Historical
15 books
Historical
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Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware
This volume is the result of an avalanche of letters that, reached the author, Annie Fellows Johnston, complaining that she skipped in the Little Colonel series. To entreaties she has responded with this charming,...
7 hours 4 minutes
Action & Adventure
1.1K
Oliver Optic - Haste and Waste; The Young Pilot of Lake Champlain
The sixth and last volume of the Woodville stories contains the record of a mechanical, rather than a moral triumph, though the virtues of patience and perseverance are incidentally illustrated, and the «little...
5 hours 2 minutes
Action & Adventure
1.1K
Oliver Optic - Work and Win; Noddy Newman on a Cruise
The fourth book of the Woodville Series shares the progress of a boy whose education had been neglected, and whose moral attributes were of the lowest order, from vice and indifference to the development of a high...
5 hours 21 minutes
Historical
1.1K
Florence Morse Kingsley - Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem
Tor is a young beggar living in the city of Jerusalem during the tumultuous time of the Roman occupation. Shouts of hope are the last thing this street boy expects when he witnesses Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a...
2 hours 52 minutes
Historical
1.1K
Louisa May Alcott - Under the Lilacs (version 3, dramatic reading)
When a raggedy boy from the circus limps into the lives of the Moss family, he is unlike any child they have ever met. With his devoted and clever dog, Sancho, at his side, Ben’s amazing stunts from the big top and...
8 hours 30 minutes
Action & Adventure
1.1K
R. M. Ballantyne - Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished
A runaway carriage, a spunky little girl, and a street urchin combine on the first page of Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: a Tale of City Arab Life in a hilarious combination that you won't want to leave. This...
8 hours 43 minutes
