Family & Relationships
A Sham Princess
Bertram Sinclair and his sister Eleanor are orphans living in squalid conditions. Bert is watching as his sister "Prin" lies sick …
Christmas Comes but Once a Year
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), …
Miss Ingalis
As the story begins, title character Grace Ingalis is a young woman with a middle-class socialite's upbringing who decides to marry a well-o…
The Little Colonel's Hero
In this sixth volume of “The Little Colonel Series” for girls, Lloyd is surprised with a gift for her twelfth birthday, of a summer trip to …
It's Like This, Cat
The Newbery-winning novel about 14-year-old Dave Mitchell, coming of age in New York City in the 1960s. A first-person narrative of everyday…
The Camp Fire Girls in After Years
The sixth volume of the Camp Fire Girls Series will be known as “The Camp Fire Girls in After Years.” In this story the girls will appear as…
The Ordeal of Elizabeth
An unforgettable family saga which revolves around the beautiful young Elizabeth. Elizabeth is orphaned and raised by her spinster aunts. As…
Sowing and Reaping
This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and us…
If I Had a Father
Arthur Gervaise, a London sculptor, learns too late of his love for a woman, while his absentee father secretly tries to serve and help him.…
The Friendship of Anne
This is the story of Sydney Stuart who is sent to a girls' boarding school (to her disgust) with all its difficulties and adventures. Sydney…
The Candle and the Cat
"To the memory of TROLLEY, This little story is dedicated."When young Caro goes to stay with her Aunt and Grandfather, the seminar…
The Paying Guest
George Gissing was one of the most accomplished writers of realism in the Victorian Era. Also The Paying Guest is a great example of realism…
How Bessie Kept House
Bessie desperately wants to be trusted with taking care of the house alone, instead of being bossed by Cousin Jane, while her mother goes on…
A Collection of Family Prayers
That Family-prayer is an indispensible duty, and an important means of religion, are points which are here taken for granted. Among the many…
The Pivot of Civilization
Margaret Sanger's most important and well known work, Sanger argues through her background in medicine the relation between disease and suff…
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Toby Tyler tells the story of a ten year-old orphan who runs away from a foster home to join the traveling circus only to discover his new e…
The Children Of The Abbey
Published in 1796, this novel tells the trials and tribulations of Amanda and Oscar FitzAlan, brother and sister who have to navigate the wo…
Home Education
In proposing these lectures, my original notion was to popularize and amplify the valuable educational hints contained in some two or three …
Charlie and His Kitten Topsy
A darling story of little Charlie and his adventures with cats and kittens and how he became many things. Also how the kitten Topsy, unhapp…
The Barbadoes Girl
Matilda Sophia Hanson, whose father has recently died in their country of Barbadoes in the West Indies, must live for a time with family fri…