Boys

Or, 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...

Tom Swift Series Tom Swift lives in fictional Shopton, New York with his father Barton Swift, the founder of Swift Construction Company. Tom is kno...

The 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...

Sleepy-Time Tales This Series of animal stories for children from four to eight years old, illuminates the adventures of the four-footed creatures ...

McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader McGuffey Readers are a series of graded primers for grade levels 1-6. The readers were among the first textbooks i...

Tales From Scandinavian Mythology A classic retelling of the Scandinavian myths. The book includes many famous stories and characters such as Thor,...

Down East Follow The Rover Boys – Tom, Sam, & Dick – during their adventures Down East. The Rover Boys’ lives are full of escapades, practical ...

Animal Stories Stories about our animal neighbors found in the home and yard. Each chapter is a story about a different animal including a kitten, ...

Robinson Crusoe The story of Robinson Crusoe and his adventures during his time at sea including shipwrecks, pirates, mutineers, and cannibals.  On...

McGuffey’s Eclectic Sixth Reader McGuffey Readers are a series of graded primers for grade levels 1-6. The readers were among the first textbooks i...

Honor 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...

Volume I Volume I of the Eyes and No Eyes series. The series is divided into two volumes each volume containing six books. Volume I is authored by ...

The Adventure Continues The sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, Princess Irene and Curdie are now a little older and must overthrow a set of cor...

Alice In Wonderland One of the best-known and most popular English novels authored by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. T...

"To think," she quavered,"that my littlest child spent the night out of doors, with a bear prowling about the neighborhood! And I slept through it ...

The Boy Guardian The story of Jack Harding, a twelve-year-old boy living in New York City, who finds a baby girl on the doorstep of his family home...

A Brave Boy’s Fight For Fortune Herbert Carr is the son of a war widow in the small rural town of Wayneboro. After his mother’s position as postmas...

A 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...

Wood Folk Series Book III in a series of nature books which describe the life, habitat, and behaviors of various woodland creatures by naturalist a...

“I hope,” he snapped, “you don't take me for a yearling. Just because I’m a pony—and small—you needn't think I'm an infant. Why, I'm five years old...

“No!” said their mother. “We're well rid of him. He has been more trouble to me than all the rest of you.... To tell the truth, I never liked him v...

The 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...

Astronomy The lives and discoveries of the Great Astronomers of history. The book covers astronomers such as Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo, N...

La Vie des Araignées French naturalist and entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre’s scientific and literary classic about the fascinating world of the spide...

A 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...

Throughout The Ages A recounting of the history of Western architecture. Starting with the buildings of ancient Egypt and ending in early 20th cent...

Poet of Childhood A collection of poems by Eugene Field who is well known for his whimsical, yet sometimes serious, poems for children. Born in St....

Famous Deeds A retelling of such famous stories as The Battle of Thermopylae, Regulus, The Battle of the Blackwater, and Fort St. Elmo. “It is inte...

Eyes and No Eyes The fifth of six books in the Eyes and No Eyes series Volume II by R. Cadwallader Smith. This book covers animals as they raise th...

A Tale of The Crusades The story of Cuthbert de Lance, a teenage page for an English nobleman, as he follows King Richard to the Holy Land during t...

The Haps and Mishaps of Harry Vane The story of orphaned Harry Vane who decides to runaway from his guardian and older second cousin due to his har...

The 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...

Bulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from early British history during the reign of King Arthur. Written for a general audience...

Or, Greek Fairy Tales For My Children Kingley’s classic retelling of the Greek stories of Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The book is intended...

"It won't hurt him to hunt for me now and then,"she told herself."A little work is good for a boy." The favorite farm animal of young Johnnie Green...

“When I run, why do you follow me if you don't wish to?” he inquired at last. “I don't know,” the old lady confessed. “…I just have to go along wit...

The Middle Ages A review of life in the Middle Ages. Each chapter covers a different topic including knights, tournaments,  castles, daily life, pi...

With Illustrations by James Audubon A beginners guide to the study of birds. The first book starts with basic facts about birds including their lif...

The Fortunes of Robert Rushton Robert Rushton is a poor boy working in a factory in the country town of Millville. He supports his widowed mother w...

Le Tour Du Monde Rich British gentleman Phileas Fogg and his valet, Frenchman Jean Passepartout, accept a wager of £20,000 to circumnavigate the gl...

The Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker The story of Rip Van Winkle, a villager in colonial America who who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their ...

A Great American The life of Benjamin Franklin as told by himself. The autobiography covers Franklin's early life, work as a printer, travel to Eur...

Hundred Years’ War A historical adventure novel set in England, France, and Spain during the Hundred Years’ War against the backdrop of the campaig...

The Headless Horseman A Gothic story set in the countryside of Tarry Town whose secluded glen is known for it’s ghosts and haunting atmosphere.  Ic...

Robin 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...

“This will never do," Turkey Proudfoot muttered to himself. “No doubt I could whip all six of them; but they'd be likely to pull some of my tail fe...

“But don’t you go to worryin’ yourself ‘bout work. I kin show you plenty tricks to git outer workin’.” When Mistah Mule shows up on Farmer Green’s ...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the thir...