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469

Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook

The Bobbseys are home from their adventure on the houseboat and now they're off to visit their cousins at Meadow Brook Farm. But they haven't even arrived before they encounter a runaway boy, a runaway dog, and a...

BettyB and 10 more 3 hours 56 minutes

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463

Ottilie Wildermuth - Queen

Maggie is an orphan who depends on the charity of the farmer she lives with. She tries to be cheerful and helpful to everyone where she is. However, Maggie dreams of being a queen. But how can a poor orphan ever...

Esther ben Simonides 2 hours 4 minutes

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Children's Fiction

481

Mrs. O. F. Walton - Christie's Old Organ

Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an old barrel organ play. One night while he is listening, the organ stops and...

Esther ben Simonides 2 hours 21 minutes

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412

Hugh Walpole - Jeremy

With affectionate humor, Mr. Walpole tells the story of Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen and Mary Cole, who grow up in Polchester, a quiet English Cathedral town. There is the Jampot, who is the nurse; Hamlet, the...

David Wales 9 hours 3 minutes

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Family Life

413

Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading)

Katy Carr always gets in trouble for everything. When her mother died, she told Katy to be a mother to the little ones. But it seems like Katy can't do anything right. Her Aunt Izzie always scolds her, so one day...

4 hours 51 minutes

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480

Laura E. Howe Richards - Five Minute Stories

Another collection of poems and short stories by Laura Richards. Yes, these are all short and mostly all delightfully innocent and sweet. Some have a moral for little children, and some are just funny or poignant or...

Roohi and 21 more 5 hours 36 minutes

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Children's Fiction

445

Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge

The Bobbsey Twins are back at school after summer vacation, but Danny Rugg, the school bully, is up to mischief again--and this time he's trying to pin it onto Bert. Bert gets accused of freezing a giant snowball to...

BettyB and 5 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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437

Martha Finley - Mildred Keith

Mildred Keith has a good life in Lansdale, Ohio — family, friends and school keep her happy and busy. But when her parents announce they're all moving to Indiana, Mildred's faith is tested beyond anything she could...

Rachel 5 hours 51 minutes

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431

Gertrude Hall - Miss Ingalis

As the story begins, title character Grace Ingalis is a young woman with a middle-class socialite's upbringing who decides to marry a well-off young businessman she met mere weeks before on a winter sail to the West...

Bellona Times 8 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

531

Arthur M. Winfield - Rover Boys Out West

Despite the title, the Rover Brothers spend several chapters — over half the book — back East, against arch-nemeses Josiah Crabtree and the Baxter family. Formulaic fun was dated even by the 1940's when Orson Welles...

Bellona Times 5 hours 26 minutes

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Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

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Asa Don Dickinson - Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

This charming book has many stories that deal mostly with the holiday of Thanksgiving, perfectly suited for family listening and reading. and gathers in one volume tales of tasty turkeys, festive parties, generous...

kyegrayson and 17 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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513

Marion Ames Taggart - Little Grey House

The Grey House is grey in color and is home to the Grey family. In this, the first of the Grey House books, we are introduced to the three Grey sisters, Oswyth, 17, Roberta, 16 and 14 year old Prudence, their sensible...

Lynne T and 2 more 5 hours 25 minutes

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New

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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