Family & Relationships

The Adopting of Rosa Marie

by Carroll Watson Rankin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this charming girl's book we meet again the four chums of Dandelion Cottage. Their friendship knit closer than ever by their summer at pl…

The Able McLaughlins

by Margaret Wilson Read by Warren Kati 3.9
The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924 in Margaret Wilson's debut work. Aptly described as "Little House on th…

Little Sunbeam

by Eleanora H. Stooke Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Peggy, age eight, blind from birth, is the Little Sunbeam in her family. Following a serious accident in London, she is sent to spend time …

The Mother and the Child

by Maria Montessori Read by Edith van der Have-Raats 4.4
In this insightful lecture from 1915, renowned educational reformer Maria Montessori explores the profound relationship between mothers and …

To The Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf 3.8
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

Percy Wynn, or Making a Boy of Him

by Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
In this volume, which follows the author's popular book "Tom Playfair", a new boy is just arriving at St. Maure's boarding school.…

Paul and the Printing Press

by Sara Ware Bassett Read by Brian Keenan 4.8
Paul Cameron, president of the class of 1920 in the Burmingham High School, conceives the idea of establishing a school paper, to the honor …

Mary Ware's Promised Land

by Annie Fellows Johnston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In this latest and most delightful book Mary's desire to visit "The Locusts," the old home of the "Little Colonel," is g…

Phoebe, Junior

by Margaret O. Oliphant Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Social status and snobbery dominated Victorian English society, but religion and politics were interfering with the status quo as Phoebe Bee…

Virginia

by Ellen Glasgow Read by Jim Locke 4.5
Virginia does everything right: she attends a finishing school, marries the first man who proposes, and devotes her life to her husband and …

Fairy Prince and Other Stories

by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Read by Nan Dodge 4.8
A charming family story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl. “You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christ…

Cradock Nowell

by Richard Doddridge Blackmore Read by Lynne T 4.8
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …

The Little Colonel

by Annie Fellows Johnston Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016) 4.6
The Little Kentucky "Colonel," so much of a favorite with young readers, has reached the age for interest in other people's love a…

The Freelands

by John Galsworthy Read by Simon Evers 4.2
The Freelands family is a mixture: Tod Freeland is an uncommunicative gentle giant, his wife Kirsteen passionate and free-spoken, Felix is a…

Mildred's New Daughter

by Martha Finley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Mildred's New Daughter is one of the children's Christian novels in a series by Martha Finley that follows the lives of four orphaned Eldon …

Bulbs and Blossoms

by Amy Le Feuvre Read by Emily Isabella 4.3
Two young children, recently arrived back in England from India, discover their aunt's old gardener, and together they explore the beautiful…

Raising Children Who Hope in the Triumph of God

by John Piper and David Michael 4.5
"The most important school a child should ever attend is the home. The most influential theological teachers he should ever have are Mo…

Clear Heart

by Joe Cottonwood Read by Joe Cottonwood 4.6
Carpenters and craft, friendship and rivalry: Wally is building a mansion for a dot-com multimillionaire in the Silicon Valley of Californi…

The Little Colonel's Holidays

by Annie Fellows Johnston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
"What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?" they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking &quo…

Mary Louise

by L. Frank Baum Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Mary Louise is a girl who lives with her mother and grandfather. Ever since she was small, every little while they have had to pack up and m…

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