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Cedric the Forester

Read by Lynette Caulkins

Bernard Gay Marshall

A rollicking juvenile adventure tale, this historical fiction book received the Newbery Honor award in 1922. Set in England during the early…

The Dream Coach

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Anne Parrish

The Dream Coach was named a Newbery Honor Book in 1925. Anne Parrish's original stories of dream adventures hold fairy-tale charm that is su…

The Princess of Wellesley -- Alice Freeman Palmer

In Heroines of Service

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Mary Rosetta Parkman

From time immemorial, women have served as wives, mothers and domestic organizers. But in the nineteenth century, the lives of women were ch…

Preface

In The Romance of the Romanoffs

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Joseph Martin Mccabe

The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the ex…

Chapter V, part 1

In Six Women and the Invasion

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Gabrielle Yerta and Gabrielle Yertaandmarguerite Yerta Méléra

A true tale of the wartime resilience of six Frenchwomen whose country town was invaded by the Germans during World War I. - Summary by Jael…

The Princess Who Could Not Cry

In The Rainbow Cat

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Rose Fyleman

THERE was once a cat which was not in the least like any cat you have ever seen, or I either, for the matter of that. It was a fairy cat, yo…

Introduction

In The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia

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Kellogg Durland

Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…

Chapter 29

In Regiment of Women

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Clemence Dane

Set in a small town in Edwardian England, Regiment of Women is about the relationship between two teachers at a private (and elitist) girls'…