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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Fair Barbarian

The setting is a small English village in the 19th century. When her niece shows up on her doorstep unexpectedly, a quiet spinster finds her life turned upside down. (Summary by Linda Andrus)

Linda Andrus and 13 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Cornelia Meigs - Windy Hill

When two children come to stay with their cousin, they immediately realize something is wrong, but no one will tell them what. Their cousin is strangely altered: nervous, preoccupied, hardly aware of their existence....

Peter Eastman 5 hours 33 minutes

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Romance

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Eleanor H. Porter - Dawn

Dawn (also known in England as «Keith’s Dark Tower»), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going blind. It is hard for him and his family. Most of the book deals with their ways —...

alwpoe and 6 more 8 hours 20 minutes

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General Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Rose in Bloom

Opening several years after the close of «Eight Cousins», we find Rose coming home fresh from a voyage overseas, to find much changed about her. Now of a marriageable aged and heiress to a fortune, Rose finds...

Maria Therese 8 hours 58 minutes

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Louisa May Alcott - Eight Cousins (Version 2)

This is the story of Rose Campbell, a rich but lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and sent to live with her maiden aunts. When Rose’s guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad he takes over her...

Maria Therese 6 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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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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Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel's House Party

Lloyd Sherman, the «Little Colonel», is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her beautiful home in Kentucky. The children come from very different homes, but fall into...

Lois C. Johnson and 8 more 5 hours 24 minutes The Little Colonel Series

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Jean Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs Version 2

Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes. Jerusha's unusual first name was...

Jo Karabasz 4 hours 31 minutes

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Francis J. Finn - Tom Playfair; or Making a Start

Tom Playfair; Or Making a Start is a book by a Roman Catholic priest, originally published in 1890, and written for youth ages 9-12. The story opens with 10-year-old Tom Playfair being quite a handful for his...

Maria Therese 6 hours 3 minutes

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Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins or Merry Days Indoors and Out

The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the Stratemeyer Syndicate's longest-running series of children's novels, penned under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope. The first of 72 books...

jedopi and 7 more 3 hours 39 minutes

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Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel

The scene of this story is laid in Kentucky. Its heroine is a small girl, who is known as the Little Colonel, on account of her fancied resemblance to an old-school Southern gentleman, whose fine estate and old family...

Maria Therese 1 hour 42 minutes The Little Colonel Series

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Hans Aanrud - Lisbeth Longfrock or Sidsel Sidsærkin

Lisbeth Longfrock — (Sidsel Sidsærkin in its original Norwegian) was seen by the author as a book written for adults, telling the story of a young girl growing up in a farming district in a steep-sided Norwegian...

Annise 3 hours 28 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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