Young Readers Books

Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People compiled by Hamilton Wright Mabie, an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer.If ..

Pearl and Periwinkle

Anna Graetz

Pearl and Periwinkle is a novel for children written by Anna Graetz. Excerpts from the book:But even he would have felt sorry for Miss Hetty this morning. To adopt two children when you know noth..

The Boy Allies at Liège; Or, Through Lines of Steel

Clair W. Hayes

The Boy Allies at Liège; Or, Through Lines of Steel is a juvenile fiction story written by Clair W. Hayes whose other writing include The Boy Allies On the Firing Line, The Boy Allies With t..

The Violet Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang’s Violet Fairy Book was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known a..

Good Stories for Great Holidays

Frances Jenkins Olcott

Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading.This volume, though intended also for the children's own reading and for reading aloud, ..

The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 02

Jonathan Scott

Contents of Volume II.     The Story of the Little Hunch-Back     The Story Told by the Christian Merchant     The Story Told by the Sultan of Casgar's Pur..

The Arabian Nights

Andrew Lang

The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in t..

A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia

Alice Turner Curtis

Ruth Pennell and Winifred Merrill lived in Philadelphia. The city had been for some time in the hands of General Howe and the British army. Ruth's father was with Washington at Valley Forge, and the l..