Children & Young Adult Reading

The Boy Mechanic, Book 2: 1000 Things for Boys to Do

The book is a practical handbook aimed at boys who want to learn a useful trade, and it opens with a detailed…

Short Stories for High Schools

This volume presents a purpose‑driven anthology of short stories aimed at the high‑school classroom.

Home Geography for Primary Grades

C. C. Long

Home Geography for Primary Grades is a teacher‑oriented manual that treats geography as a series of concrete…

Jack and Jill

Louisa May Alcott

The story opens on a bright December afternoon in Harmony Village, where the children are racing sleds down…

The Tale of Fatty Coon

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Fatty Coon is a juvenile animal story that follows the adventures of a plump raccoon living with…

Popular Tales

Charles Perrault

This volume presents Charles Perrault’s French fairy‑tale collection, first issued in Paris in 1697.

McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader

William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader is a nineteenth‑century schoolbook designed to guide a young learner from…

A Girl of the Limberlost

Gene Stratton-Porter

Gene Stratton‑Porter’s A Girl of the Limberlost is a didactic domestic tale that follows Elnora Comstock as…

Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources

Aesop

This volume presents a newly revised collection of Aesop’s fables, drawn directly from the original Greek…

Tales from Shakespeare

Lamb, Charles; Lamb, Mary

Tales from Shakespeare is an abridged collection that reshapes the great playwright’s plots into stories…

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6

Charles Herbert Sylvester

Journeys Through Bookland, Volume 6 is a curated anthology that presents a “new and original plan for…

The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696

Charles Perrault

This volume presents the first collected edition of Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose tales, first issued in…

Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales

Leo Tolstoy

This volume gathers a series of short moral tales that blend animal characters with human foibles, each story…

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Margaret Sidney

The novel introduces the Pepper family as a tight‑knit group of poor children living in a modest brown house,…

McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader

William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader is a nineteenth‑century schoolbook that blends literary excerpts with a…

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The novel opens on a sweltering May day as the stagecoach rattles along the dusty road between Maplewood and…

When we were very young

A. A. Milne

When we Were Very Young is a whimsical collection of children’s poems by A. A.

Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life

Talbot Baines Reed

The volume is a school‑boy’s memoir of sport and rivalry, the first of several tales that capture the…

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

H. C. Andersen

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

The novel is a gently comic portrait of rural life on Prince Edward Island, introducing its world through the…

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.

Tales from Shakespeare

Lamb, Charles; Lamb, Mary

The volume is a child‑friendly collection of Shakespeare’s stories, edited by Charles and Mary Lamb to render…

A Child's History of England

Charles Dickens

A Child’s History of England, written by Charles Dickens, is a sweeping survey of Britain’s early past aimed…

The Tale of Mr. Tod

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Mr. Tod is a lively animal adventure aimed at younger readers, set in a woodland populated by…