Family & Relationships
The Prairie Wife
GeeGee has fallen, in love that is. Witty, funny, intelligent. Gee Gee's Letters to her friend tell the unscripted story of the adventures i…
The Box-Car Children
Four children: Henry, Jess Violet and Bennie. They are living alone in a stranded boxcar. They find items they need from the dump and a stra…
William
The world’s most confident, most chaos-creating eleven year old boy is at it again in these fourteen glorious and funny 1924 short stories. …
Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms
Pollyanna marries sweetheart Jimmy Pendleton, and together they move to start their married life in Boston. The book follows their many adve…
Eight Cousins
Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and…
Still
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales
Love at Second Sight
In the final instalment of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, three years have passed since Bruce and Edith's marriage was in danger of collapse.…
The Bobbsey Twins
Join the Bobbsey family in this charming series that has captivated young readers for generations. The Bobbsey Twins introduces us to two se…
Madame Bovary
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acut…
The Wind Boy
A gentle, otherworldly novel featuring the mysterious “girl from the mountains” who aides a refugee family in a most unexpected way. Mystica…
So Big
The story of Selina DeJong and her son Dirk, whom she affectionately calls So Big. After the death of her husband, Selina raises So Big on h…
Driven Back To Eden
Frustrated with life in the tenements generally and the negative influences on his children specifically, a father decides to move his famil…
Mother Carey’s Chickens
“When Captain Carey went on his long journey into the unknown and uncharted land, the rest of the Careys tried in vain for a few months to b…
Margy's Queer Inheritance
Helen, Margy and Rose Blythe, displaced from their family home in Long Island, have struggled to carve out a new life in their tiny apartmen…
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery
This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. Th…
Alice Dugdale
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…
Eyebright
"Imagination is like a sail, as Mr. Joyce had said that evening; but sails are good and useful things sometimes, and carry their owners…
A Fair Barbarian
The setting is a small English village in the 19th century. When her niece shows up on her doorstep unexpectedly, a quiet spinster finds her…
The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge
The Bobbsey Twins are back at school after summer vacation, but Danny Rugg, the school bully, is up to mischief again--and this time he's tr…
The Coming of Bill
The Coming of Bill is a humorous exploration of family life through the eyes of Kirk Winfield, a man navigating the ups and downs of marriag…