Diana Schmidt

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Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

Children's Fiction

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Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

From the preface of the book: «To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a...

Diana Schmidt and 3 more 6 hours 32 minutes

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Family

743

Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding

In the previous book in this series, Lloyd was the maid of honor, but now it will be the Little Colonel's turn to be the bride. But who will be the groom? Will it be one of our old friends from previous books such as...

avocado and 7 more 6 hours 17 minutes The Little Colonel Series

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Phoebe Daring

A headstrong female detective strives to clear a good man's name in this children's mystery by Oz author L. Frank Baum. Summary by Miriam Esther Goldman

Miriam Esther Goldman and 9 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 1

Action & Adventure Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 1

In this first story in Freaks on the Fells, Mr Sudberry, a successful London merchant takes his family on a Scottish highlands vacation. Over the course of the summer the family has lots of exciting adventures near...

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 7 more 5 hours 43 minutes

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Memoirs

646

Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke - Village Life in America

A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)

Mary-Elizabeth Arndt and 7 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Margaret Vandercook - Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows

Betty and Esther are having another camping adventure in the New Hampshire hills, but this time it is the dead of winter. They are stuck with an overturned sleigh in the middle of a snowstorm! That is just the...

Shasta and 7 more 5 hours 37 minutes

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School

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Mary C. Hungerford - Friendly Five

«There were neither examinations nor graduation exercises at the Coventry Institute. The only ceremony peculiar to the last day of school, except the farewells, was a little sermon from Mrs. Abbott, the principal,...

Annike Lindhout and 16 more 5 hours 37 minutes

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Family

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Laura E. Howe Richards - Five Minute Stories

Another collection of poems and short stories by Laura Richards. Yes, these are all short and mostly all delightfully innocent and sweet. Some have a moral for little children, and some are just funny or poignant or...

Roohi and 21 more 5 hours 36 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Gertrude Landa - Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

«My desire is to give boys and girls something Jewish which they may be able to regard as companion delights to the treasury of general fairy-lore and childish romance.» from the preface. These tales deal with the...

Mike Pelton and 8 more 5 hours 33 minutes

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General

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Susan Coolidge - Clover (version 2)

This fourth book in the «What Katy Did» series focuses on Katy's closest sister, Clover. She ends up in the beautiful mountains of Colorado to nurse their younger brother back to health. While making new friends,...

Diana Schmidt and 4 more 5 hours 25 minutes

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Poetry

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Adam Lindsay Gordon - Poems

This is a volume of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet'. «The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name....

Larry Wilson and 20 more 5 hours 22 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Nathaniel Parker Willis - American Scenery, Vol. 2

Although the focus of this book is the engravings depicting scenic sites of 19th century America, each is accompanied by a short description of the site and location. These vignettes give us rare glimpses of scenic...

mpvoice and 6 more 5 hours 5 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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