Young Adult Literature
The Ontario Readers
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Various
The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…
Miss Grantley's Girls
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Thomas Archer
The author Thomas Archer lived 1830 – 1893; he wrote several juvenile stories, and this book: Miss Grantley’s Girls – And the Stories She To…
T'Aragam
Read by Jack W. Regan
Jack W. Regan
Young Max Ransome watched his father die, killed by marauding phantors as they swept through T'Aragam at the bidding of the evil wizard Zado…
His First and Last Appearance
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
The scene of the story is laid partly in Milwaukee, partly in New York. It describes the trials of the orphaned Lachance children. The boy h…
Everybody's Lonesome
Read by Bridget Gaige
Clara E. Laughlin
Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mothe…
It's Like This, Cat
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Emily Neville
This novel won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1964. This delightful story revolves around a 14 year o…
Sintram and His Companions
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Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in dis…
Eddie of Jackson's Gang
Read by Maria Therese
Brother Ernest Ryan
Eddie. That is the only name our young, musically talented hero knew for himself. After being left at a Catholic orphanage as a young child,…
Briarwood Girls
Read by Julia Lestargette Glover
Julia Lestargette Glover
The 'Kindred Spirit' are a group of seven friends who met in their freshman year at Briarwood College. The girls have all sorts of difficul…
The Round Red Stone
Read by Jeff Burton
Jeff Burton
This tale concerns a lad of twelve, who sets off unwillingly on a journey with his uncle. In the course of his adventures, he obtains a ston…
Children's Short Works
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Various
LibriVox's Children's Short Works Collection 018: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Captain Ted
Read by Maria Therese
Mary T. Waggaman
When tragedy hits his family, in the form of a sudden illness to his father, young Teddy Thornton is forced to leave school and find work to…
Bob the Castaway
Read by Nigel Boydell
Frank V. Webster
Frank V Webster was a pseudonym controlled by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the first book packager of books aimed at children. This pseudonym …
Young Adults Short Works Collection
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Various
LibriVox’s Young Adults Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 9 short works of Young Adult fiction in the public domain read by a grou…
There's No Such Thing!
Read by Jeanette Cottrell
Jeanette Cottrell
Have you been losing things lately? Is your dog chasing his tail, your cell phone acting up, or your best friend acting strangely? Well, I'v…
Paula the Waldensian
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Eva Lecomte, Eva Lecomtetranslated Byw. M. Strong and Eva Lecomtetranslated By W. M. Strong
Into the home of an interesting but self-centered family in old France comes Paula, a young orphaned cousin, from the little village of Vill…
The Young Crusoe
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Barbara Hofland
The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy (1829) Novel. At the novel's opening, Charles Crusoe, thirteen years of age, asks his mother if he …
The Candle Star
Read by Michelle Isenhoff
Michelle Isenhoff
Detroit, 1858. After a tantrum, Emily Preston is shipped from her plantation home to her inn-keeping Uncle in Detroit.There Emily meets Mala…
Killgloom Park
Read by Maria Therese
Neil Boyton, S. J.
Join Angelo Daily and his chums during a fun filled summer at Killgloom Park, a Coney Island, New York amusement park in the 1930's. A runaw…
Brenda, Her School and Her Club
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Helen Leah Reed
"Brenda was used to getting her own way. Her parents and older sisters spoiled her, her friends followed her lead, servants obeyed her,…