Children & Young Adult Reading

Harper's Electricity Book for Boys

Joseph H. Adams

Harper’s Electricity Book for Boys is a practical manual that invites a curious youngster to explore the…

The Beginner's American History

D. H. Montgomery

The Beginner’s American History is a straightforward instructional work that opens with a detailed,…

Melody : The Story of a Child

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Melody is a juvenile‑fiction tale that centers on the quiet lives of two devoted sisters, Miss Vesta and Miss…

Fairy Tales, Volume 1 (of 2)

Fairy Tales, Volume 1 is a curated collection of classic Märchen and comic anecdotes that follows directly…

The Light Princess

George MacDonald

The Light Princess is a whimsical fairy‑tale that begins with a king’s petty frustration over his queen’s…

Flower Fables

Louisa May Alcott

Flower Fables is a whimsical collection of short, fairy‑tale stories that centers on a garden of sentient…

The family at Misrule

Ethel Turner

The family at Misrule is a juvenile domestic novel set in Australia, revolving around a bustling household of…

Eight Cousins

Louisa May Alcott

Eight Cousins is a juvenile fiction tale that opens with the newly orphaned Rose confined to a gloomy parlor,…

Fairy Tales, Volume 2 (of 2)

This volume collects a second set of fairy tales chosen to complement the stories presented in the first…

Nobody's boy (Sans famille)

Hector Malot

The novel is a French adventure of the mid‑nineteenth century, narrated through the eyes of a foundling who…

The Burgess Bird Book for Children

Thornton W. Burgess

The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a hybrid of story‑book and field guide, created at the request of…

The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young: Done into Modern English

The volume is a modern‑language rendering of the medieval conduct manuals that once guided the upbringing of…

The family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with His Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island.

Johann David Wyss

The work is an early‑nineteenth‑century adventure narrative that blends family drama with practical…

The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa

Anna B. Badlam

The volume is a school‑age reference work that presents Africa as a series of “views” intended to supplement…

Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making

W. Hamilton Gibson

The work is a practical handbook aimed at young outdoorsmen who want more than the usual “boys’ books” of the…

A Young Girl's Diary

This work is a diary‑style narrative written by an Austrian girl in the early 1910s, presented as a…

The King of the Golden River

John Ruskin

John Ruskin’s “The King of the Golden River” is a short, didactic fairy tale that begins in a lush,…

The fog: A novel

William Dudley Pelley

The novel is a New England coming‑of‑age tale that begins with a vivid, almost theatrical scene in a Vermont…

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

Heidi is a Swiss children’s novel that opens with a vivid mountain trek.

Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales

Various

This volume gathers a broad assortment of fairy‑tales, wonder stories, and fables aimed at young readers,…

Jerry Todd and the Talking Frog

Leo Edwards

This book is a juvenile detective adventure that blends mystery, humor, and a touch of the supernatural.

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The Patchwork Girl of Oz continues L. Frank Baum’s beloved Oz series with a fresh adventure that begins not…

Jeux et exercices des jeunes filles

Du Parquet, Marguerite, active 19th century

Ce traité, signé Marguerite Du Parquet, se présente comme un recueil méthodique de jeux et d’exercices…

McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader

William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader is a nineteenth‑century schoolbook designed to teach children the…