Family & Relationships

Ruffles and Danny

by Margery Watson Read by TriciaG 4.4
A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shor…

The Bobbsey Twins at Home

by Laura Lee Hope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the eighth book in the "Bobbsey Twins" series. In it Flossie and Freddie find, in a big snow storm, the lost father of Tom…

The Art of Kissing

by Will Rossiter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Art of Kissing by Will Rossiter explores the rich history and cultural significance of one of humanity's most universal expressions of a…

Watch and Wait

by William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic Read by Scarlett Martin 4.9
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves bef…

What Katy Did at School

by Susan Coolidge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Following Katy's recovery in What Katy Did, Katy and Clover go to Hillsover, a boarding school. Together with their new friend Rosamond Redd…

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life

by Margaret O. Oliphant Read by Anne Erickson 4.6
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…

Rich and Humble

by Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams Read by Scarlett Martin 4.6
This is the first story in the Woodville collection of tales about the interesting people in Woodville. As the characters grow, they learn …

The Pennycomequicks

by Sabine Baring-Gould Read by Michael Reuss 4.6
The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scar…

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

by Margaret Sidney Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew tells the story of how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. They are poo…

Pollyanna's Debt of Honor

by Harriet Lummis Smith Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the fifth Pollyanna Glad Book. Pollyanna is kept busy teaching her famous "glad game" to others and thus spreading her own…

The Mother

by Pearl Buck and Pearl S. Buck Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Life is difficult for The Mother, with a household of husband and children, when her crone of a mother-in-law comes to live with them. It is…

Heidi

by Johanna Spyri Read by Caroline Sophie 4.7
Une petite fille orpheline, Heidi, est amenée par sa tante chez son grand-père qui habite isolé sur l’Alpe, loin des ho…

What Sami Sings With The Birds

by Johanna Spyri Read by Daryl Wor 4.7
Old Mary Ann has done her best to bring up her son on her own. Like other relatives, her son has a longing to travel off over the mountains.…

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

by Jacob Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the rig…

Letters to His Children

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The strong, vigorous, exalted character of a doting father who loved playing with his children and their pets, even while serving as the Pre…

The Confessions of a Daddy

by Ellis Parker Butler Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live q…

The House by the Medlar Tree

by Giovanni Verga Read by Tom Denholm 4.2
In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nut…

The Windy Hill

by Cornelia Meigs Read by Peter Eastman 4.1
When two children come to stay with their cousin, they immediately realize something is wrong, but no one will tell them what. Their cousin …

Peggy's Trial

by Mary Knight Potter Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4.7
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…

Anne's House of Dreams

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The book begins with Anne and Gilbert's wedding, which takes place in the Green Gables orchard. After the wedding, they move to their first …

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