A Gentle Feast
Fifty Famous Stories Retold
James BaldwinTime-Honored Stories Intended as an introduction to famous stories from Western history and lore for young children. Famous stories such as King A...
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...
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 ...
View full detailsThe Pilgrim's Progress
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 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...
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Booker T. WashingtonAn Autobiography The autobiography of the American educator, Booker T. Washington. Washington chronicles more than forty years of his life covering...
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 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin FranklinA 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...
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 detailsThe White Company
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 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 detailsThe Cat of Bubastes
G. A. HentyA Tale of Ancient Egypt A young prince named Amuba is taken as a slave by the Egyptians after his father, and king of the Rebu people, is killed in...
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Louisa May AlcottMeg, Jo, Beth, and Amy The story of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy —and their passage from childhood to womanhood. The novel is loos...
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Robert Louis StevensonOr The Mutiny of The Hispaniola A coming-of-age adventure novel narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. The book had an enormous influence ...
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Charles DickensIt was the best of times... Dicken’s best-known work of historical fiction and regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. The novel tel...
View full detailsBeric the Briton
G. A. HentyA Story of the Roman Invasion The story of Beric, a young British chieftain, who with his fellow tribesmen bristle under Roman Rule during the reig...
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G. A. HentyWith Cortez in Mexico Set during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century. The story follows a young Englishman, Roger, w...
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