Historical
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Historical Fiction
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Frederick Marryat - Children of the New Forest (version 2)
The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley...
12 hours 49 minutes
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Alice Morse Earle - Child Life in Colonial Days
The accounts of oldtime child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the attitude of the child, but from that of his parents, guardians, and friends. The...
11 hours 57 minutes
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Eva K. Betz - Priest on Horseback-Father Farmer: 1720-1786
A historical novel for children, which tells the story of several months in the life of the then famous Father Farmer, as he traveled a Mass circuit in Pre-Revolutionary, Colonial America. He faced much danger and...
3 hours 20 minutes
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Charles Alexander Eastman - Indian Child Life
The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (the last 7 chapters). This is very different from the slanted way the white man...
2 hours 43 minutes
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Joseph A. Altsheler - Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky
This is the story of Henry Ware, a young boy living in the wilds of the Kentucky frontier of the 1700's. The story follows Henry as he helps to establish a frontier outpost, is captured by an Indian tribe, and...
6 hours 16 minutes
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Alice Turner Curtis - Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the civil war. She loves her new home, and her dear friends. However, political tensions are rising,...
3 hours 52 minutes
