Children & Young Adult Reading

Rollo at Work

Jacob Abbott

Rollo at Work is a juvenile fiction series by Jacob Abbott that presents a series of short, didactic stories…

The Silver Lining: A Guernsey Story

John Roussel

The Silver Lining: A Guernsey Story is a short‑form work of fiction set on the island of Guernsey, focusing…

Mr. Stubbs's Brother A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler'

James Otis

The book is a sequel to James Otis’s juvenile adventure Toby Tyler, set in the same small‑town world where…

The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Islands

Roger T. Finlay

The Wonder Island Boys is a juvenile adventure series that chronicles the exploits of two boys and their…

The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest

Margaret Vandercook

The novel is a juvenile adventure set in a Girl Scout summer camp, weaving together themes of camping,…

Uncle Rutherford's Nieces: A Story for Girls

Joanna H. Mathews

The story opens on a breezy summer day at a seaside house, where three children, Allie, Daisy and their older…

Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales

Ruth McEnery Stuart

Solomon Crow’s Christmas Pockets and Other Tales is a Southern‑style vignette that follows the early life of…

Steve and the Steam Engine

Sara Ware Bassett

Steve and the Steam Engine is a juvenile adventure that opens with a reckless episode of teenage daring.

Bird Stories

Edith M. Patch

Bird Stories is a whimsical anthology of juvenile tales that blend natural observation with gentle moral…

Sunny Boy in the Country

Ramy Allison White

Sunny Boy in the Country is a lively juvenile tale that opens with a bustling Saturday morning in a tidy city…

Fairy Book

Sophie May

The Fairy Book is a collection of whimsical tales framed as a lively domestic conversation among a group of…

A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The novel opens with a vivid portrait of seven‑year‑old Sara Crewe, a bright, imaginative child who has just…

Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy

Kirk Munroe

Cab and Caboose is a turn‑of‑the‑century adventure aimed at boys, presented as the first volume in the Boy…

Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels

Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Roy Blakeley’s Camp on Wheels is a juvenile adventure that follows a troop of Boy Scouts as they grapple with…

Prudy Keeping House

Sophie May

Prudy Keeping House is a juvenile fiction set in a genteel New York household, where a lively group of…

Aunt Madge's Story

Sophie May

Aunt Madge’s Story is a juvenile fiction piece that blends Christian moral lessons with the everyday…

Tales of Giants from Brazil

Elsie Spicer Eells

This volume is a collection of Brazilian fairy tales retold by Elsie Spicer Eells, and it opens with the…

The Panjandrum Picture Book

Randolph Caldecott

The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story

Angela Brazil

The story opens in a bustling school hallway, where a nervous Gwen Gascoyne is hurriedly summoned to the…

Rollo in Switzerland

Jacob Abbott

The work is a juvenile travel narrative that blends a practical guide to nineteenth‑century European…

Indian Child Life

Charles A. Eastman

The book is a memoir and collection of stories by Charles A.

The book of wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions That Are Asked and Which All Should Be Able to, but Cannot Answer...

The Book of Wonders is an encyclopedic compendium that sets out to answer the myriad everyday questions that…

An Australian Lassie

Lilian Turner

The Black Wolf Pack

Daniel Carter Beard

The Black Wolf Pack is a hybrid of detective intrigue and frontier adventure, introduced through a tangled…