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Chapter 9, A Loss of Importance

In The Rover Boys on the Ocean

Read by Lydia Paterson

Edward Stratemeyer and Arthur M. Winfield

The hearty, all-American Rover Boys sail by yacht to Africa in search of their kidnapped father. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

15 - The Terrier - Part 1

In Anecdotes of Dogs

Read by Lydia Paterson

Edward Jesse

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." The character, sensibilities, and intellectual facu…

Chapter 12: HOW BETSINDA FLED, AND WHAT BECAME OF HER

In The Rose And The Ring

Read by Lydia

William Makepeace Thackeray

Victorian social satire hiding in a set of children's fairy tales by the author of the classic "Vanity Fair" - Summary by Stav Ni…

Chapter 6 Certain Objections Part 3

In Woman and Labour

Read by Lydia

Olive Schreiner

I should like to say to the men and women of the generations which will come after us—“You will look back at us with astonishment! You will …

Come, Rest Awhile

In The Watchman and Other Poems

Read by Lydia

Lucy Maud Montgomery

While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, she also wrote hundreds of poems.…

Jack and the Bean Stalk

In Mother’s Nursery Tales

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Katharine Pyle

Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like…

THE PANSY AND FORGET-ME-NOT -- In Mamma's Room

In Flower Stories

Read by Lydia

Lenore Elizabeth Mulets

This volume contains stories, poems, and facts about lots of different flowers, intended for teaching children. It is divided into thirteen …

The Unruly Family

In The Fairchild Family

Read by Lydia

Mary Martha Sherwood

The adventures of Lucy, Emily and Henry are described in this short novel, written and set in Regency England. Their naughtiness, their acti…