Family & Relationships
Five Minute Stories
Another collection of poems and short stories by Laura Richards. Yes, these are all short and mostly all delightfully innocent and sweet. So…
Rosemary in Search of a Father
Rosemary lives at home with her mother. She hopes to find her father one day. - Summary by ShrimpPhish
Letters to His Children
The strong, vigorous, exalted character of a doting father who loved playing with his children and their pets, even while serving as the Pre…
Ruffles and Danny
A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shor…
Peggy's Trial
Ten-year old Peggy Clayton and her two younger brothers, Teddy and Harry, live with their father, Dr. Clayton, and Nurse, a woman who has ta…
The Luck of the Dudley Grahams
The Luck of the Dudley Grahams is the story of the four Graham children and their recently widowed mother, trying to make ends meet by takin…
Sunshine and Snow
A harrowing and dramatic story of four siblings from Scotland who are poor and orphaned. The eldest brother, Arthur, is guardian to his two …
The Bobbsey Twins at Home
This is the eighth book in the "Bobbsey Twins" series. In it Flossie and Freddie find, in a big snow storm, the lost father of Tom…
Fairhaven
Fairhaven is the story of a very wealthy couple who lived in New York City in a palatial mansion. They had all the trappings of the super ri…
Watch and Wait
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves bef…
Rich and Humble
This is the first story in the Woodville collection of tales about the interesting people in Woodville. As the characters grow, they learn …
What Katy Did at School
Following Katy's recovery in What Katy Did, Katy and Clover go to Hillsover, a boarding school. Together with their new friend Rosamond Redd…
Consequences
Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…
The Birds' Christmas Carol
Born on Christmas Day, little Carol Bird is a gentle soul who touches every life around her. Despite physical illness, Carol is loved by eve…
The Mother
Life is difficult for The Mother, with a household of husband and children, when her crone of a mother-in-law comes to live with them. It is…
Pollyanna's Debt of Honor
This is the fifth Pollyanna Glad Book. Pollyanna is kept busy teaching her famous "glad game" to others and thus spreading her own…
Friendship
The idea, so common in the ancient writers, is not all a poetic conceit, that the soul of a man is only a fragment of a larger whole, and go…
The Little Colonel's Holidays
"What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?" they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking &quo…
The Confessions of a Daddy
The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live q…
The House by the Medlar Tree
In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nut…