Kim O’Hara grows up unsupervised in British India and is recruited into the secret service. Read online at archive.org.

After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.

Five children on holiday discover a sand fairy in a local quarry -- and it grants their wishes, with sometimes surprising results. Download our free ebook: EPUB. This is for ebook readers. Click the button, and the ePub file will go to your default ... View More

The five children who discovered It find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace. Read online at gutenberg.org.... View More

Originally a short story, then made into a play, this is a more developed story of the orphan girl left at a boarding school who is reduced to servitude, then rescued by a friend of her father’s. Read online at archive.org.... View More

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

The five children re-encounter the Psammead—the “It” in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children’s other discovery, the Amulet. R... View More

The first of the boarding school stories set at Lawrenceville in the era after the end of caning, when “between masters and students there was an armed and exceedingly wary neutrality.” Read online at archive.org.... View More

A young Scot goes out to South Africa where he becomes caught up in a native rebellion. This is a later American edition.

Adventures at a boys’ boarding school - more football than baseball. Read online at archive.org.

The Prodigious Hickey has moved on but life continues at The Lawrenceville School. Read online at Hathitrust.

Barnabas Barty comes into the possession of a vast fortune and determines to use it to become a gentleman. He must first knock his father down, although as respectfully as may be. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

First published in 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Most rece... View More

Wooden doll, Maria Poppet, describes her many adventures in 19th century London. Read online at Internet Archive.

Alleyne Edricson joins The White Company of English mercenaries and serves as squire to Sir Nigel Loring during their campaigns in France and Spain under the Black Prince. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Miss Elizabeth Mapp leads the social life of Tilling from her fine old family home of Mallards. Read online at Hathitrust.

Jack crawls into a fairy’s nest and is soon off on a fantastic journey.

Five children, one only a baby, are abandoned on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez. Marian, the eldest, keeps them alive for seven years, waiting for the baby to grow big enough to survive the sea voyage to safety. Read online at Hathitrust . Read... View More

The story of a cow horse and his various masters.

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While on the train to Berlin to visit his grandmother Emil has his money stolen. He gathers a team of children to track down the thief. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Fresh from her triumph at the Riseholme fete, Lucia takes a holiday in Tilling and a clash of titans ensues as Miss Mapp struggles to retain her position of social leader. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Two English boys camp out on an island in a pond.

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This was the fourth fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank. The British edition was published in 1931 and had a different dust jacket. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Pioneer adventures of a girl growing up in northern Wisconsin.

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In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.

Velvet enters her horse, The Piebald, in England’s premier steeplechase -- The Grand National.

The curious lobster is curious about the dry land and travels thither where he meets up with a bear and a badger and has numerous adventures. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Two girls from England are on holiday in Bruges, Belgium and meet the littlest orphan, Madeleine.

Hans and his sister must help keep the family going while their father is ill.

Jane is abused as a child by her aunt and at school and develops a philosophy of radical self-centeredness. One of the first modern novels.

Peter buys a model ship from an antique store for “all the money he has in the world -- and a little bit more” and discovers it can carry its owners through space and time.

When Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy refuses to dance with her Elizabeth Bennett is confirmed in her prejudice that he is filled with pride. On further acquaintance she is forced to revise her opinion.

An exciting tale about dogs and donkeys and smugglers. The British edition has the hyphen.

When separated-at-birth twins Penny and Pam discover each other, they determine to put their family back together.

When Johnny’s hand injury prevents him working as a silversmith’s apprentice, he joins the American rebels as a messenger. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Dinah and Dorinda determine to be naughty while their father is away.

As Maria arrives at Moonacre Manor she catches a glimpse of the little white horse.

The story of Tim and Cissy, growing up on Nantucket and the rainbows they shared.

Twins Nicola and Lawrie Marlow join their four older sisters at Kingscote School.

Timothy and Hew join forces with Davy Jones to foil the villainous Dan Scumbril and his dastarly crew in their attempt to take over the ocean depths.

Moomintroll, Sniff and Snufkin discover a (magician’s) hat and amazing adventures follow. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Jo March has married Professor Bhaer and started a boarding school for boys on advanced lines. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

In this, her first adventure, Pippi moves in to Villa Villekulla.

The first battles of the War of the White Roses and the Red are interrupted by a mysterious Uncle.

An inquisitive little rabbit named Edward and his friends Hoppy Toad and Joe Possum learn about automobiles, canoeing, roller skating, the circus and other things important to the safety and pleasure of growing animals.

Two orphaned sisters are sent by their uncle to a boarding school run on the lines made infamous by Dotheboys Hall and run away as soon as they can.

On a lavender blue day Anna Lavinia learns she is to visit her Aunt Sophia Maria, so she sets off next day with an umbrella, a gardenia bush, a carpetbag full of pawpaw jelly and her cat Strawberry.

Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The hard winter that Uncle Analdas, the old rabbit, prophesies comes to pass in more ways than one for Little Georgie and the other animals of Rabbit Hill when the Folks go away and leave a neglectful caretaker with a mean dog in charge. This is the ... View More

David and Chuck are approached by their neighbor Mr. Bass to build a space ship.

This time travel adventure takes Chris Mason and Mr. Wicker back to colonial days.

Orphaned by the war, Johnny learns that he might have family in the west of England and sets out in search of them.

Digory’s uncle sends him and his neighbor Polly to the land between the worlds and he comes back with the cruel witch Jadis. In an attempt to get rid of her they all end up in the newborn world of Narnia.

When Nate’s chicken lays an enormous egg, every one is anxious to see what will hatch. Read online at archive.org.... View More

An Anglo-Indian orphan girl and and an English invalid find their cure in a garden.

Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris Wheel for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Junior Literary Guild edition has a library binding. A prepublication binding in yellow cl... View More

On a vacation with their mother and stepfather, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha find themselves overwhelmed with a lakeful of magical adventures after Mark captures an ancient turtle that seems to have extraordinary powers. Read online at archive.o... View More

When Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters find themselves in realtive poverty with only the income of ten thousand pounds ($100,000 per year in current money) to live on, she determines to move to a different part of the country, near a cousin who o... View More

David and Chuck are off in their spaceship to rescue the world from the Brumblitron.

When Eddie’s cousin Priscilla joins him at science camp he is certain she will ruin it for him.

While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A light on the mountain brings conflict to the Land Between the Mountains, and the only Minnipins who stand in the breach are a band of outcasts. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.

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Sam Gribley takes to the woods and lives by himself for a year.

Three children are invited to spend the summer at Green Knowe - they must be able to swim - and explore the river. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When Jenny starts hearing people’s thoughts, her brothers figure out how to cash in.

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Laura, Lydia, James and Kip put the old wishing well on its mettle, and it delivers. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A yellow lab, an ancient bull terrier and a Siamese cat make their way home across two hundred and fifty miles of Canadian wilderness.

Following the clues scratched on a window in their attic Eleanor and Eddy embark on a series of adventures across time and space. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Fleeing the threat of boarding schools, the four Linnet children leave their grandmother’s house and find refuge with their uncle and enter a magical kingdom. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The Watercress River has been dammed. Five intrepid Minnipins set out to find the cause and save the people of the Land Between the Mountains.

An omnibus of boys boarding school stories containing The Prodigious Hickey, The Varmint, and The Tennessee Shad.... View More

Three children spend the summer holiday on Exmoor where they find ponies, friends and adventure. This is a somewhat shorter version of the original work. The original illustrations have also been dispensed with.

Susan and Colin discover that the lost Weirstone hangs on her bracelet, and all the powers of evil are out to steal it. This is the revised edition.

The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued from the goblins by Curdie, a miner’s son.

When the Finches move into Number Seven Pride Street, they discover something in the cellar. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The Marlows help a young boy return to his father, but it requires a dangerous sea voyage.

A classic story of a half-dog half-wolf who is brutalized by a bad master during the Klondike gold rush, but finally finds a man he can love.

A young orphan girl spends the summer with two families, hoping that one will adopt her.