(ZT)Don't forget this set has lots for boys too:

The Great Illustrated Classics series offers easy to read abridgements of well known classics, featuring large print and illustrations. The series is targeted for younger readers, but the writing style is suitable for adult readers as well. Currently there are 69 titles.

Occasionally, books in the series will steer far away from their source materials. The GIC for H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, for instance, has an entire chapter that does not appear in the book, substantially changing the ending.


Titles in the series

* Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
* Aesop's Fables
* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
* Anne of Green Gables
* Around the World in Eighty Days
* Beauty and the Beast & Other Stories
* Black Beauty
* The Call of the Wild
* Captains Courageous
* A Christmas Carol
* Christmas Stories
* Cinderella & Other Stories
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* David Copperfield
* Dracula
* Frankenstein
* Great Expectations
* Grimm's Fairy Tales
* Gulliver's Travels
* Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
* Heidi
* The Hound of the Baskervilles
* The House of the Seven Gables
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* The Invisible Man
* Ivanhoe
* Jane Eyre
* Journey to the Center of the Earth
* The Jungle Book
* Kidnapped
* King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
* King Solomon's Mines
* The Last of the Mohicans
* The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
* The Little Mermaid & Other Stories
* A Little Princess
* Little Women
* Man in the Iron Mask
* The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
* Moby-Dick
* The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty
* Oliver Twist
* Peter Pan
* The Phantom of the Opera
* The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Pollyanna
* Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Terror
* Pride and Prejudice
* The Prince and the Pauper
* Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
* The Red Badge of Courage
* Robinson Crusoe
* The Secret Garden
* Sleeping Beauty & Other Stories
* Snow White & Other Stories
* Stories from the Bible
* The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
* The Swiss Family Robinson
* A Tale of Two Cities
* The Three Musketeers
* The Time Machine
* Treasure Island
* Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
* The War of the Worlds
* White Fang
* The Wind in the Willows
* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

NOTE: many thanks to  PoorKids? who provide this great list of reading material...