Young Adult Literature
Short Stories for Colored People
Several short stories relating to young African Americans. Summary by kirk202
Sophia
At age 7, Sophia was struck down with a life-threatening disease. Faced with a choice between an unending life in the body of a child and he…
Dorothy Dale In The City
In this charming continuation of the Dorothy Dale series, young Dorothy and her friends from Glenwood School embark on a series of adventure…
The Garden God
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys is Forrest Reid’s tender, bracingly tragic reflection on adolescence, pantheism, Platonism, and homoeroti…
Rose Cottingham
Rose Cottingham, orphaned at an early age, is being raised in the repressive household of her grandmother, who has old-fashioned ideas about…
Maybe--Tomorrow
Maybe--tomorrow, by Jay Little (pseudonym for Clarence Lewis Miller) published in 1952* based in the confusing latter part of his teenage …
Up the River
Up the River is the sixth and last of "The Great Western Series." The events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gu…
Historical Tales
Volume III of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This third volume covers …
Bill Biddon, Trapper
Our young hero and his companion plan to make their fortunes in the California gold rush. Having made their way to Missouri, they join a wag…
Paula the Waldensian
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…
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the s…
Pure Grit
Eric Gordon, though a store clerk and postal worker in a small coastal town in New York, has plenty of optomisim about his abilities in any …
Dragons' Truth
When two young boys decide to skip school and seek adventure one day, they end up finding much more than they ever bargained for. More than …
Untrue Tales...
An Introduction To Dodgeball or Conception and Induction or How To Begin An Apocalypse
Contains mature content not suitable for all readers.…
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…
The Little Colonel's House Party
Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her…
Noggle Stones
Shunned by his people and tormented by nightmare visions, Bugbear, the mad goblin scholar, ventures into the wilderness with his ne'er-do-we…
Eddie of Jackson's Gang
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,…
Marjorie Dean, High School Junior
In her Junior year at high school, Marjorie faces a new foe. Rowena Farnham is clever and calculating and her antics threaten Sanford High's…
Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo’s
The "Six Little Bunkers" are 6 brothers and sisters. In this volume, they go to visit their Aunt Jo in Boston and have adventures!…