The opera ghost makes performers at the Paris Opera House nervous. When Christine disappears, a sense of dread begins to pervade. In an ever-increasing pattern of fear and violence, the Phantom of the Opera begins to strike, but always with the young singer at the centre of his macabre desires.

Evacuated from London to Wales during the Second World War, Carrie and her brother are sent to live with the very strict Mr Evans. But in trying to heal the breach between Mr Evans and his sister, Carrie does the worst thing she ever did in her life.

'It' is a Psammead, an ancient ugly and irritable sand fairy the children find one day in a gravel pit. It grants them a wish a day, but they soon find it hard to think of sensible wishes, and get themselves into all sorts of trouble. Originally published: London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902

A werewolf video leaves Micky terrified of dogs. His mum decides that the answer to his problem is to get Micky a puppy of his own. To everyone's surprise - including Micky's - he chooses a werepuppy. But Wolfie turns out to be a very special pet.

Bobby, an active Skye terrier, adores his master Auld Jock, and when the old man dies, Bobby refuses to leave his grave in Greyfriars Churchyard in Edinburgh.

Kidnapped is the classic story of David Balfour. Left in poverty when his father dies, David goes to his uncle, but finds himself kidnapped on board a ship. David manages to escape, but is accused of murder and hunted down across the Scottish moors.

As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life.

Katy is offered the chance of a lifetime when Mrs Ashe invites her to leave their home town of Burnet in America and travel with her and little Amy to Europe.

Life seems perfect to Anne Shirley, about to marry her childhood friend Gilbert Blythe and set up home with him in her 'house of dreams'. But then tragedy strikes and it takes all Gilbert's love, Anne's own courage and the honesty of her enigmatic friend Leslie to help her overcome it. Originally published: New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1917; Lond