Family & Relationships
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Read by Son of the Exiles
Steele Rudd
The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wild…
Little Meg's Children
Read by fiddlesticks
Hesba Stretton
This is the touching and endearing story of Little Meg and her trials and difficulties as she does her best to look after 'her children' aft…
Brother Jacob
Read by Lynne T
George Eliot
Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered and ambitious Davi…
The Girls of Gardenville
Read by Betsie Bush
Carroll Watson Rankin
It is pleasant to have another book about a group of merry, natural girls, who have the attractions of innocence and youthful faults. "…
Neighbors
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conc…
Emily Climbs
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Emily Byrd Starr longs to attend Queen's Academy to earn her teaching license, but her tradition-bound relatives at New Moon refuse. She is …
Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl
Read by Jennifer Fournier
Unknown
Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm…
The Wishing Horse of Oz
Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Ruth Plumly Thompson
Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to bec…
A Son of the Middle Border
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Hamlin Garland
In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank …
Der Trotzkopf
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Emmy Von Rhoden
Die 15-jährige Ilse Macket lebt auf dem Gut Moosdorf in Pommern und wächst nach dem Tod der Mutter wild und ohne jede Erziehung au…
Eight Cousins (Version 3)
Read by Marina
Louisa May Alcott
Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and…
Five Minute Stories
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Laura E. Richards and Laura E. Howe Richards
Another collection of poems and short stories by Laura Richards. Yes, these are all short and mostly all delightfully innocent and sweet. So…
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Annie Fellows Johnston
In this delightful story ”The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation” by Annie Fellows Johnston the Little Colonel, Lloyd Sherman. together wit…
The Pennycomequicks
Read by Michael Reuss
Sabine Baring-Gould
The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scar…
From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse
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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fifth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for lit…
Jeremy
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
With affectionate humor, Mr. Walpole tells the story of Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen and Mary Cole, who grow up in Polchester, a quiet …
Emily's Quest
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
This is the third and final book in the "Emily of New Moon" trilogy.This is the story of Emily Starr's uneven climb from success i…
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill
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Alice B. Emerson
Brave, adventurous and loyal, recently-orphaned Ruth Fielding is sent to live with her estranged Uncle Jabez at the Red Mill in Cheslow, New…
What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading)
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Susan Coolidge
Katy Carr always gets in trouble for everything. When her mother died, she told Katy to be a mother to the little ones. But it seems like Ka…
The Dutch Twins
Read by Bianca Kramer
Lucy Fitch Perkins
This book is the first of a series of stories for supplementary reading the purpose of which is to give children a correct idea of life in d…