Claire Schreuder

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Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old

A selection of famous tales selected and re-worked for a junior audience. Stories are taken from Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Shakespearean plays, Pilgrim's Progress, Ivanhoe, and The Startling...

Lynne T and 19 more 13 hours 56 minutes The Junior Classics

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Fairy Book

The sleeping beauty in the wood — Hop-O'-My-Thumb — Cinderella; or, the little glass slipper — Adventures of John Dietrich — Beauty and the Beast — Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes — Jack the...

Woolly Bee and 20 more 12 hours 53 minutes

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General Fiction

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L. T. Meade - Girls of St. Wode's

This is a story about the life of a school girl. The story centres around the girls' college of St. Wode's, Wingfield. This is the place in all England where women who wish to distinguish themselves should go to...

Michele Eaton and 11 more 8 hours 33 minutes

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Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 4, 1854 to 1859

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 4, 1854 to 1859

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)

Katia Bodiou and 15 more 7 hours 38 minutes

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Single Author Collections

Susan Coolidge - Just Sixteen

A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children — and enjoyable for adults too! They vary in style — fairy tales, humorous sketches,...

Jennifer Dorr and 11 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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General Fiction

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Clara Vaughan, Vol I.

CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of her father’s murder—a crime that occurred when she was only 10 years of age....

Lynne T and 7 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Sky Island (version 2)

A little girl (Trot) and her friend (Cap'n Bill) team up with a young boy named Button-Bright. Button-Bright had found a magical umbrella in his attic. He meets the kind girl and sailor and they are transported to a...

ASPotter and 14 more 5 hours 37 minutes

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William J. Long - Ways of Wood Folk

Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us in to the secret worlds of the woodland animals. Containing Long's own animal observations along with stories related to him by other humans who inhabit...

Jill Engle and 7 more 4 hours 44 minutes Wood Folk Series

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Science Fiction

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers

Tom Swift flies his airship to the mountain tops of Colorado to seek for the secret of the Diamond Makers: criminal scientists who have figured out the formula of manufacturing a limitless fortune in diamonds. But...

Greg Giordano and 7 more 4 hours 31 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Action & Adventure

Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat

Otherwise known as 'Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure', is Volume 4 in the original Tom Swift novel series. Tom persuades his father to use his own submarine to hunt for treasure on a sunken ship. The book follows...

Ralph Crown and 12 more 4 hours 30 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Children's Fiction

Hamilton Wright Mabie - Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were huge crowd-pullers. Many of these stories were passed down through the...

Jennifer Dorr and 8 more 4 hours 9 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Howard R. Garis - Uncle Wiggily in the Woods

Howard Garis, one of the most prolific children's writers of the 20th century, is credited with writing over 1500 Uncle Wiggily stories. In this collection, the loveable old rabbit stays close to home and visits...

Lynne T and 10 more 3 hours 50 minutes Uncle Wiggily Stories

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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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