Young Readers Books

Legends That Every Child Should Know

  [english | ]  

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Summary: [Legends That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Great Legends Of All Times For Young People by Hamilton Wright Mabie. The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects Juvenile Fiction Legends Myths Fables General Social Science Folklore]
Genres: [young readers | myth] Downloads: 94

Leslie Ross

  [english | 1871]  

Charles Bruce

Excerpts: [... I think not, for among a number of boys there must be many who would view the consequences likely to arise from indulging in a senseless piece of mischief ...... the shore he felt he should never be able to accomplish it. However, he struggled bravely, occasionally cheered by an encouraging word from Crusoe. ...... prowess.. Yes, I see, papa, but it is nothing compared to the sea.. ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 292

Letters From A Cat

  [english | 1879]  

Helen Hunt Jackson

Summary: [The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett is a book published in 1923 by A. Trevor Barker. According to Theosophical teachings the letters were written between 1880 and 1884 by Kuthumi and Morya to A.P. Sinnett. The letters were previously quoted in several theosophical books (e.g. The Occult World by Sinnett) but not published in full. The book was both praised and criticized by theosophists. Dr H.N. ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 333

Lezioni E Racconti Per I Bambini

  [italian | 1882]  

Ida Baccini

Summary: [Ida Baccini (1850?1911) was an Italian writer for children. Baccini edited a journal for girls Cordelia.]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 273

Lgendes Pour Les Enfants

  [french | 1861]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... de ces vques d'autrefois mais les moines qui, en ce temps-l, ne savaient pas ce que c'est que la critique, acceptaient cela pour de l'histoire. ...... chaume du paysan mais il ne fallait pas que les gens, le voyant si familier, s'oubliassent et lui manquassent de respect. Il se faisait, dans ce cas, ...... le prendre par un bras Dagobert se lve, prompt comme l'clair, menaant comme ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 27

Liesje Van Den Lompenmolen

  [dutch | 1886]  

W Heimburg

Excerpts: [... te bezoeken. Ik zou er immers dood mee verlegen worden.. Het zijn volstrekt geen onbeschaafde menschen, riep Nelly uit dat kan slechts grootmama ...... zij had wel van schaamte willen schreien en zag haar broeder smeekend aan. Maar het jonge meisje was met deze weinige woorden tevreden. Goede Army, ...... opgegroeid zij bezat de spreekwoordelijke schoonheid der molenaars-dochters ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 49

Life And Perambulations Of A Mouse

  [english | 1784]  

Dorothy Kilner

Summary: [Dorothy Kilner (pseudonyms M. P. and Mary Pelham 1755?1836) was a prolific English writer of childrens books during the late eighteenth century.]
Genres: [young readers | fantasy | fiction and literature] Downloads: 144

Light On The Child Path

  [english | 1918]  

William Allen Bixler

Excerpts: [... Changed 88. Feeding the Multitude 90. The Death of Jesus 93. Jesus Our Savior 94. Moments of Prayer 96. Morning Praise (poem) 98. Evening ...... think of her and love her, too. Have you ever thought how she toils and cares for you. She works for you every day-gets your meals, breakfast, dinner, ...... ways. Man has some gifts that woman does not have one is helpful to the other. ...]
Genres: [young readers | religion] Downloads: 313

Lill Travels In Santa Claus Land

  [english | 1878]  

Ella Farman

Excerpts: [... to see him in his own home, you know. But what was I to do. The gate was entirely too high to climb over, and there wasn't even a crack to peek through.. Here ...... looked very much surprised at their surroundings. Farther on were china dolls, that looked quite grown up, and I suppose were ready to pull and a gardener ...... said Santa Claus, stopping to shake a tree, and the ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 150

Lisbeth Longfrock

  [english | 1907]  

Hans Aanrud

Excerpts: [... pigs and the goats were out to-day. At this moment they were busy with their separate affairs and behaving very well,-the pigs over on the sunny side ...... calf in the early summer. During the last few weeks there had not been milk enough even for Randi's and Lisbeth's coffee. To go to Svehaugen,[4] the ...... people in the kitchen,-one a young servant maid in the middle of the ...]
Genres: [young readers | audiobook] Downloads: 366

Little Alice Palace

  [english | 1872]  

Anonymous

Summary: [Little Alice S Palace by Anonymous. There had been a long and dreary winter and now the bright spring was coming with its buds and leaves and flowers to gladden the earth that had all the time seemed to be dead.]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 496

Little Bear At Work And At Play

  [english | ]  

Frances Margaret Fox

Excerpts: [... AT WORK AND AT PLAY. FRANCES MARGARET FOX. Author of Doings of Little Bear, Adventures of Sonny Bear and The Kinderkins. Illustrated by. WARNER ...... the cup, but that was not enough. I shall have to step over to the spring.. Remember how the hare lost the race, Friend Treetoad warned him. Oh, ...... hour passed quickly, and then Little Bear suddenly remembered that he had started ...]
Genres: [young readers | fiction and literature] Downloads: 29

Little Cinderella

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Summary: [Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper is a classic folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune. The word cinderella has by analogy come to mean one whose attributes are unrecognised or one who ...]
Genres: [young readers | short story] Downloads: 347

Little Downy

  [english | 1822]  

Catherine Parr Traill

Summary: [A improving tale for children about the sad life of a mouse narrated by a mother to her little boy with tedious moralizing.]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 8

Little Ferns For Fanny Little Friends

  [english | 1854]  

Fanny Fern

Excerpts: [... find out that it was way across the room, instead of close by. How should you like to tire yourself out crawling way across the carpet, to pick up a pretty ...... smile her face used to wear in dear papa's life-time. Floy became very tired of that close room. There were no pretty pictures on the walls, like those ...... ever brought your satchel to school for you.-that you have ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 155

Little Folks Handy Book

  [english | 1910]  

Adelia Beard

Excerpts: [... You may have as many cards as you like, though twelve are all that are used to make the things shown in our photographs. [Illustration: FIG. 1-Cut ...... 16 shows two clothespin horses attached to a. =Berry-basket Wagon=. with clothespin wheels. The driver is a clothespin held up by a ...... bend the two sides well up and crease them along the bottom until the boat resembles Fig. ...]
Genres: [young readers | instructional | non fiction] Downloads: 168

Little Jack Rabbit Adventures

  [english | 1921]  

David Cory

Summary: [Little Jack Rabbit S Adventures by David Cory. IT was a wild story that came to the ears of Little Jack Rabbit for as he came hopping down the Shady Forest Path a whole troop of his playmates ran out to meet him and one cried one thing and one another but the words which he heard most plainly were ]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 455

Little Jack Rabbit And The Squirrel Brothers

  [english | 1921]  

David Corey

Excerpts: [... BOOKS. (Trademark Registered). BY DAVID CORY. LITTLE JACK RABBIT'S ADVENTURES LE JACK RABBIT AND DANNY FOX LITTLE JACK RABBIT AND THE SQUIRREL ...... you know.. This seemed a splendid idea, and at once all the squirrels set to work, and in a short time quite a fleet was ready to be launched. There ...... thought. And when that old squirrel had thought out a thing seriously he was ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 329

Little Lucy Wonderful Globe

  [english | 1871]  

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Excerpts: [... not America. Lucy knew that her elderly brother understood what it was, but it was not worth troubling her head about, only somehow it made ships go ...... herself. She had her dolls, to be sure, and the little dog Don, to play with, and sometimes Mr. Bunker would let her make funny things with the dough, ...... for her own little plump, pinky hands did almost tingle to handle and ...]
Genres: [young readers | fiction and literature] Downloads: 381

Little Maid Marian

  [english | 1908]  

Amy Ella Blanchard

Excerpts: [... From the ladder one could reach a long limb of a scraggy apple tree upon which hung early apples nearly ripe. Marian went up the ladder very carefully, ...... on the step. Dorothy made a wry face. Toothacre or some kind of acher I should think, she said to herself. She looked sour enough to be several?kinds ...... height, plump and keen-eyed. She wore an old-fashioned gown?and a ...]
Genres: [religion | young readers] Downloads: 306