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Wild Life In The Woods and Fields
Arabella BuckleyEyes and No Eyes The first of six books in Arabella Buckley’s Eyes and No Eyes series. This book covers animals, insects, and plant life found in ...
View full detailsEnglish Fairy Tales
Joseph JacobsFolk and Fairy Tales A collection of English fairy tales compiled by Joseph Jacobs. Featuring such well-known tales as ‘Jack and the Bean Stock,’ ‘...
View full detailsFive Little Peppers and How They Grew
Margaret SidneyFive Little Peppers The first book in the Five Little Peppers series. The story introduces the five Pepper children and their widowed mother Mamsi...
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Margaret SidneyFive Little Peppers The second book in the Five Little Peppers series. The Peppers have left their ‘little brown house’ in the country and now live...
View full detailsParables from Nature
Margaret GattyGod and Nature A collection of short stories from the Victorian era written by Margaret Gatty for children. Gatty was fascinated by nature and mari...
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Jennie HallThe Vikings The story of Harald Fairhair, starting in childhood, and his many adventures as he unites Norway as their king. As the Viking populatio...
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Nathaniel HawthorneClassical Myths Eustace Bright, a Williams College student, acts as narrator retelling famous Greek myths to a group of school children. The myths ...
View full detailsThe Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo CollodiThe Tale of a Puppet The story about a mischievous marionette named Pinocchio and his poor, woodcarver father named Geppetto. Originally published ...
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George MacDonaldCourage and Honor Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a castle in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid, ...
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John BunyanFrom This World, To That Which is to Come Cited as the first novel written in English, The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most important works of...
View full detailsUnderstood Betsy
Dorothy CanfieldFrom City to Farm Elizabeth Ann, an orphan, lives a sheltered city life with her father’s Aunt Harriet and Cousin Frances. Her life is turned upsid...
View full detailsBeautiful Stories From Shakespeare
Edith NesbitThe Bard of Avon Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare is a collection of twenty stories retold by Edith Nesbit. Each play is retold in a way that is ...
View full detailsThe Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David WyssDer Schweizerische Robinson The story of a Swiss family that is shipwrecked on an island in the East Indies. Soon, the family must construct shelt...
View full detailsChaucer For Children
H. R. HaweisA Golden Key Mary Eliza Haweis’s (Mrs. H. R. Haweis's) introduction to Chaucer’s work and legacy for young readers. The book is widely credited wit...
View full detailsCaptains Courageous
Rudyard KiplingA Story of the Grand Banks Son of a wealthy railroad magnate, Harvey Cheyne, lives a pampered life until one day he is washed overboard from a tran...
View full detailsThe Children of the New Forest
Frederick MarryatNew Forest Set during the English Civil War, the story follows the Beverley children who are orphaned when their father, Colonel Beverly, is killed...
View full detailsTales From Shakespeare
Charles & Mary LambFor Children A classic retelling of Shakespeare’s plays intended to be more accessible to children. Mary Lamb was responsible for the retelling of ...
View full detailsThe Age of Fable
Thomas BulfinchBulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from antiquity including the Greeks, Romans, and others. Written for a general audience, t...
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Charlotte YongeRichard The Fearless Historical fiction based on the life of Richard I, Duke of Normandy also known as Richard the Fearless. Richard assumes the ...
View full detailsAt the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonaldThe North Wind The story of a boy named Diamond who befriends the mysterious Lady North Wind. She invites him to fly through the night with her on...
View full detailsRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas WigginSunnybrook Farm The story of Rebecca Rowena Randall who is sent to the fictional town of Riverboro, Maine to live with her two aunts after the deat...
View full detailsHans Brinker
Mary Mapes DodgeA Story of Life In Holland The story of Hans Brinker, a Dutch boy, who hopes to enter an ice skating race in order to win the grand prize: silver ...
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Johanna SpyriFor Children and Those That Love Children The story of an orphaned young girl who goes to live with her grandfather in a small village in the Swiss...
View full detailsThe King Of The Golden River
John RuskinOr, The Black Brothers Originally written in 1841 and then published in 1851 in London, The King of the Golden River quickly became a Victorian era...
View full detailsThe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe The story of Robinson Crusoe and his adventures during his time at sea including shipwrecks, pirates, mutineers, and cannibals. On...
View full detailsThe Jungle Book
Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle Book A collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling about the jungles of India. Many of the characters are animals such as Baloo the bear an...
View full detailsBob, Son of Battle
Alfred OllivantThe Last of The Gray Dogs of Kenmuir The story chronicles the rivalry between two sheepdogs, Red Wull and Bob, son of Battle, and their masters, Ad...
View full detailsMen of Iron
Howard PyleHonor and Chivalry Set in the 15th century, a young squire, Myles Falworth, seeks to become a knight and to redeem his father’s honor. Myles trains...
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Mark TwainA Tale For Young People of All Ages Set in 1547 in England, the novel tells a story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identic...
View full detailsRip Van Winkle
Washington IrvingThe Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker The story of Rip Van Winkle, a villager in colonial America who who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their ...
View full detailsStories From The Faerie Queene
Mary MacLeodThe Faerie Queene Retold A classic retelling of Edmund Spenser’s English epic poem, The Faerie Queene. The poem is one of the longest in the Englis...
View full detailsIvanhoe
Sir Walter ScottA Romance A historical fiction novel based in England during the Middle Ages. One of Sir Walter Scott’s most popular works, it has been credited wi...
View full detailsThe Age of Chivalry
Thomas BulfinchBulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from early British history during the reign of King Arthur. Written for a general audience...
View full detailsAlice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis CarrollAlice In Wonderland One of the best-known and most popular English novels authored by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. T...
View full detailsLittle Men
Louisa May AlcottLife at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys A sequel to Little Women, Little Men recounts the life of Jo Bhaer, her husband, and the various children at Plumf...
View full detailsGulliver's Travels
Jonathan SwiftTravels Into Several Remote Nations Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift's best known work and a classic of English literature. The book satir...
View full detailsThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard PyleRobin Hood and His Merry Men The story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men and their adventures in Nottinghamshire. Robin Hood is an English outlaw wh...
View full detailsA Little Princess
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Whole Story of Sara Crewe The story of Sarah Crewe who is sent to boarding school in England by her wealthy father who live in India. Sarah soo...
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Arthur Conan DoyleHundred Years’ War A historical adventure novel set in England, France, and Spain during the Hundred Years’ War against the backdrop of the campaig...
View full detailsIn Freedom's Cause
G. A. HentyA Story of Wallace and Bruce At the end of the thirteenth century, the oppressed people of Scotland rebelled against their despised English ruler, ...
View full detailsThe Bears of Blue River
Charles MajorFrontier Adventures The story of rural Indiana frontier life in the early 1800’s. Balser lives with his family in a log cabin near the Blue River....
View full detailsThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark TwainA Masterpiece of American Literature The story of Tom Sawyer, a young boy growing up along the Mississippi river in the fictional town of St. Peter...
View full detailsThrough The Looking-Glass
Lewis CarrollAnd What Alice Found There The sequel to Alice’s Adventure In Wonderland. Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a m...
View full detailsFive Children And It
Edith NesbitThe Psammead After moving from London to the countryside of Kent, a group of five siblings chance upon a Psammead while playing in a gravel pit. Th...
View full detailsPeter and Wendy
J. M. BarriePeter Pan Originally published as a play in 1904 and a novel in 1911, Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work. Both the novel and play ...
View full detailsThe Story of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh LoftingTalk to the Animals Doctor Dolittle is a respected physician living in a small English Village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. Over the years his love f...
View full detailsOliver Twist
Charles DickensOr, The Parish Boy's Progress Orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver trav...
View full detailsLegends of Charlemagne
Thomas BulfinchBulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from Middle Ages during the time of Charlemagne. Written for a general audience, the book ...
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