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Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Lucy Aikin - Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable

All the excitement, danger, heartbreaks and triumphs of this well known story, but without the big words. Lucy Aikin, an accomplished writer and writing as Mary Godolphin, accomplishes this with apparent ease in this...

Gregory Eccles and 5 more 2 hours 13 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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George Manville Fenn - Cutlass and Cudgel

Based around the crew of cutter HMS White Hawk, this is a tale of smuggling in the early 19th century off the coast of Wessex. The midshipman of the cutter is taken hostage by the smugglers and is befriended by a...

Rebecca Dittman and 7 more 8 hours 59 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Road to Oz (Version 2)

Dorothy and Toto set out to help the Shaggy Man (who really is quite shaggy) and end up lost, following a strange road. Along the way they meet Button Bright, a little boy who is not really very bright at all, The...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 20 minutes Oz books

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Children's Fiction

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Richard Harding Davis - Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote of which a boy would not some day come to feel the appeal. But there are...

David Wales 4 hours 57 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Ozma of Oz (version 3)

Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 11 minutes Oz books

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Children's Fiction

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Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp

A school girl story about two Illinois teens and the adventures they have with family,friends and the chance to go to a boarding school in Michigan in the early 1920's. (Summary by Linda Andrus)

Linda Andrus and 5 more 5 hours 44 minutes

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J. M. Barrie - Peter and Wendy

Peter and Wendy tells the classic story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian...

Susan de Raadt and 4 more 4 hours 59 minutes

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E. Nesbit - Five Children and It (Version 2)

This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known...

Jenny Lundak 6 hours 17 minutes

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King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys & Girls

Children's Fiction

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Henry Gilbert - King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys & Girls

This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl who loves adventures. (Introduction by Henry Gilbert)

April Gonzales and 8 more 10 hours 8 minutes

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Brother Ernest Ryan - Eddie of Jackson's Gang

Eddie. That is the only name our young, musically talented hero knew for himself. After being left at a Catholic orphanage as a young child, at the age of nine he is unwittingly adopted into a gang of thieves. Will he...

Maria Therese 3 hours 42 minutes

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Mary T. Waggaman - Captain Ted

When tragedy hits his family, in the form of a sudden illness to his father, young Teddy Thornton is forced to leave school and find work to help support his family. Without his realization he is thrown into a world...

Maria Therese 3 hours 39 minutes

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When Lighthouses are Dark: a Story of a Lake Superior Island

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Ethel C. Brill - When Lighthouses are Dark: a Story of a Lake Superior Island

The story of four children stranded on a Lake Superior island. They take refuge in a deserted lighthouse hoping to survive the winter. (Summary by Betsie Bush)

Betsie Bush 6 hours 54 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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