Young Adult Literature
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
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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…
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 …
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…
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…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 015
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 015: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Mari, Our Little Norwegian Cousin
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Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
"Long before Columbus discovered America, there were brave men in the north of Europe who dared to sail farther out upon the unknown wa…
The Purging Of Ruen
Read by Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield
When assigned to determine the cause of brewing tensions in the exclusive seaside city of Ruen, Oscar Teabag-Dooven discovers it’s on the br…
Little Eve Edgarton
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Eve Edgarton is not who she seems she is. A short encounter with Mr. Barton show that first impressions are not always right or indicative o…
Pee-Wee Harris
Read by Tom Weiss
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Percy Keese Fitzhugh was an American author of nearly 100 books for children and young adults. The bulk of his work revolves around the fict…
Squinty the Comical Pig
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Richard Barnum
"This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig written by an unknown author. The publisher has hired authors t…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 014
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Various
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 014: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School; or, Fast Friends in the Sororities
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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…
The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
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Annie Fellows Johnston
Because of the illness of her grandfather, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being sent off to boarding school from her home …