Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

In the eighteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom goes up against foreign spies during the build-up to World War I.

When my mother made Raggedy Ann for me, Bessie's mother made a rag doll for her, for we two always played together.

A young man named Antonio borrows money from a merchant of Venice named Shylock, so that he can court a fine lady he wishes to marry.

In the second of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom overhauls a speedboat and once again faces the Happy Harry gang in a tale of theft and adventure.

"e;The conquest of Mexico, an extensive empire with a numerous and warlike population, by a mere handful of Spaniards, is one of the romances of history.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women.

The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the longest-running series of children's novles.

More than five hundred years ago there lived a diligent man called Sir Thomas Malory, who wrote in English words many of the beautiful Welsh tales about King Arthur's Knights, that the people of Wales loved so well.

Here is the fourth book in the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn series.

Freshly returned from his voyages Doctor Dolittle decides to expand his zoo to include a home for crossbred dogs and a club for rodents.

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Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others' honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem.

There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose-jointed, looking me squarely in the face in a straightforward, honest manner, a twinkle where her shoe-button eyes reflect the electric light.

Wherefore if it will please you to read that which is hereinafter set forth, you will be told of how Sir Launcelot slew the great Worm of Corbin; of the madness that afterward fell upon him, and of how a most noble, gentle, and beautiful lady, hight the Lady Elaine the Fair, lent him aid and succor at a time of utmost affliction to him, and so brought him back to health again.

'Among the Forest People' includes twenty charming tales about the everyday life of the forest creatures.

Here is the fourth book in the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn series.

Ragged Dick is a children's novel by Horatio Alger, Jr.

I believe that King Arthur was the most honorable, gentle Knight who ever lived in all the world.

Tom Swift Omnibus #2 contains a trio of stories: In the fourth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom and his father, Barton Swift, race to build a submersible for the chance at a government prize, but must face off agaist a rival firm in pursuit of sunken treasure.

The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the longest-running series of children's novles.

King Ferdinand's plan to ban ladies from his court to focus on his studies seems like a great one - until the Princess of France and her friends arrive and he falls in love!

Their battles of wits are legendary, but Benedick has sworn off women and Beatrice has vowed that she will never marry a man.

Pieter Vanderloon was a very fortunate man.

The story tells of how unscrupulous millionaire Benjamin Scobell decides to build a casino on the small Mediterranean island of Mervo, dragging in the unwitting heir to the throne to help.

In the twenty-first of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom asks for military exemption to focus on the scientific side of the war effort.

The greatest love story ever told.

Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine.

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In the twenty-fifth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom is employed to design and build an an electric locomotive with exacting specifications, but competitive forces introduce both crime and crisis.

In the fifteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom invents a searchlight for the purpose of tracking down smugglers.

This is a collection of seven short stories by Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist best known as author of the novel ''Little Women.

In the nineteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom lends a hand to a Peruvian construction project, and develops a new blasting powder.

Right Ho, Jeeves is the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves.

Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover, eighteen-year-old Jack Martin, and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island.

After being recently orphaned Rose must live with her aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family.

The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the longest-running series of children's novles.

In the tenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom goes hunting for ivory in Africa, and encounters an adventurer who is trying to rescue a captured missionary team.

Prince Hamlet's father is dead.

This story is about Baree's survival after being separated from his parents as a young pup.

Ruth Plumly Thompson was hand picked by L.

The Magic World is an influential collection of twelve short stories by E.

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She stooped once more to pick up something which had fallen out when the cover was jarred open.

For generations L.