Children's Fiction

Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition

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Horatio Alger, Jr.


Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a 15 year old farmer's boy whose father is dea…

The Rose Child

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Johanna Spyri


The story of a little girl in the village of Wildbach, who loved the roses, and how spreading both her roses and her love touched the hearts…

Miss Ashton's New Pupil

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Sarah Stuart Robbins


Marion Park, the daughter of missionaries, is sent to Miss Ashton's boarding school. There she meets with many young girls and together they…

Peggy's Trial

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Mary Knight Potter


Ten-year old Peggy Clayton and her two younger brothers, Teddy and Harry, live with their father, Dr. Clayton, and Nurse, a woman who has ta…

Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

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Hamilton Wright Mabie


We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were hu…

Stepping Heavenward

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Elizabeth Prentiss


Stepping Heavenward is the journal of a girl named Katherine Mortimer. Katy meets a young man who she loves & wants to marry but her mot…

Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities

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Andrew Lang


These are short stories about the life of Ulysses, the stealing of Helen, Paris, battles, Trojan horses, and more! - Summary by Maggie Trave…

Cat Tales

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Various


Cat Tales is the first of a series of kid-friendly collections of animal stories and non-fiction. There'll be one or two grade-school-level …

Dot and Tot of Merryland

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L. Frank Baum


Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the advent…

The Goody-Naughty Book

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Sarah Cory Rippey


The Goody-Naughty Book was originally published as two books back to back. Opening the book from one end, the reader experiences "The G…

The Flint Heart

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Eden Phillpotts


The flint heart is a stone of heart shape, forged in prehistoric times, that changes whoever owns it into a wicked person. The story of the …

How to Tell Stories to Children

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Sara Cone Bryant


Sarah Cone Bryant was an educator and storyteller who wrote several books on the importance of oral storytelling to children, and stories to…

Mary Cary, Frequently Martha

Read by Jan MacGillivray


Kate Langley Bosher


"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 7)

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Mark Twain


A slightly more complex sequel to Mark Twain's original book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, this book really shows the true side of racism i…

More Goops and How Not to Be Them

Read by Mark F. Smith


Frank Gelett Burgess


Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…

Grace Harlowe's Problem

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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase


The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…

The Fairy Ring

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Kate Douglas Wiggin


The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…

The Railway Children (version 3)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


E. Nesbit


When their father mysteriously goes away, three children and their story-writing mother leave their comfortable life in London and move to a…

The Windy Hill

Read by Peter Eastman


Cornelia Meigs


When two children come to stay with their cousin, they immediately realize something is wrong, but no one will tell them what. Their cousin …

The Garden Behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon Angel

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Howard Pyle


David goes on a journey to the moon-garden where everything is beautiful and where he also meets Phyllis who is not like the other children …

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