A Christmas Carol

A newly illustrated edition with reader's notes for tricky words. Complete and unabridged.

On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge’s dead business partner comes knocking—quite literally. But Marley’s rattling chains are only the beginning of a night Scrooge would rather not believe.

Ebenezer Scrooge sits alone in a fog-choked London counting-house, guarding his coal as fiercely as his money. Christmas brings carols, warm invitations, and calls to help the poor—and Scrooge turns them all away. Then Marley’s ghost appears, dragging a chain forged from the choices he made in life, with a warning Scrooge cannot ignore: three spirits are on their way. They will lead him through memories and visions that may reveal what his cold heart has cost him—and what could still be lost. Can Scrooge face the spirits before the final bell tolls?

This complete and unabridged edition of Charles Dickens’s timeless story includes reader’s notes to help young readers untangle tricky words.

At Wise Minds Press we believe the years between childhood and the teenage leap are a golden window: curiosity runs high, vocabulary explodes and a single page can spark a lifetime of possibility. We were those wide‑eyed readers once—hungry for challenge, eager to roam far‑flung worlds, and guided by parents and teachers who knew the right story could light the path ahead. Today we honor that legacy by bringing time‑tested classics to young readers complete and unabridged, with reader's notes for the tricky words, and original illustrations for Grades 4‑7 (Ages 9‑12).

Our mission is simple: to place in every young reader's hands a bridge to literature's greatest adventures, turning boundless imagination into confidence, empathy, and the readiness to write their own remarkable futures.