Young Readers Books

Types of Children's Literature

Walter Barnes

Types of Children's Literature is a collection of the World's Best Literature for Children, For Use in Colleges, Normal Schools and Library Schools...

Captains Courageous - A Story of the Grand Banks

Rudyard Kipling

Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a ..

Count Bunker

J. Storer Clouston

Count Bunker is the sequel to J. Storer Clouston's wildly popular comedic romp, The Lunatic at Large. In this equally amusing follow-up, old pals Baron Rudolph von Blitzenberg and Francis Mandell-Essi..

Pollyanna

Eleanor H. Porter

Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same..

The Poor Little Rich Girl

Eleanor Gates

The Poor Little Rich Girl is fantasy fiction novel for children written by Eleanor Gates, an American playwright who created seven plays that were staged on Broadway. Her best known work was the ..

Johnny Bear, and Other Stories

Ernest Thompson

Johnny Bear, and Other Stories is a collection of animals fiction short stories for children written by Ernest Thompson, an American writer, actor, and director. He won an Academy Award for Best ..

The Religion of the Ancient Celts

J. A. MacCulloch

The Religion of the Ancient Celts is a celtic mythology book written by John Arnott MacCulloch, who is best known as one of Scotland's pre-eminent scholars on Celtic Religion and Mythology...

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages)

Noah Webster

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) compiled by Noah Webster, an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and proli..