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The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall’s history of North America for children. Starting with the Viking exploration and brief...

Courage and Honor Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a castle in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid, ...

Der Schweizerische Robinson The story of a Swiss family that is shipwrecked on an island in the East Indies.  Soon, the family must construct shelt...

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

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...

From 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...

The 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 ...

Five Little Peppers The fifth book in the Five Little Peppers Series that follows Joel Pepper. Joel is the most rambunctious of the Pepper clan. He...

From 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...

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

A History of English Literature H. E. Marshall guides the reader through the history of English literature starting in the early middle ages and en...

For Children A classic retelling of Shakespeare’s plays intended to be more accessible to children. Mary Lamb was responsible for the retelling of ...

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

Retold From Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques” Mrs. Stawell’s retelling of Fabre’s classic 10 volume series “Souvenirs Entmologieques.” A condensed...

Shown To The Children Glady Wynne’s overview of Western architectural history written for children. The book covers Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Norman...

A 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...

A History of Greece A collection of stories, myths, and histories about the Ancient Greeks from the earliest known inhabitants until Greece is conq...

New Forest Set during the English Civil War, the story follows the Beverley children who are orphaned when their father, Colonel Beverly, is killed...

“The cat scratched me” Spot told him. “I was teasing her and she wasn't at all nice about it.” Here is the endearing tale of Old Dog Spot and his e...

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 seco...

An Autobiography The autobiography of the American educator, Booker T. Washington. Washington chronicles more than forty years of his life covering...

Homeric Legends Andrew Lang’s recounting of the wars between the Greeks and the people of Troy. Featuring such renowned characters as Paris, Helen ...

A Nursery-Ryme Book Best known for her work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, Sing-Song: A Nursery-Rhyme Book was received with great praise from cri...

"What a worthless fellow that old dog is!" she thought. "This barn is full of mice! I don't believe he has caught one in all the years he has lived...

A 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 ...

Bulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from antiquity including the Greeks, Romans, and others. Written for a general audience, t...

A History of Rome A collection of stories, myths, and histories about the Romans from the earliest known inhabitants until the fall of the Western ...

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

Penny Whistles A collection of poetry for children by Scottish poet Robert Louis Stevenson.  The poems were first published under the title Penny W...

The 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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...