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Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea - Laura E. Howe Richards
Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were talking over the war, as soldiers and sailors love to do, and somebody said: "Who, of all the workers in the...
The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy - Sarah FIELDING
The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy - Sarah FIELDING
- Author: Sarah FIELDING
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General / School
The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (published 1749) by Sarah Fielding is the first full-length novel written for children, and a significant work of 18th-century children's literature. (Wikipedia) It's about a boarding school for girls and...
Chronicles of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Chronicles of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General
Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery, related to the Anne of Green Gables series. It features a number of stories relating to the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, and was first published in 1912. (Summary...
Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children - Flora J. COOKE
Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children - Flora J. COOKE
- Author: Flora J. COOKE
- Genre: General
Written for first through third graders, this book aims to expand not only the imagination but the vocabulary. For listeners following along with the text, please note the stories are read in order of the categories listed in the table of contents....
Our Little Jewish Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Our Little Jewish Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Author: Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Genre: General
In whatever direction you may travel,βnorth, south, east, or west,βyou will doubtless meet some of your little black-eyed Jewish cousins. They live among us here in America. They also dwell in the countries far away across the wide ocean.Why are...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General
The timeless story of the Wizard Of Oz. Follow Dorothy as she leaves Kansas for Oz on a cyclone. She meets many strange, and wonderful people and creatures along the way. Enjoy it again with your children and family. L. Frank Baum's classic story...
Secrets of the Woods - William J. Long
Secrets of the Woods - William J. Long
- Author: William J. Long
- Genre: General / Nature
The unique merit of this nature student rests in his fascinating style of writing, which invariably interests young and old; for without this element his pioneer work in the realm of nature would now be familiar only to scientists, introducing...
The Story of a White Rocking Horse - Laura Lee Hope
The Story of a White Rocking Horse - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: General
The White Rocking Horse is another of the wonderful, magical toys who were made in Santa's workshop in North Pole Village. They "make believe" come alive, but only when no people are around to see them, and they have all sorts of adventures! This is...
His Big Opportunity - Amy LE FEUVRE
His Big Opportunity - Amy LE FEUVRE
- Author: Amy LE FEUVRE
- Genre: General / Religion / Christian Fiction
Dudley and Rob were taught in Sunday School that they should use the opportunities God gives to help others. Ever since, they have been looking for 'their big opportunity' to do good for somebody. - Summary by Adele de Pignerolles...
Saxon and Norman - Amice MACDONELL
Saxon and Norman - Amice MACDONELL
- Author: Amice MACDONELL
- Genre: Historical Fiction / General / Drama
Edward the Confessor is very weak and will die soon. But with no son to succeed him, who will gain the throne? The common folk and loyal Saxon barons in England want Harold, while the Norman barons and the people in Normandy, France want Duke...
Peggy Raymond's Vacation (or Friendly Terrace Transplanted) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
Peggy Raymond's Vacation (or Friendly Terrace Transplanted) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: General
Sequel to The Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success). As the summer opens the girls fan themselves on the porch, wishing for a get away. As it happens, opportunity knocks, leading them into a country vacation along with a few more...
Richard I - Jacob Abbott
Richard I - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it...
Captains of Industry - James PARTON
Captains of Industry - James PARTON
- Author: James PARTON
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them usually gives. Such men are the...
A Little Book for a Little Cook - L. P. HUBBARD
A Little Book for a Little Cook - L. P. HUBBARD
- Author: L. P. HUBBARD
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General
This charming little book compiles together a number of recipes, set out in an easy to understand manner, along with a poetic story about the stages of bread production. This book was produced as a promotional for a flour production company called...
George Washington - Calista McCabe COURTENAY
George Washington - Calista McCabe COURTENAY
- Author: Calista McCabe COURTENAY
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
In this biography for young people, Calista McCabe Courtenay takes the reader from George Washington the surveyor to his early military career, first as a colonel in the Virgina militia and then as a member of General Braddock'a staff during the...
Famous Men of Greece - John Henry HAAREN
Famous Men of Greece - John Henry HAAREN
- Author: John Henry HAAREN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General / Biography & Autobiography
Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this time. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)...
The Little Colonel's Hero - Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Colonel's Hero - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Family / General
In this sixth volume of βThe Little Colonel Seriesβ for girls, Lloyd is surprised with a gift for her twelfth birthday, of a summer trip to Europe. In Geneva she becomes friends with an old Prussian major and his Red Cross dog, a St. Bernard named...
A Little Princess (Version 3) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess (Version 3) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General
A Little Princess is a classic of children's literature by the author of The Secret Garden. Seven-year-old Sara Crewe comes to London to attend Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, where she must live apart from her adored father. Sara...
Sky Island (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
Sky Island (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General
A little girl (Trot) and her friend (Cap'n Bill) team up with a young boy named Button-Bright. Button-Bright had found a magical umbrella in his attic. He meets the kind girl and sailor and they are transported to a different world in the sky where...
Northern Trails, Book 2 - William J. Long
Northern Trails, Book 2 - William J. Long
- Author: William J. Long
- Genre: General / Animals
The reader who follows these trails will find them leading into a new country, a land of space and silence where it is good to be, away up among the mountains and woods and salmon rivers and mossy barren grounds of Labrador and Newfoundland."...
The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln - Wayne WHIPPLE
The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln - Wayne WHIPPLE
- Author: Wayne WHIPPLE
- Genre: General
This is a careful and fascinating collection of interviews with people who knew Lincoln as a boy and young man. A glimpse into the type of person he was from the very beginning. "All the world loves a lover"βand Abraham Lincoln loved everybody. With...
Historical Tales, Volume VII: Spanish - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Volume VII: Spanish - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: General / Middle Ages/Middle History / Early Modern
Volume VII of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This seventh volume covers the history of Spain from before the Moorish conquest to the loss of overseas territories at the end of the...
Letters to His Children - Theodore Roosevelt
Letters to His Children - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: General / Letters
The strong, vigorous, exalted character of a doting father who loved playing with his children and their pets, even while serving as the President of the United States, stands revealed in this selection of letters he wrote his children throughout...
A Child's Book of the Garden: The Things in Our Garden - Arthur Ransome
A Child's Book of the Garden: The Things in Our Garden - Arthur Ransome
- Author: Arthur Ransome
- Genre: General
This book is part of the authorβs "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its target audience and subject matter. The book is fun and charming, even for adults. Arthur Michell Ransome was an English...
Dorothy Dale - A Girl of Today - Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale - A Girl of Today - Margaret Penrose
- Author: Margaret Penrose
- Genre: Action & Adventure / General
Dorothy Dale is the daughter of an old Civil War veteran who is running a weekly newspaper in a small Eastern town. Her sunny disposition, her fun-loving ways and her trials and triumphs make clean, interesting and fascinating reading. The Dorothy...
The Emerald City of Oz (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
The Emerald City of Oz (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General
Oh My Goodness! What a lot of incredible adventures are packed into this epic. The evil gnome king plots to destroy Oz and enslave it's people; evil creatures from many places are enlisted in this dastardly plan that has every chance of success....
Between the Larch-woods and the Weir - Flora Klickmann
Between the Larch-woods and the Weir - Flora Klickmann
- Author: Flora Klickmann
- Genre: General
Flora Klickmann, a writer for the Girls' Own Paper and The Flower-Patch Among the Hills, brings us another charming volume, combining nature description, anecdote, autobiography, religion, and her own brand of humor in these observations based on...
Love's Bitterest Cup - E.D.E.N. Southworth
Love's Bitterest Cup - E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Genre: General / Published 1800 -1900
The sequel to "Her Mother's Secret". A wedding between Le and Odalite is rudely interrupted by Angus Anglesea, coming to claim his bride, or at least to keep her from marrying another. The Forces struggle to find justice against Angus Anglesea, even...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 01, Nov. 4, 1879 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 01, Nov. 4, 1879 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short works / General
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories,fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, and more for children. Published by Harper...
The Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old - Various
The Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General
A selection of famous tales selected and re-worked for a junior audience. Stories are taken from Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Shakespearean plays, Pilgrim's Progress, Ivanhoe, and The Startling Adventures Of Baron Munchausen...
A Child's Book Of The Seasons - Arthur Ransome
A Child's Book Of The Seasons - Arthur Ransome
- Author: Arthur Ransome
- Genre: General
This book is part of the authorβs "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its target audience and subject matter. The book is fun and charming, even for adults. Arthur Michell Ransome was an English...
Toni, the Little Woodcarver - Johanna Spyri
Toni, the Little Woodcarver - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: General
Toni is a little boy who discovers a love for woodcarving. When tragedy strikes and his father dies, Toni does all he can to help his mother Elsbeth. He sets his dream aside to become a woodcarver when the cost to pursue it is out of their means....
Historic Adventures: Tales from American History - Rupert S. HOLLAND
Historic Adventures: Tales from American History - Rupert S. HOLLAND
- Author: Rupert S. HOLLAND
- Genre: General
This is a collection of early American stories, interesting read. (Summary by sidhu177)...
Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: General
Pollyanna tells the story of Pollyanna Whittier, a young girl who goes to live with her wealthy Aunt Polly after her father's death. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers around what she calls "The Glad Game": she always tries to find something to...
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: General
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with friends Anne Pierson, Nora...
Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General
Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he explains their meaning and fascinating history. What is the true story of Little Boy Blue? Why was Mary...
Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon - Laura E. Howe Richards
Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: Family / General
There are five of these children, and I call them my Five Mice; and the queer house that they live in I call the Mouse-trap. They are such funny children! I watch them sometimes all day long, their pranks are so amusing; and then when night comes, I...
The White Elephant And Other Tales from Old India Retold - Georgene FAULKNER
The White Elephant And Other Tales from Old India Retold - Georgene FAULKNER
- Author: Georgene FAULKNER
- Genre: Short Stories / Family / General
This book is a collection of short stories from India. - Summary by sid...
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General
Dorothy is swallowed by an earthquake! And that is just the start of Dorothy's adventures in this exciting and fun book. She and her kitten, Eureka are on their way home and stop to visit a relative in California. But the earthquake opens the ground...
Mary Queen of Scots - Jacob Abbott
Mary Queen of Scots - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it...