Children & Young Adult Reading

Tom, The Bootblack; or, The Road to Success

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The work is a juvenile adventure story that follows the everyday struggles of Tom, a fifteen‑year‑old street…

The Grammar School Boys of Gridley; or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving

H. Irving Hancock

The Grammar School Boys of Gridley is a turn‑of‑the‑century school story that opens in a bustling classroom…

The Adventures of Maya the Bee

Waldemar Bonsels

The work is a juvenile fiction adventure that follows Maya, a newly hatched bee, as she awakens amid a hive…

Rollo in Paris

Jacob Abbott

The work is a Victorian‑era travel narrative that begins with a domestic scene in a London hotel, where the…

Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls

Sarah Orne Jewett

The book opens with a quiet breakfast scene in a Boston hotel, where fifteen‑year‑old Betty Leicester and her…

Ralph on the Engine; Or, The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail

Allen Chapman

Ralph on the Engine, or The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail, is a fast‑moving railroad yarn that thrusts…

On the Edge of the Arctic; Or, An Aeroplane in Snowland

H. L. Sayler

The story follows two teenage Canadians, Norman Grant and Roy Moulton, who are as comfortable with railroads,…

The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch

Eleanor H. Porter

The novel is a juvenile‑fiction tale set in a New England town where a group of six girls, the “Happy…

Caps and Capers: A Story of Boarding-School Life

Gabrielle E. Jackson

The work is a juvenile fiction tale set in a boarding‑school milieu, introduced through a somber domestic…

The Curlytops and Their Pets; Or, Uncle Toby's Strange Collection

Howard Roger Garis

The Curlytops and Their Pets is a lively juvenile tale that follows the Martin children, Janet, her brother…

The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure

William Bowen

The work is a whimsical fantasy adventure that begins with a young boy, Freddie, lingering before the Old…

The Tree-Dwellers

Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

The Tree‑Dwellers is a juvenile educational work that presents the earliest known human societies as a series…

Patty's Friends

Carolyn Wells

Patty’s Friends is a juvenile fiction set in the bustling social world of turn‑of‑the‑century London, where…

Conservation Reader

Harold W. Fairbanks

Conservation Reader is a school‑oriented textbook that frames the whole subject of natural‑resource…

Last Words: A Final Collection of Stories

Juliana Horatia Ewing

The volume is a modest anthology of juvenile tales by Juliana Horatia Ewing, first assembled after the…

The Radio Boys at the Sending Station; Or, Making Good in the Wireless Room

Allen Chapman

The Radio Boys at the Sending Station is a juvenile adventure series that blends the excitement of…

The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages

Roger T. Finlay

The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages is a juvenile adventure that follows two boys and an elderly…

Betty Wales, Senior

Edith K. Dunton

The novel is the senior installment of Edith K. Dunton’s “Betty Wales” series, a continuation of the…

Clematis

Cobb, Bertha B. (Bertha Browning); Cobb, Ernest

Molly Brown's Senior Days

Nell Speed

Molly Brown’s Senior Days is a juvenile‑fiction portrait of college life, set at Wellington College as the…

Yr Ynys Unyg; or, The lonely island: A Narrative for Young People

Julia de Winton

Yr Ynys Unyg; or, The Lonely Island is a juvenile adventure that begins with a framed letter from a friend…

The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter

Aesop

The Aesop for Children gathers a selection of Aesop’s fables, each paired with Milo Winter’s graceful…

Panther Eye

Roy J. Snell

The novel opens in the stark darkness of an Arctic gold mine, where Johnny Thompson and his enigmatic…

The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp

Katherine Stokes

The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp is a juvenile‑fiction tale set in an Adirondack summer retreat, introduced…