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Willa Sibert Cather - Song of the Lark

Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place supposedly located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young heroine, Thea...

E. Tavano and 6 more 16 hours 20 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

Animals & Nature

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

The eighth book in the Junior Classics Series is an anthology of collected animal and nature tales designed to appeal to the young and young at heart. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Lynne T and 24 more 14 hours 49 minutes The Junior Classics

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Pitcher Woodward - On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck

" A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours — starting without a dollar and earning my way." The journey could be...

Arnold and 9 more 13 hours 47 minutes

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General

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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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Biography & Autobiography

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Samuel G Goodrich - Life of Benjamin Franklin

This little book was intended for the education of school children and includes tales, sketches and anecdotes of his life written for the children of the mid 1800's and written in the English languge of that period....

maryagneskatherine and 10 more 3 hours 44 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 018

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 018: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Samantha Miles and 12 more 3 hours 22 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Action & Adventure

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Charles Edward Carryl - Davy and the Goblin

Eight-year-old Davy reads Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and begins to get very sleepy. Suddenly a goblin appears in the fire and takes Davy on a «believing voyage» much like Alice's own...

Frances Brown and 6 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Aesop - Aesop for Children

A collection of Aesop's fables for children from the classic American book illustrated by Milo Winter. Read along and see the illustrations at: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19994. (Summary by Jill Engle)

Bob Neufeld and 18 more 3 hours 11 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Gertrude Chandler Warner - Box-Car Children

Four children: Henry, Jess Violet and Bennie. They are living alone in a stranded boxcar. They find items they need from the dump and a stray dog whom they name Watch. Henry earns money by working for a man named Dr....

Woolly Bee and 7 more 2 hours 42 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer

The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer is another set of children’s stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. More serious than some of Burgess' other children's books, much of this book chronicles the tense...

Jill Engle and 11 more 2 hours 38 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Richard le Gallienne - Maker of Rainbows

A collection of Fairy Tales from Richard Le Gallienne.

Ron Altman and 11 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Grandfather Frog

Longlegs the Blue Heron felt decidedly out of sorts. It was a beautiful morning, too beautiful for any one to be feeling that way. Indeed, it was the same beautiful morning in which Grandfather Frog had caught so many...

Etel Buss and 8 more 2 hours 6 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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