Young Adult Literature
Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida
Read by Stevan Simmons
Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams
"Down South" is the fifth and last volume but one of the "Great Western Series." The action of the story is confined ent…
The Will and the Way Stories
Read by Roger Melin
Jessie Benton Frémont
Simply put, this is a book of 9 short vignettes each of which describes a different scenario which demonstrates the age old adage: 'where th…
A Cathedral Courtship
Read by Ric F
Kate Douglas Wiggin
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases…
Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace)
Read by Daryl Wor
Harriet Lummis Smith
In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from…
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars)
Read by Daryl Wor
Harriet Lummis Smith
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) published in 1920, finds Peggy and her friends preparing for The Great War.…
The Courage of the Commonplace
Read by Roger Melin
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The short story of a young man who came to terms with himself and became a man on a day when he had proven to be a failure to his family, hi…
Betty Wales, Freshman
Read by Daryl Wor
Margaret Warde
First published in 1904, Betty Wales Freshman is the first book in an 8 volume series that follows Betty and her classmates throughout colle…
Dorothy Dale In The City
Read by Lynne T
Margaret Penrose
The series continues. Dorothy Dale and the girls of Glenwood enjoy a break from school, with adventures over the Christmas holidays. (Summar…
The World Is Badly Made
Read by Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield
When the palace of Arabesque’s aide d’camp, a cat named the Tremblees, stumbles upon a translation of an ancient language that reveals the e…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 017
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Various
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 017: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
The Getting of Wisdom
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Henry Handel Richardson
The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on H…
The Jewels of Aptor
Read by Bellona Times
Samuel R. Delaney and Samuel R. Delany
Delany's first novel, from 1962, serves as a sort of prologue to the subsequent Captives of the Flame, 1963. Set several centuries after the…
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service
Read by Tom Clifton
James R. Driscoll
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service is a boys adventure story set in WWI - Three College Chums join the military and face the perils of s…
Grizelda
Read by Margaret R. Taylor
Margaret R. Taylor
In the Republic of Corvain, anybody who has a hint of magical power is rounded up and thrown into prison. They’re doing it to defend the ne…
Barbara in Brittany
Read by Sibella Denton
E. A. Gillie
Barbara, an English girl and the eldest of her family, spends most days helping her widowed mother care for her younger siblings. Then disas…
A Life of Death
Read by Weston Kincade
Weston Kincade
A paranormal coming-of-age mystery about one boy's pain and hardship endured in a small Virginia town. Losing a father and growing up with …
The Fairies and the Christmas Child
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Lilian Gask
The worst of being a Christmas Child is that you don’t get birthday presents, but only Christmas ones. Old Naylor, who was Father’s coachman…
The Alchemists Of Vra
Read by Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield
Consider a world inhabited with only cats and dogs: a society recognizable as our own, but with its eccentricities being the norm, rather th…
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Read by Bridget Gaige
Edward Eggleston
"Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv of…
The Fortunate Youth
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William John Locke
Paul is a poor boy who grew up in London, in the household of his mother and stepfather. His journey to greatness is the subject of our stor…