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Among The Red Skins
[english | 1882]W G Kingston
Summary: [Heroes In Black Skins by Booker T Washington. Booker Taliaferro Washington April 5 1856 - November 14 1915 was an American educator orator author and leader of the African-American community. He was freed from slavery at the age of nine and after working at several menial jobs in West Virginia he earned his way through an education at Hampton Institute and Wayland Seminary. Upon recommendation of ...]
Genres: [young readers | adventure] Downloads: 351
Captain Mugford
[english | 1869]W G Kingston
Summary: [Captain Mugford by W H G Kingston. While these thoughts were passing through my mind I heard the first mate say that be could make out something white on the shore which he took for a tent or a boat s sail. As we drew nearer it became evident that there was a tent but no human being was stirring that we could see. Nearer still a boat was observed drawn up on the rocks. On further inspection she ...]
Genres: [nautical | fiction and literature | young readers] Downloads: 140
Ralph Clavering
[english | 1868]W G Kingston
Summary: [Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States. She has contributed to the feminist movement with such works as her memoir The Woman Warrior ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 167
The History Of Little Peter The Ship Boy
[english | 1873]W G Kingston
Summary: [Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States. She has contributed to the feminist movement with such works as her memoir The Woman Warrior ...]
Genres: [young readers | nautical | fiction and literature] Downloads: 170
The Mines And Its Wonders
[english | 1898]W G Kingston
Summary: [Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States. She has contributed to the feminist movement with such works as her memoir The Woman Warrior ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 407
The Perils And Adventures Of Harry Skipwith
[english | 1868]W G Kingston
Summary: [Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States. She has contributed to the feminist movement with such works as her memoir The Woman Warrior ...]
Genres: [adventure | nautical | young readers] Downloads: 87
The Brown Fairy Book
[english | 1904]Andrew Lang
Excerpts: [... safety and rode off. As the days went by the thorn of love rankled in his heart, and he became the very example of lovers, and grew faint and feeble. ...... stone which he meant to let fall on the prince's head. But his mate said, 'Let us look into the nest first for to kill an innocent person would condemn ...... said the king: 'The woman you see there in chains is my wife she is ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 289
The Green Fairy Book
[english | 1892]Andrew Lang
Summary: [Fairy tales gathered from the folklore of many countries and some original tales by such authors as Madame dAulnoy and the Comte de Caylus. Includes The Half-Chick The Fisherman and his Wife The Story of the Three Bears The Snuff-Box and Jorinde and Joringel.]
Genres: [young readers | fantasy | short story collection] Downloads: 69
The Lilac Fairy Book
[english | 1910]Andrew Lang
Excerpts: [... Yet some say that it is the end of all thieves.'. There was no one in sight, and they carefully examined every part of it. 'I wonder how it feels ...... court and began to cry, which was the strangest thing of all.'. On hearing this the king walked to the window and stood for a few minutes with his back ...... it, till my hand was taken again, and I felt the ground under me. The ...]
Genres: [young readers | fantasy | audiobook] Downloads: 245
The Olive Fairy Book
[english | 1907]Andrew Lang
Excerpts: [... at pleasing children, not 'grown-ups,' at whom the old French writers directed their romances, but have hunted for fairy tales in all quarters, not ...... trick Ismenor hoped to play us. Well, we will have our revenge, whatever it costs us to get it. Only we must be very careful not to let him guess that ...... your life serving the forester's daughters. Come with me to the palace, ...]
Genres: [fantasy | young readers | short story collection] Downloads: 127
The Orange Fairy Book
[english | 1906]Andrew Lang
Excerpts: [... do without reading any of the book. This appears to be the philosophy of prefaces in general, and perhaps authors might be more daring and candid ...... and said to it:. 'Sipao, Sipao, I want a town as great as that of Insato, the King of Pita and I wish to be chief over it.'. Then all along the ...... give me but a piece. You know what is behind you, but you have no knowledge of ...]
Genres: [young readers | fantasy | audiobook] Downloads: 400
The Pink Fairy Book
[english | 1897]Andrew Lang
Excerpts: [... the horse a good beating. This offended the horse and made him angry, and when the young man stretched out his hand to untie his head, he made no further ...... together, when the man was resting by the roadside, eating his dinner. Now this strange friendship was observed by the Tanuki, a wicked, quarrelsome ...... have only just been made. The thing you see there is the moon the ...]
Genres: [young readers | fantasy] Downloads: 124
The Red True Story Book
[english | 1895]Andrew Lang
Excerpts: [... how you American fellows work.. 'Wilson was no bad hand at tracking himself, and I was put on my mettle at once. We began, and I was flurried at first, ...... behind the boles of trees, or the bodies of their dead horses, they answered the fire shot for shot, coolly, with perfect aim, without haste or hurry. The ...... backs.'. It was the English backs that the French saw that day: ...]
Genres: [history | young readers | short story collection] Downloads: 164
A Fourth Form Friendship
[english | 1913]Angela Brazil
Excerpts: [... with me, she said reproachfully. I was counting upon you to hold my water tin while I painted.. Keith detached his mind from tropical Africa with ...... listen with an air of don't-care indifference, and do just the same next time. Yet if her aunt could have given her one warm kiss, the battle would have ...... to reverse her unfavourable opinion. I'm glad we shall be eight in ...]
Genres: [young readers | fiction and literature] Downloads: 250
A Harum Scarum Schoolgirl
[english | 1920]Angela Brazil
Summary: [Angela Brazil (pronounced brazzle) (30 November 1868 ? 13 March 1947) was one of the first British writers of modern schoolgirls stories written from the characters point of view and intended primarily as entertainment rather than moral instruction. In the first half of the twentieth century she published nearly 50 books of girls fiction the vast majority being boarding school stories. She also ...]
Genres: [young readers | fiction and literature] Downloads: 424
A Pair Of Schoolgirls
[english | 1912]Angela Brazil
Excerpts: [... don't you think in me you'd find A candidate suited to your mind. No bookworm I, but fond of sports, Hockey or games of other sorts At acting I can ...... for you but it's true, all the same, and I can't take back my words.. How can it be true.. Agnes put on her hat hastily and seized her satchel. You'd ...... two steps, entered the low-ceiled, oak-panelled dining-room, and rushed ...]
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A Patriotic Schoolgirl
[english | 1918]Angela Brazil
Excerpts: [... keen survey of that portion of her sister's face which was not buried in the pillow. Oh. the atmosphere's damp, is it. she remarked. Dona, you're ...... you're late for a meal you put a penny in the missionary box.. Marjorie walked into the large dining-hall with Mollie Simpson. She felt she had made, ...... refusals to record tender particulars and though Patricia's enemies were ...]
Genres: [young readers | fiction and literature | war] Downloads: 187
Bosom Friends
[english | 1910]Angela Brazil
Excerpts: [... van, and has gone on to Whitecastle. I was obliged to telegraph about it, but I hope we may get it this evening. Come along. That's our train over ...... hand. Of course I like being with you best, sweetest only sometimes, when you're reading or lying down, it is nice to have somebody to talk to. I ...... replied Isobel. But I think they were horrid balls.. So they were. Hugh ...]
Genres: [young readers | fiction and literature] Downloads: 306
For The Sake Of The School
[english | 1915]Angela Brazil
Excerpts: [... walked down the short, grassy road that led to the ferry. To the south stretched the wide pool of the river, blue as the heaven above where it caught ...... initiated all fresh undertakings, and her enthusiasm carried them forward with success. Hard-as-nails the girls sometimes called her, for she coddled ...... accustomed to Miss Teddington's new time-tables. Now, however, they ...]
Genres: [young readers | fiction and literature] Downloads: 163
Loyal To The School
[english | 1921]Angela Brazil
Excerpts: [... will be certain activities offered you, and you will each be allowed to choose which you wish to follow. I consider that two sides of our natures which ...... her that she was almost stubborn about it, and would have waged its battles as blindly as the traditional cavalier who fought for the crown though it ...... to Marion, who was breezily sympathetic. How stupid and ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | young readers] Downloads: 85