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Chapter XI Part 1

In Old Friends And New Fancies

Read by Tammy Porter


Sybil G. Brinton


Generally acknowledged to be the first sequel to the work of Jane Austen, Old Friends and New Fancies incorporates characters from each of A…

Life at the Mines

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fie…

Read by Tammy Porter


Agnes C. Laut


Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first di…

Pollyanna

Read by Eleanor H. Porter


Eleanor H. Porter


In a small town far out West, 11 year old Pollyanna loses her mother then her dad to disease. This book describes how the orphan is sent to …

08 - How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon

In Historic Adventures: Tales from American History

Read by Tammy Stalcup


Rupert S. Holland


This is a collection of early American stories, interesting read. (Summary by sidhu177)

09 - The Little Glutton

In Slovenly Betsy

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Heinrich Hoffmann


Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collecti…

Hyperbola or Parabola (p. 188)

In Round the Moon

Read by Tammy Sanders


Jules Verne


Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left t…

Peppino

In The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas


The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

22 - Almost Homesick

In The Tale of Henrietta Hen

Read by Tammy Stalcup


Arthur Scott Bailey


The Tale of Henrietta Hen is a cute children's book filled with the adventures of a hen named Henrietta. (Summary by SarahParshall)

07 - Part 2, Chapter 1 - Of Deportment in the Street

In The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

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Elisabeth Celnart and Élisabeth Celnart


A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

A Clever Catch By Lloyd F. Loux

In Short Stories From Life

Read by Tammy Leon


Various


Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…

UNC' BILLY AND OLD MRS. POSSUM -- The Virginia Opossum, which is the only Ameri…

In The Burgess Animal Book for Children

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Thornton W. Burgess


Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals…

The Three Little Ragamuffins

In Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise

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Lucy Lane Clifford and Lucy Clifford


A collection of stories and poems for children by British novelist, journalist, and playwright Lucy Lane Clifford, better known during her l…

Ruth Powlett Confesses

In The Curse of Carne's Hold

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G. A. Henty


When Ronald Mervyn from Devonshire is falsely accused of murder he emigrates to South Africa. He takes part in the Kaffir war and during thi…

Margaret's Letter

In Henry Dunbar

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committ…

THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales (version 2)

Read by Tammy Leon


William Patten


Oh boy! Fairy Tales and Wonder Tales. This is exactly what you are thinking about but with a twist. Of course the well known tales from F…

04 - A Glimpse of Jupiter

In Life in a Thousand Worlds

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William Shuler Harris


A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver’s Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer o…

13 - Off for the Treasure

In Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat

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Victor Appleton


Otherwise known as 'Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure', is Volume 4 in the original Tom Swift novel series. Tom persuades his father to us…