The Call of the Wild
Stolen pet Buck learns club and fang on the Klondike trail from Perrault to Thornton and the wolves.
2,489-word summary · 11 min read
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The BFG
Orphan Sophie is taken by the Big Friendly Giant, who blows happy dreams and eats vile snozzcumbers, and helps her stop nine man eating giants.
2,812-word summary · 12 min read
Prince Caspian
The Pevensies return to ruins at Cair Paravel and help Caspian take back Narnia from Miraz.
2,304-word summary · 10 min read
James and the Giant Peach
Lonely James escapes two cruel aunts inside a giant peach with huge insect friends, rolling to the sea and floating on gulls to New York City.
2,384-word summary · 11 min read
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.
2,841-word summary · 13 min read
Beloved
Sethe lives with the memory of killing her child to save her from slavery until a young woman named Beloved arrives.
2,586-word summary · 11 min read
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
2,543-word summary · 11 min read
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift her out.
2,485-word summary · 11 min read
A Study in Scarlet
Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.
2,208-word summary · 10 min read
A Light in the Attic
Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.
2,998-word summary · 13 min read
Watchmen
A full retelling of Alan Moore's Watchmen: a retired hero's death in 1985 America sparks a sprawling plot with an exiled god and a shocking bid for peace, from…
2,762-word summary · 12 min read
Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins finds Flint's map, sails with Squire Trelawney's crew that hides pirates, and learns Long John Silver is both cook, friend, and mutineer.
2,179-word summary · 10 min read