Children's Fiction
Adventures of a Brownie
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Adventures of a Brownie follows the life of a brownie who lives in a family's coal cellar and the adventures he gets into with the members o…
Holiday House
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Catherine Sinclair
Extremely popular when it was published, this book was one of the first to include fairy tales which were not only didactic but also enjoyab…
Our Little Canadian Cousin
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Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald
In "Our Little Canadian Cousin," the author's intention is to tell, in a general way and in one defined local setting, the story o…
Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's
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Laura Lee Hope
This book is the first part of the Six Little Bunkers series, written using the pseudonym of Laura Lee Hope. It follows the lives of the Bu…
Anyhow Stories
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Lucy Clifford
A collection of stories and poems for children by British novelist, journalist, and playwright Lucy Lane Clifford, better known during her l…
Captain Ted
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Mary T. Waggaman
When tragedy hits his family, in the form of a sudden illness to his father, young Teddy Thornton is forced to leave school and find work to…
Bunyip Land
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George Manville Fenn
Joe Carstairs is a boy on a farm in Australia. His father is a keen naturalist who, some years before had set off for New Guinea in search o…
Bob the Castaway
Read by Nigel Boydell
Frank V. Webster
Frank V Webster was a pseudonym controlled by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the first book packager of books aimed at children. This pseudonym …
The Story of Wool
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Sara Ware Bassett
Mr. Clark and Donald spend a year out west to the Crescent Ranch in Idaho learning about raising sheep. (summary by David O)
Young Adults Short Works Collection
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Various
LibriVox’s Young Adults Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 9 short works of Young Adult fiction in the public domain read by a grou…
The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island
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Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey twins are off to spend a summer full of fun and adventures on Blueberry Island. They will encounter a cave, and gypsies, and oth…
Danger at the Drawbridge
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The groom fails to show up for his wedding at a mysterious old estate, and Penny Parker is there to solve the mystery! (Summary by Amanda Le…
The Blue Bird for Children
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Maurice Maeterlinck
One of the strongest pieces of imaginative writing for children that the past decade has produced and one of the most delicate and beautiful…
The Upward Path
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Various
From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…
The Carved Lions
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Mary Louisa Molesworth
When two life sized carved lions from the east are given as a gift to an English household, the children of the house are enchanted, especia…
Dave Dashaway, Air Champion
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Roy Rockwood and Weldon Cobb
Never was there a more clever young aviator than Dave Dashaway, and all up-to-date youths will be will surely wish to hear about about him. …
Ring o' Roses
Read by Larysa Jaworski
L. Leslie Brooke
A collection of Classical children's nursery rhymes. Many familiar, a few unfamiliar, all simple and easy for younger children.
Baseball Joe at Yale
Read by Donald Cummings
Howard R. Garis and Lester Chadwick
"Baseball Joe" Matson's great ambition is to become a professional baseball pitcher. The Baseball Joe series follows his career as…
The Story of the Mikado
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W. S. Gilbert
The Mikado is the ninth of the 14 Gilbert and Sullivan musical collaborations. It opened in 1885, had the second longest run for any work of…
The Blind Brother
Read by Donald Cummings
Homer Greene
This is the first book written by Homer Greene, whose primary occupation was lawyer. It tells of 14-year-old Tom Taylor, and his 12-year-old…