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Books in the Families genre:

A Horse’s Tale (1907)

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Twain could do sentiment - and bathos - none better, as he shows here. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock

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Anne of Green Gables (1908)

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Anne, with an ‘e,’ is an orphan girl, mistakenly sent instead of a boy orphan, to Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert on Prince Edward Island. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): M. A. Claus
W. A. J. Claus

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The Cheerful Smugglers (1908)

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Tom and Laura decide to charge themselves a tariff on everything they buy, to build up Bobbert's college fund. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

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The House of Arden (1908)

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Edred and Elfrida travel into the past to search for the lost treasure of the House of Arden and succeed in finding their lost father. Read online at Gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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Meggie: A Day-Dream (1908)

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A collection of short sentimental essays about an orphan girl and her aunt and grandmother.

Author(s): Victoria F. C. Percy
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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Anne of Avonlea (1909)

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Anne is about to start her first term teaching at the Avonlea school, although she will still continue her studies at home with Gilbert. READ NOW.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

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The Seven Ages of Childhood (1909)

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’First the Infant in its Mother’s Arms’ … to the ‘Last Scene of All’ illustrations to verses by Carolyn Wells. First appeared in The Ladies’ Home Journal. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Carolyn Wells
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Susanna and Sue (1909)

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Susanna leaves her neglectful husband to stay with the Shakers, and manages to shake him up. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s): Alice Barber Stephens
N. C. Wyeth

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Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)

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Kilmeny cannot speak until Eric is threatened by her jealous foster brother. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

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Rewards and Fairies (1910)

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Puck returns to take Dan and Una on further magical journeys into the past. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Frank Craig

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Rewards and Fairies (1910)

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Puck returns to take Dan and Una on further magical journeys into the past. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Frank Craig

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The Children of the New Forest (1911)

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During the English civil war, a family of children take to the woods to escape from the Parliamentary forces. Read for free online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Story Girl (1911)

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Sara Stanley is the ‘story girl’ who entertains her family and friends with stories from the satiric to the macabre. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

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The Wonderful Garden: or the Three C’s (1911)

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Caroline, Charlotte and Charles are staying with their great-uncle and try to work magic with a book on the language of flowers - and get their heart’s desire. Read online at gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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The Golden Road (1913)

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In this sequel to The Story Girl, the children produce their own magazine and begin to grow up. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

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The Jack-Knife Man (1913)

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A Mississippi river rat finds himself with two children and decides to get them a mother. It was made into a movie. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Hanson Booth

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1913)

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When his uncles die, Cedric becomes heir to his grandfather’s estate, and soon takes over the old gentleman’s heart as well. Reginald Birch did a new suite of illustrations for this edition. The scan is of the original edition. Read onlin... View More

Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s): Reginald Bathurst Birch

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The Terrible Twins (1913)

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A pair of twins, brother and sister, terrorize the community of Little Deeping, to say nothing of the cats. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Hanson Booth

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Wet Magic (1913)

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When Francis unwittingly summons a mermaid, she and Mavis, Bernard and Kathleen must rescue it from a sideshow and return it to the sea. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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The Intervening Lady (1914)

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We follow the Lady Noggs as she grows up as head of the Grandison family. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Hanson Booth

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