Children & Young Adult Reading

The Cat in Grandfather's House

Carl Henry Grabo

The Cat in Grandfather’s House is a whimsical fantasy aimed at young readers, opening with ten‑year‑old…

Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg

Rootabaga Stories is a whimsical collection of American fairy‑tale sketches that begins with the odd,…

Scouting for Boys

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell

Scouting for Boys is a practical handbook written by Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden‑Powell, the founder of the…

The Young Adventurer; or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The Young Adventurer; or, Tom’s Trip Across the Plains is a nineteenth‑century American yarn that blends…

Peterkin

Mrs. Molesworth

The novel is a lively piece of juvenile fiction set in an English household, where a group of siblings and…

Electricity for Boys

James Slough Zerbe

Electricity for Boys is a hands‑on manual that treats the science of electricity as a series of concrete…

Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells

The volume is a curated anthology of William Dean Howells’s juvenile stories, assembled in 1909 for school…

Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles

The volume is a lively anthology of children’s verse, alphabet lessons, and short narrative rhymes, all…

Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library

This volume is a curated anthology that gathers together a broad spectrum of English‑language poems deemed…

Now we are six

A. A. Milne

Now we are Six is a whimsical collection of children’s poems by A. A.

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Story of Silk

Sara Ware Bassett

The Story of Silk is a juvenile narrative that opens in a quiet valley of Bellerivre, where the sounds of a…

The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories

Joaquin Miller

The work is a 19th‑century American tale of frontier life, set among the gold‑seeking families of the Sierra…

Eric or, Under the Sea

S. B. C. Samuels

The work is a juvenile adventure set against a backdrop of European travel and the wistful farewell from a…

The Twin Cousins

Sophie May

The Twin Cousins is a juvenile tale that weaves together themes of Christian conduct, friendship, and the…

David and the Phoenix

Edward Ormondroyd

The story is a whimsical adventure that blends fantasy with a light‑hearted, juvenile tone.

Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone; Or, The Plot Against Uncle Sam

G. Harvey Ralphson

The novel is an adventure story aimed at young readers, centered on a group of Boy Scouts from New York who…

A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia

Alice Turner Curtis

A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia is a juvenile historical narrative set in 1778, when British forces under…

Mary Jane's City Home

Clara Ingram Judson

The novel follows the Merrill family as they trade a quiet Midwestern town for the bustling streets of…

Winning His Way

Charles Carleton Coffin

Winning His Way is a nineteenth‑century historical novel that blends frontier settlement life with the…

The golden spears, and other fairy tales

Edmund Leamy

The volume is a collection of Irish fairy tales by Edmund Leamy, presented here in an American edition that…

Dorothy's Triumph

Evelyn Raymond

Dorothy’s Triumph is a juvenile fiction adventure that follows the spirited Dorothy Elisabeth…

Sunny Boy in the Big City

Ramy Allison White

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson