When nineteen year old Karen Marlow announces she is giving up Oxford to marry a recently widowed man with three children, her family is not amused.

Toby and Joe learn to swim with a triton.

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When two of their friends disappear from the summerhouse, Eleanor and Eddy know they must break their promise and rescue them. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

This novel by the author of Alice weaves between the worlds of faerie and Victorian England. This is a facsimile edition. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Chuck and David are drawn into a battle against evil as Mr. Bass searches for the stolen necklace of Ta that can protect the Mycetians from destruction.

Joel grows up in a logging family in Oregon.

Two Vermont families are reconciled after a three-generation feud.

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Bond’s Bank has been rendered insolvent and the inspectors are due, so Mike Bond hires a butler to burgle the Bank to throw the inspectors off. Little does he know that the butler is actually one of America’s hottest gangsters.

Bond’s Bank has been rendered insolvent and the inspectors are due, so Mike Bond hires a butler to burgle the Bank to throw the inspectors off. Little does he know that the butler is actually one of America’s hottest gangsters.

In this novel of Querbury, the battle lines are drawn between architectural beauty and madness.

Liz Hawtin, orphaned at twelve, is evacuated to the country during the London Blitz and participates in the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk.

An orphaned cousin and an out-of-work Uncle add to Jessica's problems with her schoolmates.

Mark, the ordinary middle sibling, tries to make himself stand out.

In Mike at Wrykyn Mike Jackson wins his first XI colors at Wrykyn in his first year, as set forth in the first part of the serialization of this novel ‘Jackson Junior,’ but two years later his father rusticates him to Sedleigh due to his ... View More

David and Chuck discover Mycetian fossils along the sea shore, and make an emergency trip to the Mushroom Planet to save Prewytt Brumblydge.

A novel accurately depicting teenagers' lives.

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The inventor of Horatio Hornblower, RN made these stories to help his little boy eat when he was sad because his mother was away. The cloth for the second printing binding has a much finer grain.... View More

Steve and Sim are joined by Pete in rescuing a kidnapped middle-eastern prince, but the kidnappers are not going to quietly forego their prey.

First published is 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

There are seven Day children, each born on a different day of the week:
"Monday’s child is fair of face …"

This second edition has new illustrations.