Young Adult Literature
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his …
The Rover Boys on the Ocean
Join the spirited Rover Boys as they embark on a daring maritime adventure in search of their kidnapped father. Setting sail on their yacht,…
Dorothy Dale At Glenwood School
The second book in the Dorothy Dale series, in which Dorothy and her friends have an unfortunate encounter, which has long-lasting implicati…
Freckles
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and peop…
Children's Short Works
Discover a delightful assortment of stories in Children's Short Works, featuring the timeless tales of renowned authors Charles Dickens and …
The House of Grey
14-year-old Monson Grey faces the same challenges that any freshman high school kid would. Difficult classes, weird teachers, food fights…gi…
The Adventures of an Ugly Girl
“Come, Dora! I shall never be ready, if you don’t make haste. They will be here in ten minutes, and my hair is not half so nice as it ought …
A Cathedral Courtship
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases…
Teddy's Button
Teddy loves to tell the story of how his father heroically died on the battlefield and guards his button jealously. But this brings contenti…
It's Like This, Cat
1964 Newbery Medal winner, It's Like This, Cat is the story of a young man, Dave Mitchell, and how he grew to maturity, helped along indirec…
Paula the Waldensian
Into the home of an interesting but self-centered family in old France comes Paula, a young orphaned cousin, from the little village of Vill…
The Windy Hill
When two children come to stay with their cousin, they immediately realize something is wrong, but no one will tell them what. Their cousin …
Little Women
This story follows the lives of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set in the tumultuous days of the American Civil war, readers grow to lo…
Dick Tracy
One of the longest running young-adult-oriented old radio shows during the golden age of radio was the widely popular "Dick Tracy."…
The Little Colonel's House Party
Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her…
Bert Wilson at the Wheel
First volume of an adventure series for young adults - Summary by kathrinee
Nancy Brandon's Mystery
Nancy spends the summer with a cousin she hardly knows who has a friend who seems to be a bad influence.Secrets, jealousy and bitterness fil…
Makers of Many Things
How are friction matches made? How do rags and trees become paper? Who makes the dishes on our tables? Published in 1916, this children's bo…
Eddie of Jackson's Gang
Eddie. That is the only name our young, musically talented hero knew for himself. After being left at a Catholic orphanage as a young child,…
Marriage
"Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness." - Alexander and…