Historical
Child Life in Colonial Days
Read by Susan Morin
Alice Morse Earle
The accounts of old-time child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the atti…
Elsie's Widowhood
Read by Rachel
Martha Finley
The seventh in the Elsie Dinsmore series, this book begins with the death of Elsie's beloved husband. As Elsie learns to live in widowhood, …
Priest on Horseback-Father Farmer
Read by Maria Therese
Eva K. Betz
A historical novel for children, which tells the story of several months in the life of the then famous Father Farmer, as he traveled a Mass…
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
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Alice Turner Curtis
Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the Civil War. She loves h…
A Group of Noble Dames
Read by Libby Gohn
Thomas Hardy
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…
True Stories of Wonderful Deeds
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William James McGlothlin
37 short pieces perfect for newer recorders. These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them a…
Tales of Troy
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Andrew Lang
These are short stories about the life of Ulysses, the stealing of Helen, Paris, battles, Trojan horses, and more! - Summary by Maggie Trave…
Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem
Read by Patrick Saville
Florence Morse Kingsley
Tor is a young beggar living in the city of Jerusalem during the tumultuous time of the Roman occupation. Shouts of hope are the last thing …
Stories from the History of Rome
Read by Melissa Jane
Emily Beesly
Mrs. Emily Beesly, the writer of this brilliant narrative, lived in an era of nothing but fairy tales and "the stories of nursery life&…
Under the Lilacs
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Louisa May Alcott
When a raggedy boy from the circus limps into the lives of the Moss family, he is unlike any child they have ever met. With his devoted and …