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Set Texts: 2009-10

Maria Tatar, ed, The Classic Fairy Tales: A Norton Critical Reader (1999).

Sarah Fielding, The Governess; or, Little Female Academy (1749), edited by Candace Ward (Broadview, 2005).

William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789, 1794) (students can use any edition).

Captain Marryat, The Children of the New Forest (1847) (Wordsworth Classics, 1993).

Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857), edited by Andrew Sanders (Oxford World's Classics, 1999).

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1865 and 1871), edited by Hugh Haughton (Penguin, 1998).

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868), edited by Gregory Eiselein and Anne K. Phillips (Norton Critical Editions, 2003).

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) (Penguin, 1986).

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883), edited by Emma Letley (Oxford University Press, 1998).

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy (1911), edited by Peter Hollindale (Oxford World's Classics, 1999).

C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) (Collins, 2000).

Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom (Puffin, 1981).

Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (Scholastic, 1998).

Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy (Egmont, 2004).

Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses (Corgi, 2001).

Melvin Burgess, Doing It (Penguin, 2004).

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