Children & Young Adult Reading

The Box-Car Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Box‑Car Children is a juvenile adventure that opens with a sudden, uneasy arrival in the quiet village of…

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The novel is a juvenile fiction that follows the conduct of life of a young English boy, Cedric Errol, whose…

Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground is a whimsical fantasy that begins with a very ordinary garden scene, quickly…

The Literary World Seventh Reader

The Literary World Seventh Reader is a compendium that gathers a wide range of short works, legends, poems,…

Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet

Carlo Collodi

The tale begins in a noisy workshop where a frightened carpenter, Master Cherry, hears a mysterious voice…

Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading

Frances Jenkins Olcott

Good Stories for Great Holidays is a curated anthology designed for both children’s independent reading and…

Blackie & Son's Books for Young People, Catalogue - 1898

Blackie & Son

The catalogue opens with a series of glowing notices for the prolific G. A.

Emily of New Moon

L. M. Montgomery

Emily of New Moon is a juvenile tale set in a remote, almost fairy‑tale house that “looks as if it had never…

The Tale of Rusty Wren

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Rusty Wren is a juvenile story that centers on the everyday adventures of a busy little wren and…

Tom Brown's School Days

Thomas Hughes

The work is a Victorian school novel that begins with an expansive, almost genealogical tribute to the Brown…

Ozma of Oz A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion, and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein

L. Frank Baum

This volume is a whimsical continuation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz adventures, written expressly to satisfy the…

The Fairy Books of Andrew Lang A Project Gutenberg Linked Index to All Stories in the 12 Volumes

Andrew Lang

Jo's Boys

Louisa May Alcott

The novel continues the March family saga by turning the beloved Plumfield estate into a bustling college…

True Stories of Wonderful Deeds Pictures and Stories for Little Folk

Anonymous

The Goody-Naughty Book

Sarah Cory Rippey

The Goody‑Naughty Book is a collection of short children’s tales printed in 1913 by Rand McNally, illustrated…

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

Beatrix Potter

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series

H. C. Andersen

The second volume gathers a selection of Hans Christian Andersen’s shorter tales, chosen for their appeal to…

Killykinick

Mary T. Waggaman

The novel is a boys’ adventure set during a summer vacation at the boarding school of Saint Andrew’s, where…

Rainbow Valley

L. M. Montgomery

Rainbow Valley is a historical juvenile novel set on Prince Edward Island, where the lives of orphans,…

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

L. M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s early short‑story collection gathers works first published between 1896 and 1901,…

Elson Grammar School Literature, book 4

Elson, William H. (William Harris); Keck, Christine M.

Elson Grammar School Literature, Book 4 is a teacher‑oriented anthology that assembles a wide range of poems,…

At the Back of the North Wind

George MacDonald

The work is a whimsical fairy‑tale narrated by an unnamed storyteller who claims to set out a different…

The Story of a Cat

Emile de La Bédollière

The Story of a Cat is a juvenile tale that blends animal affection with a touch of eighteenth‑century French…

Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England

J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps

Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England is a scholarly anthology compiled…