Family & Relationships
Rilla of Ingleside
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…
Emily Climbs
Emily Byrd Starr longs to attend Queen's Academy to earn her teaching license, but her tradition-bound relatives at New Moon refuse. She is …
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…
Wives and Daughters
Molly and her father have lived alone since the death of her mother. Now Mr Gibson decides it will be in Molly's best interests for him to m…
The Bobbsey Twins in the Country
The second book in The Bobbsey Twins series finds the two sets of twins experiencing life in the country during the first part of their summ…
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
This is the second of Trollope's four Irish novels: A complicated, funny and touching story about family, neighbors and tenants, debt, jeal…
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…
Veronica
Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having lost her own mother, is “adopted” by a neighbour, Gertr…
Seven Little Australians
This is the story of seven incorrigible children living near Sydney in the 1880’s with their military-man father, and a stepmother who is sc…
Elsie's New Relations
In this ninth book in the classic Elsie Dinsmore series, the family finishes their summer at the seaside and returns to Ion. The narrative t…
Neighbors
The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conc…
Understood Betsy
Sickly and sheltered, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified to hear she must be sent away to live with the "Putney cousins." Ac…
The Rose Garden Husband
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…
The Jumping-Off Place
Set in 1910, "The Jumping-Off Place" is the story of four orphaned children who leave their home in Wisconsin to "prove up&qu…
The Dutch Twins
The Dutch Twins invites young listeners to explore the vibrant culture and daily life of the Netherlands through the eyes of two adventurous…
New Chronicles of Rebecca
In New Chronicles of Rebecca, Kate Douglas Wiggin invites listeners back to the charming town of Riverboro, where the spirited Rebecca Randa…
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. …
Alice Adams
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20…
Helen Lester
Twelve year old Helen is determined to be a good girl, but the harder she tries, the worse her days go. Is there any hope? And what made suc…
Christie's Old Organ
Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an…