Children & Young Adult Reading

Little Brother

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is a near‑future thriller that plunges the reader into a San Francisco still…

The Book of Dragons

E. Nesbit

The work is a whimsical short‑story collection aimed at children, centering on the absurd adventures of a…

Captain Horace

Sophie May

The book is a juvenile historical tale set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, narrated through…

Gabriel and the Hour Book

Evaleen Stein

The work opens in a stark stone room of St. Martin’s Abbey, where young Gabriel is summoned from the bustling…

The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters; Or, The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow

Charles Henry Lerrigo

The book is a juvenile adventure that follows Glen Mason, a reform‑school boy who has just earned a rare…

Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore

This volume gathers a selection of folk narratives and fairy‑tale motifs that were traditionally told aloud…

Christopher and the Clockmakers

Sara Ware Bassett

The book is a juvenile tale that follows Christopher Mark Antony Burton, a boy burdened with an absurdly…

Ted and the Telephone

Sara Ware Bassett

The story opens in the bleak mill town of Freeman’s Falls, a New Hampshire river‑side community whose very…

Ten Boys from History

Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Kate Dickinson Sweetser’s Ten Boys from History is a compact biographical collection that gathers youthful…

Rollo on the Rhine

Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott’s Rollo on the Rhine is a juvenile travel narrative that begins with a sweeping geographic…

The book of one syllable

Esther Bakewell

Esther Bakewell’s The Book of One Syllable is a collection of short juvenile tales written entirely with…

Baseball Joe in the Big League; or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles

Lester Chadwick

The novel is a juvenile adventure that follows the young pitcher Joseph “Joe” Matson as he wrestles with the…

Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

Charlotte M. Yonge

The story opens in a bustling household where Lucy, a young girl, is reluctantly confined to her bed after a…

The Doers

William John Hopkins

The Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Blue Fairy Book is a collection of folk narratives that blend magical quests with moral intrigue, and it…

The Boy Scouts of Lenox; Or, The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain

Frank V. Webster

Frank V. Webster’s story is a juvenile adventure that blends the lively chatter of a Boy Scout patrol with a…

Ruth Fielding At College; or, The Missing Examination Papers

Alice B. Emerson

This novel blends a youthful college‑age mystery with the breezy camaraderie of a boarding‑school adventure.

Fred Fenton on the Track; Or, The Athletes of Riverport School

Allen Chapman

The novel is a school‑yard adventure aimed at young readers, blending the everyday drama of Riverport…

Radio Boys Loyalty; Or, Bill Brown Listens In

Whipple, Wayne; Aaron, S. F.

The novel is a youthful adventure that blends detective intrigue with the technical enthusiasm of early…

Rollo's Museum

Jacob Abbott

The work is a juvenile natural‑history narrative that begins with a young boy, Rollo, at the cusp of his…

Nine Little Goslings

Susan Coolidge

Susan Coolidge’s Nine Little Goslings is a juvenile fiction story that explores the shifting moods and…

An Elementary Study of Insects

Leonard Haseman

Leonard Haseman’s An Elementary Study of Insects is a practical textbook aimed at grade‑school pupils,…

The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The work is a late‑nineteenth‑century novel that blends the themes of inheritance and the conduct of life…

The Sleeping Beauty

C. S. Evans

The Sleeping Beauty is a German‑origin fairy tale retold by C. S.