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Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel in Arizona

In The Little Colonel in Arizona the story is centered around the Ware family, who, after their husband and father has died, and due to the mother's illness, have to move from Kentucky to Arizona. Joyce now has to...

Lars Rolander 7 hours 28 minutes The Little Colonel Series

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Family

430

Mrs. O. F. Walton - Peep Behind the Scenes

Rosalie is the daughter of a traveling theater master and is envied by many young girls as she appears to live a life full of glamour, glitz, and glory. But beneath the happy smiling face is a hurting heart, a deep...

Abigail Rasmussen 6 hours 43 minutes

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Children's Fiction

438

Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel at Boarding-School

Because of the illness of her grandfahter, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being sent off to boarding school from her home in Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky. Jolly times are mixed with lessons in this...

Lars Rolander and 1 more 6 hours 54 minutes The Little Colonel Series

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Family

403

Francis J. Finn - His First and Last Appearance

The scene of the story is laid partly in Milwaukee, partly in New York. It describes the trials of the orphaned Lachance children. The boy hero is of a loving and lovable disposition and wins the hearts of all. The...

Maria Therese 4 hours 34 minutes

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Animals & Nature

468

Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel's Hero

In this sixth volume of “The Little Colonel Series” for girls, Lloyd is surprised with a gift for her twelfth birthday, of a summer trip to Europe. In Geneva she becomes friends with an old Prussian major and his Red...

Lars Rolander and 2 more 6 hours 1 minute The Little Colonel Series

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Action & Adventure

567

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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Family

487

Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel's Holidays

«What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?» they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking «Did Betty go blind?» «Did the two little Knights of Kentucky ever meet Joyce again or find...

Amanda Friday and 2 more 5 hours 13 minutes The Little Colonel Series

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Family

496

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

422

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

532

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

461

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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Family

451

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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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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