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George MacDonald - Sir Gibbie

These are the adventures of Sir Gibbie through the Scotland moors. Not being able to read or speak, Gibbie survives on the streets without a mother and having an alcoholic father. Yet, he wins the hearts of his...

Mary Ann Weathers and 12 more 18 hours 1 minute

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Action & Adventure Fiction

509

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (version 5)

Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of «buccaneers and buried gold». Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is a tale noted for its atmosphere, characters and action, and...

Kara Shallenberg 6 hours 34 minutes

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Amice MacDonell - Robin Hood

One May Day, Robin Hood and his Merry Men sit in Sherwood Forest, waiting for a traveller to share their dinner. Enter a distraught Knight with his fair daughter Marian, who owe money to the Sheriff of Nottingham, and...

1 hour 4 minutes

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530

R. M. Ballantyne - Fighting the Flames

Frank Willders is a brave young member of the London Fire Brigade — Willie is his mischievous but helpful younger brother. The two of them encounter a cast of unforgettable characters as Frank and his companions...

Rachel and 7 more 9 hours 6 minutes

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453

Charlotte Maria Tucker - Spanish Cavalier

When his father dies, Lucius Lepine goes to Spain as a clerk. His fellow clerk, Don Aguilera, doesn't come to work one day. Lucius is worried, he has heard rumors of what has happened to Aguilera. What has happened?...

Esther ben Simonides 4 hours 56 minutes

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Historical Fiction

518

Annie Fellows Johnston - Joel, a Boy of Galilee

Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and tells him the reason that he is so kind is because of a boy from his hometown...

Esther ben Simonides 3 hours 53 minutes

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Historical Fiction

735

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...

Nick Whitley 12 hours 49 minutes

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Historical Fiction

440

Allen French - Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow

Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neighbor. Outlawed from Iceland, Rolf travels abroad, meeting with shipwreck,...

Erin Schellhase 6 hours 25 minutes

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445

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Unknown to History

During the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, plots, conspiracies, and intrigue engulfed the country. Catholics were apprehensive of Protestants; Scots mistrusted the English. No one felt completely safe. Into the...

Tanica 16 hours 4 minutes

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449

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...

Susan Morin 11 hours 57 minutes

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446

Mary Ella Lyng - History Plays for the Grammar Grades

A charming collection of 14 short American history plays for the very young — ranging from Christopher Columbus to George Washington to Susan B Anthony. (Summary by Maria Therese) Cast: Narrator; First Maid of...

1 hour 31 minutes

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Priest on Horseback-Father Farmer: 1720-1786

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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...

Maria Therese 3 hours 20 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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