Books

Katy goes East to boarding school. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

When separated-at-birth twins Penny and Pam discover each other, they determine to put their family back together.

A cat, a squirrel, a duck, pumpkin soup, but not salt … and pepper?

A cat, a squirrel and a duck live deep in the woods in an old white cabin where they dine every day on pumpkin soup, until one day …

This comic masterpiece by Jane Austen’s favorite poet describes what started out as a quiet expedition to the country. Read online at archive.org.

The little tugboat wants to sail on the big waters, until he meets the sea.

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Tootle wants to play in the meadow, but engineer Bill knows he has to stay on the track, no matter what. Later editions have fewer pages.

First published in 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Most recent editions have been abridged and some have had the religious themes suppressed. It gave birth to the genre of Robinsonnade. Read online at archive.org.

His studies at Harvard interrupted by vision problems, the author embarked as a merchant seaman aboard the brig Pilgrim in 1834 on a voyage to Alta California, still under Mexican rule. After helping to cure and load a cargo of cow hides, he was transferred to the Alert and made an eastward passage of Cape Horn in the dead of winter. Read online at Hathitrust.

A young orphan girl spends the summer with two families, hoping that one will adopt her.

A little boy named Andy was interested in lions. On his way to school, he met a real lion with a thorn stuck in its paw.

This time travel adventure takes Chris Mason and Mr. Wicker back to colonial days.

Tenth-century Viking twins are shipwrecked on the Scottish coast and seek to avenge the death of their father.

One night as he was fast asleep, Nathan heard something in his toy chest …

Born in a workhouse, Oliver runs away from an abusive mistress to seek his fortune in London where he falls in with a gang of pickpockets. Read online at archive.org: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.

The adventures of Mr. Pickwick, his servant Sam Weller and his friends. Read online at archive.org.

Founded in 1873, this popular magazine was edited by Mary Mapes Dodge until her death in 1905. It published many well known and popular children’s authors, including Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Joel Chandler Harris and Mark Twain. It ceased publication in 1940, although a few issues were published in 1943.

Read for free online at HathiTrust or at the University of Florida.

Jenny the bus may be old, but she has a golden button on her dashboard that will take you anywhere. This is an abridged edition of Jenny, the Bus that Nobody Loved.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective, and illustrated by Sidney Paget.

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Alleyne Edricson joins The White Company of English mercenaries and serves as squire to Sir Nigel Loring during their campaigns in France and Spain under the Black Prince. Read online at archive.org.