Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Thief in the Night" by e.w. Hornung
A.J. Raffles is a character developed by E.W. Hornung who appears in most of his short stories. Raffles is the very definition of a smooth criminal and a master cricket player. Read several of the short stories containing Raffles in the...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Colonel and the Horse Thief by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Read the full text of the short story "The Colonel and the Horse-Thief" by Rex Ellingwood Beach.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Book Thief
This Australian novel was pulished in the U.S. in 2006. This young adult fiction novel looks at the life of a young German girl growing up in Nazi Germany. Read about the characters, themes and quotations from the novel in this...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Books Authors: Rick Riordan
Read about Rick Riordan's biography the author of children's books such as The Lightning Thief with Percy Jackson on this website.
Other
Official Site of Rick Riordan: Teacher's Guides
Lots of downloadable teacher guides to accompany Rick Riordan's books.
Other
Read Riordan: Official Web Page
This is the official site for Rick Riordan which offers articles and quizzes about his books including Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Editha's Burglar by Frances Hodgson Burnett
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the illustrated children's book Editha's Burglar by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1888). It tells the story of a young girl who discovers a burglar in the house and persuades the thief to...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The False Faces by Louis Joseph Vance
This is the full text of the novel The False Faces by Louis Joseph Vance. This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respectable life when World War...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins
This is the full text of the British novel The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins in which a gentleman born in the higher ranks of life is accused of being a thief.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of John Milton
This University of Toronto site contains links to selected poetry of John Milton. The poems also contain notations.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Amateur Cracksman by e.w. Hornung
Read the full text of "The Amateur Cracksman" by E.W. Hornung about A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief in Victorian Great Britain.