldous Huxley – test-tube babies, a ‘made’ society, sex on demand … M/H
 * 59) 59. // 1984 // – George Orwell – Big Brother, Room 101 – terrifying, and so real! H
 * 60) 60. // The Maltese Falcon // – Dashiell Hammett – the classic Sam Spade; birds and the bird! M/H
 * 61) 61. // The Big Sleep // – Raymond Chandler – the classic Philip Marlowe! Mean, lots of betrayal. M/H
 * 62) 62. // The Catcher in the Rye - // J.D. Salinger – Holden Caulfield, expelled alone in a wild NY M
 * 63) 63. // The Lord of the Rings – // J.R. Tolkien (any part/s of!) Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf and dwarves n elves M/L
 * 64) 64. // Charlotte’s Web – // E. B White – a spider and Faith save Wilbur’s bacon! E
 * 65) 65. // Lord of the Flies – // William Golding – boys alone on a tropical desert island: bliss? No! H
 * 66) 66. // Tarzan // – Edgar Rice Burroughs … the man raised by the apes – classic story! E
 * 67) 67. // To Kill a Mockingbird // – Harper Lee … racism and violence in the US south E/M
 * 68) 68. // Lord of the Flies // – William Golding … classic castaway story: boys on a desert island – or is it? M
 * 69) 69. // The Day of the Triffids // – John Wyndham … man-eating plants to wipe out blind mankind? M
 * 70) 70. // The Chrysalids // – John Wyndham … mutants must be ROOTED out! (But who can tell?) M