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When Lighthouses are Dark: a Story of a Lake Superior Island

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Ethel C. Brill


The story of four children stranded on a Lake Superior island. They take refuge in a deserted lighthouse hoping to survive the winter. (Summ…

The Merry Anne

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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.


This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose…

Calumet “K”

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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.


"A novel, with several elements of rather unusual interest. As a tale, it is swift, simple, and absorbing, and one does not willingly p…

The Jingle Book

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Carolyn Wells


A collection of silly poetry and limericks for children.

Cornhuskers

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Carl Sandburg


Carl Sandburg's collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.

The Short Line War

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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.


"The Short Line War is a story that will appeal more particularly to the sterner sex, and we take it that the hyphenated name, Merwin-W…

Girl Scout Collection

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Various


These articles, pamphlets, and stories relating to the Girls Scouts of America touch on the history, activities, ideals, and traditions of t…

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In Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

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moore_c and Clement Clarke Moore


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a weekly poetry project. (Summ…

03 - Looking-Glass Insects

In Through the Looking-Glass

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Lewis Carroll


Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land …

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In The Return of the Native

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Thomas Hardy


Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Vic…

Chapter 32

In The Spy

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cooper_jf and James Fenimore Cooper


James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the A…

03 - Legends of the Old Orchard

In The Story Girl

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


The Story Girl, by Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery, tells about the summer Felix and Beverly King visit their cousins in Carlise…

The Last Chapter - Home Again

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle

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Hugh Lofting


In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up…

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In The Song My Paddle Sings

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E. Pauline Johnson


LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of February 5, 2006 offers fourteen versions of "The Song My Paddle Sings" from the …

The Beacon on the Hill

In Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

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Stephen Leacock


Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…

Chapter 06 – Liberty

In Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

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Anna Sewell


Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir o…

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