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The Life of The Spider
Jean-Henri FabreLa Vie des Araignées French naturalist and entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre’s scientific and literary classic about the fascinating world of the spide...
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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 detailsPoems of Childhood
Eugene FieldPoet 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....
View full detailsThe Story of Architecture
P. Leslie WaterhouseThroughout The Ages A recounting of the history of Western architecture. Starting with the buildings of ancient Egypt and ending in early 20th cent...
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Charlotte YongeFamous 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...
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...
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R. Cadwallader SmithEyes 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...
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...
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Charles KingsleyOr, Greek Fairy Tales For My Children Kingley’s classic retelling of the Greek stories of Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The book is intended...
View full detailsThe Tale of the Muley Cow
Arthur Scott Bailey"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...
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Arthur Scott Bailey“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...
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Eva March TappanThe Middle Ages A review of life in the Middle Ages. Each chapter covers a different topic including knights, tournaments, castles, daily life, pi...
View full detailsThe Children's Book of Birds
Olive Thorne MillerWith Illustrations by James Audubon A beginners guide to the study of birds. The first book starts with basic facts about birds including their lif...
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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 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 detailsThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington IrvingThe 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...
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 detailsThe Tale of Turkey Proudfoot
Arthur Scott Bailey“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...
View full detailsThe Tale of Mistah Mule
Arthur Scott Bailey“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 ...
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Andrew LangFairy 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...
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 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 detailsEyes and No Eyes: Volume II
R. Cadwallader SmithVolume II Volume II of the Eyes and No Eyes series. The series is divided into two volumes each volume containing six books. Volume II is authored ...
View full detailsA Short Sketch of European History
H. E. MarshallThe Story of Europe An overview of European history “from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation.” The book starts with Alaric and Attila ...
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Frederick HutchinsonThe Age of Exploration An overview of the great explorers, leaders, and religious figures during the Age of Discovery in North America. Covering su...
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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 detailsRiley Child-Rhymes
James Whitcomb RileyHoosier Poet Riley Child-Rhymes contains some of James Whitcomb Riley’s best known poems such as “Little Orphant Annie,“ “The Raggedy Man,” and “Ol...
View full detailsA Apple Pie
Kate GreenawayA B C’s The A Apple Pie, or A Was an Apple Pie, nursery rhyme was a very popular method for teaching the alphabet to young children in the 19th cen...
View full detailsParadise Lost
John MiltonAn Epic Poem John Milton’s epic poem about the Fall of Man including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel, Satan, and their expulsion...
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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...
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...
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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 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...
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Maria EdgeworthOr Stories for Children A collection of moral and didactic stories for children. The tales focus on teaching virtues such as honesty, industriousne...
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 detailsThe Yellow Fairy Book
Andrew LangFairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the four...
View full detailsA Story of the Red Cross
Clara BartonGlimpses of Field Work Clara Harlowe Barton’s retelling of her founding of the American Red Cross and the subsequent disasters the Red Cross respon...
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 detailsOur Little Athenian Cousin
Julia Darrow CowlesOf Long Ago The story of Hiero, a Athenian boy, laid during the the reign of Pericles when Athens was at the zenith of her power and glory, and whe...
View full detailsThe Hound of The Baskervilles
Arthur Conan DoyleAnother Adventure of Sherlock Holmes The third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. ...
View full detailsStories of Robin Hood
H. E. MarshallTold to the Children H. E. Marshall’s retelling of the classic tales of Robin Hood for children. Including such famous characters as Robin Hood, K...
View full detailsThe Odyssey for Boys and Girls
Alfred J. ChurchTold From Homer The retelling of the Odyssey by Rev. Alfred J. Church. The book is intended as an introduction to Homer’s epic poem. The writing s...
View full detailsPatriots and Tyrants
Marion LansingMediaeval Builders of the Modern World The story of the middle ages with a focus on the development of liberty and universal rights. Both Patriots ...
View full detailsBlack Beauty
Anna SewellThe Autobiography of a Horse The first person memoirs from Black Beauty. Beginning with his days as a colt on an English farm with his mother to hi...
View full detailsOrthodoxy
G. K. ChestertonA Classic of Christian Apologetics Chesterton considered Orthodoxy as a companion to his other work, Heretics, writing it expressly in response to ...
View full detailsThe Iliad For Boys and Girls
Alfred J. ChurchTold From Homer The retelling of the Iliad by Rev. Alfred J. Church. The book is intended as an introduction to Homer’s epic poem. The writing sty...
View full detailsThe Brown Fairy Book
Andrew LangFairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the nint...
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Andrew LangFairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the sixt...
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