Young Adult Literature
Short Stories for Colored People
Several short stories relating to young African Americans. Summary by kirk202
The House of Grey
14-year-old Monson Grey faces the same challenges that any freshman high school kid would. Difficult classes, weird teachers, food fights…gi…
Sara Crewe
Sara Crewe tells the poignant story of a young girl whose life takes a dramatic turn. At Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, Sa…
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…
Tik-Tok of Oz
In L. Frank Baum's enchanting tale, Tik-Tok of Oz, young Betsy Bobbin embarks on a whimsical journey through the magical land of Oz. Accompa…
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…
The Princess of the School
An exiting story about school life. The story revolves around the lives of schoolgirls at Chilcombe Hall, showcasing their friendships, adve…
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 …
Miss Grantley's Girls
The author Thomas Archer lived 1830 – 1893; he wrote several juvenile stories, and this book: Miss Grantley’s Girls – And the Stories She To…
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 …
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 Brighton Boys in the Radio Service
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…
Earthbound
“I didn’t believe in ghosts, not until I became one.”
Schuyler Ramsey just wants to be like the other kids in school. Too bad she’s dead. Sh…
A Lucky Penny
Tom Garland is a young man in Boston who is sent to learn a trade at an Industrial Farm near the bay. There he meets another young man who's…
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…
Little Women
Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion con…
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…
The Princess and the Ploughman
On the surface, Mary is the typical literary heroine: Beautiful, animated, and accomplished. She will be rich, too, when she inherits her au…
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…
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…