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Memoirs

406

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

478

James Otis - Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

Toby Tyler tells the story of a ten year-old orphan who runs away from a foster home to join the traveling circus only to discover his new employer is a cruel taskmaster. The difference between the romance of the...

Patti Cunningham and 11 more 5 hours 15 minutes

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Bibles

424

Jewish Publication Society of America - Torah (JPSA) 02: Exodus

The second book of the Pentateuch — Exodus. Presented according to weekly parshah. Praised are You, Adonai, Our G-d, ruler of the Universe, who has made us holy with commandments and commanded us to engage in the...

Rhonda Federman and 4 more 3 hours 34 minutes

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Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others

Science

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Jeannette Augustus Marks - Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others

These short stories about crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other little busybodies are intended by the two authors to show their children the wonderland of insectcs if we just take the time to look closely. «We hope...

Linette and 7 more 3 hours 28 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Mermaid's Message and Other Stories

This is a collection of fairy tales and fables compiled in 1919. The stories contain original but old-fashioned tales which modern children and grown-ups will enjoy. Summary by Carolin

BettyB and 16 more 3 hours 11 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

432

Annie Fellows Johnston - Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman

We all know that Santa Claus has a large family in which to help him in the delivery of presents, peace, and good cheer. So what would you do if you were Miss Santa Claus and met two children on Christmas Eve...

Linette 3 hours

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Political Science

570

Bruce Jenkins - Anti-Coup

Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of the state apparatus have occurred with great frequency in recent...

Benjamin Gittins and 3 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories

General

468

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories

She had not been brought up in America at all. She had been born in France, in a beautiful château, and she had been born heiress to a great fortune, but, nevertheless, just now she felt as if she was very poor,...

ashleighjane and 2 more 2 hours 36 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 1, January 1900

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, stories and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 2 hours 28 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Children's Fiction

448

Bruce S. Wright - Children's Six Minutes

This is a nice collection of 52 kid-aimed sermons by missionary Wright while he served in the Philippines in the World War I era. Each offers a slice-of-life reference point, an appropriate Bible verse, and hymn....

Bellona Times and 18 more 2 hours 25 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Fitch Perkins - Belgian Twins

This story is based upon the experiences of two Belgian refugees in World War I. When their parents are marched of by Germans, Jan and Marie are left alone. Now they, along with their dog, have to find their parents!...

ashleighjane and 4 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

472

Anonymous - Nell and Her Grandfather

If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of «not quite fourteen», an orphan, who lived with her maternal grandfather in his shop of...

Phil Chenevert and 6 more 2 hours 11 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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