Children & Young Adult Reading

The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln

Wayne Whipple

The work is a biographical sketch that assembles anecdotes, family recollections, and contemporary testimony…

The Children of Wilton Chase

L. T. Meade

The Children of Wilton Chase is a juvenile novel set in a bustling English country house of the nineteenth…

Eyebright: A Story

Susan Coolidge

The work is a juvenile fiction piece that follows the everyday life of a schoolroom in a small rural…

Baseball Joe Around the World; or, Pitching on a Grand Tour

Lester Chadwick

The work is a juvenile adventure novel that follows the celebrated pitcher Joe as he naviges the swirling…

Randy of the River; Or, The Adventures of a Young Deckhand

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Randy of the River is a juvenile adventure that follows a bright‑minded fourteen‑year‑old carpenter’s son as…

It's like this, cat

Emily Neville

The book is a slice‑of‑city juvenile novel that opens with a vivid portrait of a New York family living in a…

The Adventurous Seven: Their Hazardous Undertaking

Bessie Marchant

The Adventurous Seven: Their Hazardous Undertaking is a juvenile adventure set in turn‑of‑the‑century…

The Dragon's Secret

Augusta Huiell Seaman

The novel opens on a breezy October day at a quiet seaside resort, where sixteen‑year‑old Leslie and her…

Walter and the Wireless

Sara Ware Bassett

Walter King, a fifteen‑year‑old “His Highness” of a tiny New England fishing village, opens the story with a…

Madge Morton's Victory

Amy D. V. Chalmers

Madge Morton’s Victory is a juvenile‑fiction tale that opens amid the nervous excitement of a girls’ school…

Girls of the Forest

L. T. Meade

Girls of the Forest is a juvenile fiction tale set in an aging Elizabethan mansion surrounded by the New…

The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice; Or, Solving a Wireless Mystery

Allen Chapman

The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice is a juvenile adventure series that blends the excitement of early…

The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay; or, The Secret of the Red Oar

Margaret Penrose

The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay is a light‑hearted juvenile mystery that opens with a bustling scene of four…

The Hoosier School-boy

Edward Eggleston

The Hoosier School‑boy is a slice‑of‑life tale set in a mid‑nineteenth‑century Indiana village, where the…

Katie Robertson: A girls story of factory life

Margaret E. Winslow

The novel is a domestic‑industrial tale set in a modest English village, following the Robertson family after…

Wood folk at school

William J. Long

The work is a natural‑history sketchbook that treats the wild creatures of North America as students in an…

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks; or, Two Recruits in the United States Army

H. Irving Hancock

Uncle Sam’s Boys in the Ranks is a juvenile adventure set in a small New Jersey town, where a group of…

Rollo in Scotland

Jacob Abbott

The work is a juvenile travel narrative that blends a lively description of a steamer journey with a gentle…

Dorothy on a Ranch

Evelyn Raymond

Dorothy on a Ranch is a juvenile adventure set in the American West, written by Evelyn Raymond in 1909.

The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands

Roger T. Finlay

The Wonder Island Boys is a juvenile adventure series that follows two boys and their adult companion as they…

Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies; Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace

Alice B. Emerson

The story opens with a lively scene at the Red Mill, where Ruth Fielding, a plucky teenage heroine, insists…

The Boarding School: Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.

Unknown

The work is a didactic juvenile narrative set in a newly founded boarding school, where a governess and her…

Ruth Fielding Down East; Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point

Alice B. Emerson

The novel is a youthful mystery set against a storm‑swept Maine riverside, where the heroine Ruth Fielding, a…

Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country

Joel Chandler Harris

The story opens on a Georgia plantation where three children, a seven‑year‑old girl named Sweetest Susan, her…