Action & Adventure

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Ellen C. Babbitt - More Jataka Tales

The continued success of the «Jataka Tales,» as retold and published ten years ago, has led to this second and companion volume. Who that has read or told stories to children has not been lured on by the subtle...

Kimberly Krause and 7 more 1 hour 28 minutes

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459

Louis Arundel - Motor Boat Boys' River Chase

The Motor Boat Boys, by Louis Arundel, is a series of adventure books for boys The series featured six teen-aged boys of the Motor Boat Club, and their adventures on various waterways. This is the sixth book in the...

Lynne T 5 hours 3 minutes

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533

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland (Drama)

A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version, Alice goes through the looking glass and encounters a variety of strange and wonderful...

1 hour 40 minutes

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514

Carolyn Wells - Eight Girls and a Dog

A book about eight girls who are members of the Blue Ribbon Cooking Club. Timmy Loo is their dog, who's always looking for a little scrap of food. He's cute and energetic. The girls decide it's time for a vacation and...

Kimberly Krause 4 hours 7 minutes

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540

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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488

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...

SamR 6 hours 27 minutes

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495

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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594

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

539

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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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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