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Gertrude Chandler Warner - Box-Car Children

Four children: Henry, Jess Violet and Bennie. They are living alone in a stranded boxcar. They find items they need from the dump and a stray dog whom they name Watch. Henry earns money by working for a man named Dr....

Woolly Bee and 7 more 2 hours 42 minutes

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Grace May North - Seven Sleuths' Club

Some girls from a day school started a club called Spread Sunshine Club, but change the name when they decide to find some mysteries to solve. They add another girl to their club and before they realize a mystery has...

SamR 3 hours 51 minutes

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Grace May North - Meg of Mystery Mountain

Jane Abbott, tall, graceful and languidly beautiful, passed through the bevy of girls on the wharf below Highacres Seminary with scarcely a nod for any of them. Closely following her came three other girls, each...

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Frank Gee Patchin - Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon

Yee-Haaww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again. The boys are back home, but as they are chopping wood, it is decided that they need a new adventure out west. Mr. Perkin's, Walter's dad, has suggested the Grand...

Richard Kilmer and 3 more 5 hours 16 minutes The Pony Rider Boys series

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Charles Edward Carryl - Davy and the Goblin

Eight-year-old Davy reads Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and begins to get very sleepy. Suddenly a goblin appears in the fire and takes Davy on a «believing voyage» much like Alice's own...

Frances Brown and 6 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Henrietta Hen

The Tale of Henrietta Hen is a cute children's book filled with the adventures of a hen named Henrietta. (Summary by SarahParshall)

Tom Merritt and 8 more 1 hour 37 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Rock of Chickamauga

«The Rock of Chickamauga,» presenting a critical phase of the great struggle in the west, is the sixth volume in the series, dealing with the Civil War, of which its predecessors have been «The Guns of Bull Run,» «The...

Mike Pelton and 4 more 7 hours 59 minutes The Civil War Series

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Miss Kitty Cat

The rats and the mice thought that Miss Kitty Cat was a terrible person. She was altogether too fond of hunting them. They agreed, however, that in one way it was pleasant to have her about the farmhouse. When she...

Kimberly Krause and 5 more 1 hour 38 minutes

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Gertrude Atherton - Valiant Runaways

Savage bears, a river rescue, capture by Indians, escape on wild mustangs and a revolutionary battle await the protagonists of this suspenseful adventure novel, set in California. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Lynne T 4 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Grace May North - Bobs, a Girl Detective

This is a great short chapter mystery book for girls. It is similar to Nancy Drew. Bobs is one of the four sisters whose parents die, leaving them with the responsibility of caring for themselves. They have to work...

Kimberly Krause and 8 more 4 hours 33 minutes

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Westerns

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Frank Gee Patchin - Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico

Yee-Haw!!! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! This time they are on their way to Bluewater, New Mexico, ready for whatever adventure they can find. But this time, trouble spots them on the train. Will the Pony...

Richard Kilmer and 5 more 5 hours 6 minutes The Pony Rider Boys series

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Margaret Penrose - Dorothy Dale In The City

The series continues. Dorothy Dale and the girls of Glenwood enjoy a break from school, with adventures over the Christmas holidays.(Summary by Lynne Thompson )

Lynne T 5 hours 2 minutes Dorothy Dale Series

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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