Young Adult Literature
Stephen Mitchell's Journey
Stephen Mitchell is a young man without a place in the world. He hates farming, although he works endless hours on the poor family farm. He …
Little Men
Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband, P…
When Patty Went to College
When Patty Went to College is Jean Webster's first novel, published in 1903. It is a humorous look at life in an all-girls college at the tu…
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…
Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School
In the second installment of Grace Harlowe's adventures, the spirited young heroine navigates the complexities of friendship and loyalty dur…
A Peep Behind the Scenes
Rosalie is the daughter of a traveling theater master and is envied by many young girls as she appears to live a life full of glamour, glitz…
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders
Tom Swift is the young protagonist in a series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continue to the p…
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 Hoosier Schoolmaster
The Hoosier Schoolmaster by Edward Eggleston is a humorous and insightful exploration of rural life in 19th-century Indiana. The story follo…
Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School
In "Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School"; Or, "Fast Friends in the Sororities," the girl chums will appear as mem…
Aunt Jane's Nieces In Society
Written under pseudonym of Edith Van Dyne. The story continues the adventures of three cousins, Louise, Patsy and Beth,with their debuts in …
The Girls of Friendly Terrace
Peggy Raymond and her friends, Amy, Priscilla and Ruth, encounter a new neighbour, Elaine, and her family. While Peggy, in her usual cheerfu…
Alive
For fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising comes a gripping sci-fi adventure in which a group of teenagers wake up in a mysteri…
Anything Once
An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some ap…
Stalky & Co.
Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town,…
Anne of the Island
This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. In it Anne attends Redmond College where…
Veronica
Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having lost her own mother, is “adopted” by a neighbour, Gertr…
The Call of the Wild
In this novel (often mistakenly classified a children’s book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a…
The Champion
Seven centuries in the future, the sport of American football has never been bigger, never been faster, never been more lethal. Trillions of…
Elsie's Womanhood
Elsie's Womanhood marks a pivotal chapter in the life of Elsie Dinsmore as she transitions from girlhood to young adulthood. Set against the…