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A little princess
A wealthy schoolgirl is reduced to poverty after her father’s death, but she preserves imagination, kindness, and dignity while enduring harsh treatment at school
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Discover fantasy and children’s reading, including imaginative settings, unusual adventures, and stories for younger readers. This collection currently contains 49 titles in Literra’s catalogue.
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A modest proposal
Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal begins in the voice of a calm, reasonable economic reformer discussing poverty in eighteenth-century Ireland. The narrator observes starving families and proposes a solution with horrifying precision: poor Irish families should sell their infants as food to
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A narrative of the siege of delhi
Charles John Griffiths's narrative describes the Siege of Delhi during the uprising of 1857 from the perspective of a British participant, recording the confusion, violence, military pressure, and daily uncertainty surrounding the struggle for control of the city. Delhi became one of the
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A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
Hawthorne retells Greek myths in a voice shaped for younger readers, making ancient stories easier to enter without stripping away their strange moral tensions
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Abducted to oz
Abducted to Oz sends its characters into the imaginative world descended from L. Frank Baum's Oz stories, where ordinary reality gives way to strange creatures, magical landscapes, and the possibility that courage can matter more than familiarity
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Anne of Green Gables
Anne’s imagination and resilience drive a coming-of-age story about belonging, school, friendship, mistakes and the making of a home
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Aunt jane's nieces and uncle john
Aunt Jane’s Nieces and Uncle John follows the three young cousins introduced in the earlier Aunt Jane’s Nieces books as they enter a new stage of family and social life under the guidance of their wealthy Uncle John. The series uses family relationships, travel, inheritance, education, and
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Aunt jane's nieces at millville
Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville takes the three cousins away from the comfortable world of wealthy family life and into a setting where community, work, social differences, and unexpected problems become more visible. The series is built around the idea that young people learn character by
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Aunt jane's nieces in society
Aunt Jane’s Nieces in Society sends the three young cousins into the world of social events, reputation, fashion, and the pressures of being observed by other people. The shift matters because society creates a different kind of danger from physical adventure
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Black Beauty
Told from a horse’s perspective, the novel uses work and treatment of animals to explore kindness, cruelty, class and responsibility
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Children of the frost
Children of the Frost is a collection of stories set in the harsh world of the Yukon and Alaska, where Indigenous cultures, settlers, prospectors, traders, and natural forces collide. Jack London uses the northern landscape to explore survival, cultural conflict, violence, loyalty, love, and
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Children's classics in dramatic form, a reader for the fourth grade
Children’s Classics in Dramatic Form converts familiar stories into short plays that young students can read aloud or perform together. Augusta Stevenson’s method is educationally simple but powerful: a story becomes easier to understand when children have to speak its characters, follow its
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Children's rights
Children’s Rights is a reform-minded work by Kate Douglas Wiggin arguing that children deserve to be treated as human beings with needs, dignity, and developmental differences rather than as miniature adults or objects of adult convenience. Wiggin was deeply involved in education, and her
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Doctor Dolittle in the Moon
Doctor Dolittle and his animal companions undertake a fantastical journey toward the Moon, encountering imaginative scientific and comic adventures
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Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
Doctor Dolittle establishes an unusual postal service using animals and travels through comic adventures that combine exploration, communication, and animal-centered imagination
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Dorothy is reunited with the Wizard after an earthquake and journeys through subterranean wonders before reaching another magical part of Oz
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Fairy gold
Fairy Gold is a collection of fairy tales and folklore shaped around traditional stories in which supernatural beings, transformations, impossible bargains, and moral reversals enter the ordinary world. Ernest Rhys presents fairy literature as more than children’s entertainment
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Fairy Tales
A selection of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales combining transformation, wonder, moral conflict, loss, humor, and bittersweet endings
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Five Children and It
Five children discover a magical creature that grants wishes, but each wish creates comic complications and teaches them about consequences and responsibility
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Glinda of Oz
Dorothy and her friends travel across Oz to help Princess Ozma and others, encountering magical obstacles, strange lands, and the formidable witch Glinda
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
A collection of traditional European fairy tales featuring enchanted forests, transformation, danger, cleverness, cruelty, morality, and wonder
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Harding's Luck
Edith Nesbit combines family adventure and fantasy as a boy becomes caught up in hidden histories, difficult circumstances, and opportunities for transformation
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Little Women
Four sisters grow into adulthood while the novel uses domestic life to explore work, creativity, family loyalty, gender expectations and moral development
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Melisande
A fantastical children’s story built around enchantment, family life, impossible transformations, and the comic consequences of magic
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More Celtic Fairy Tales
Joseph Jacobs collects Celtic folktales featuring magic, quests, supernatural beings, clever heroes, and traditional moral reversals
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Outlines of lessons in botany, part i; from seed to leaf
Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I is designed to teach children about plants by making observation the starting point of science. Instead of asking young students to memorize a long list of botanical terms, the lessons begin with what can actually be seen: a seed, a root, a stem, a leaf, a
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Peter and Wendy
Barrie’s Neverland story mixes adventure and play with a more complicated treatment of memory, growing up and the desire to remain outside ordinary time
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
A young Peter Pan lives in the magical world of Kensington Gardens, where fairies, lost children, and fantastical adventures reshape the familiar park
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Pierre Nozière
Pierre Nozière is one of Anatole France’s more unusual works because it occupies the space between memoir, literary recollection, essay, and imaginative storytelling. The title figure becomes a vehicle through which France can revisit childhood, books, schooldays, Parisian life, religion
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Pollyanna
An optimistic orphan transforms the people around her through the “glad game,” while the story explores kindness, hardship, family, and the power of attitude
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Self-help
Self-Help by W. W
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The Adventures Of Pinocchio
A wooden puppet repeatedly gets into trouble through curiosity, lying, disobedience, and impulsiveness while learning about responsibility, honesty, and becoming human
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The american child
The American Child is a study of childhood that brings together observations about children’s development, education, health, behavior, and environment. Rather than treating children simply as smaller adults, the book reflects an emerging interest in childhood as a distinct stage of human
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The Book of Dragons
E. Nesbit’s playful dragon stories use children, magic and comic reversals to show how fantasy can be clever without becoming solemn
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The Book of Wonder
Lord Dunsany presents short fantasy tales filled with imaginary lands, strange gods, dreamlike journeys, impossible cities, and a sense of wonder
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The child under eight
The Child Under Eight is an early twentieth-century guide to understanding and educating young children during the formative years before formal schooling begins. Its central concern is practical: what does a child actually need from adults during the period when language, habits, movement
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The Coral Island
Three boys stranded on a tropical island try to survive, build a new life, and protect one another while facing pirates, natural dangers, and moral choices
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The Dog Crusoe and his Master
A boy and his dog face wilderness adventure and survival challenges in a story emphasizing loyalty, resourcefulness, danger, and exploration
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The forest monster of oz
The Forest Monster of Oz is a children’s fantasy adventure built in the imaginative tradition of the Oz stories, where ordinary expectations are constantly overturned by talking creatures, strange landscapes, magical dangers, and characters who must solve problems through courage and friendship
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The Gods of Pegana
Dunsany creates an invented mythology of gods, worlds, fate, and cosmic forces through short, highly imaginative stories written like ancient legends
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The little house in the fairy wood
The Little House in the Fairy Wood is a children’s fantasy about discovering that an apparently ordinary corner of nature may contain an entire hidden world. The fairy wood becomes a place where imagination and reality overlap, and the characters encounter creatures, adventures, and moral
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The Marvelous Land of Oz
A new adventure in Oz follows a young boy, Princess Ozma, the Scarecrow, and other companions through transformation, identity, and magical kingdoms
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The maternal management of children, in health and disease
The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease is an early medical guide aimed at parents, especially mothers, explaining how children should be cared for during ordinary health and common illness. The book reflects a period when childhood medicine was becoming more systematic but
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The Secret Garden
A neglected garden becomes the center of a story about friendship, attention, change and the emotional effects of environment
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Doctor John Dolittle learns to speak with animals, abandons ordinary medical practice, and begins a series of humorous adventures devoted to helping creatures
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The Wind in the Willows
A pastoral adventure in which friendship, home, impulsiveness and the pleasures of ordinary places matter as much as the plot’s excursions
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 Books for Children
This volume gathers Charles and Mary Lamb’s writing for children, including their famous attempt to retell Shakespeare in a form accessible to young readers. The basic problem is fascinating: Shakespeare’s plays are filled with complex language, adult relationships, political conflicts
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The young mother
The Young Mother is a domestic and instructional work focused on the experiences and responsibilities surrounding early motherhood. Lucy Lyttleton Cameron writes within a tradition in which books about family life attempted to combine practical advice with moral guidance, presenting the care of
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Milne creates a small, coherent imaginative world where friendship, language, play and gentle comedy carry the books more than external stakes do
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