Family & Relationships
Christie's Old Organ
Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an…
Helen Lester
Twelve year old Helen is determined to be a good girl, but the harder she tries, the worse her days go. Is there any hope? And what made suc…
Elsie at Nantucket
Elsie and her family travel to Nantucket Island to spend the summer. The Raymond children and others learn important lessons. After a deligh…
When Shadows Die
A sequel to "Her Mothers Secret" and "Love's Bitterest Cup" (Bridget Gaige)
Rilla of Ingleside
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…
Alice Adams
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20…
Sons of the Covenant
Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' c…
Wives and Daughters
Molly and her father have lived alone since the death of her mother. Now Mr Gibson decides it will be in Molly's best interests for him to m…
Aunt Jane's Hero
Aunt Jane's Hero presents to the reader a hero's journey and romance different from the cliché, addressing not an idealized picture o…
What Sami Sings With The Birds
Old Mary Ann has done her best to bring up her son on her own. Like other relatives, her son has a longing to travel off over the mountains.…
Jeremy
With affectionate humor, Mr. Walpole tells the story of Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen and Mary Cole, who grow up in Polchester, a quiet …
The Little Colonel
The scene of this story is laid in Kentucky. Its heroine is a small girl, who is known as the Little Colonel, on account of her fancied rese…
Peter and Wendy
Peter and Wendy tells the classic story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland wi…
Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm
Betty Gordon found herself an orphan at age twelve. She became the ward of her uncle, Richard Gordon. She immediately came to love her uncle…
They and I
A man and his three children leave the “Little Mother” at home in the city and set up temporary housekeeping in a country cottage to supervi…
The Christmas Child
A short sweet, yet sad, Christmas story about forgiveness, but especially about loving others for who they are and not for who we want them …
The Bobbsey Twins at Home
This is the eighth book in the "Bobbsey Twins" series. In it Flossie and Freddie find, in a big snow storm, the lost father of Tom…
The Bobbsey Twins at Cloverbank
Come along with The Bobbsey Twins for more adventures, as they spend a summer on a farm!This is book number 19 in the series. (Summary by Ma…
The Cinder Pond
Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The facto…
Mothering on Perilous
Cecelia Loring is alone in the world after the death of her mother and has come to the Kentucky mountains in search of work. Although very d…