Family & Relationships
Grandmother Elsie
Change has come to Elsie's family in the 8th book of this delightful series. Her daughter, Violet, marries a naval Captain with three childr…
The Story Girl
Carlisle on St. Edwards Island may appear to the outside world to be a quiet, rural farming town, but to a group of 8 teens and tweens, its …
Aunt Jane's Hero
Aunt Jane's Hero tells the story of Aunt Jane, a selfless and nurturing woman whose wisdom and kindness touch the lives of those around her.…
Little Miss Grasshopper
The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole fa…
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
This is the second of Trollope's four Irish novels: A complicated, funny and touching story about family, neighbors and tenants, debt, jeal…
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…
Emily Climbs
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 …
Seven Little Australians
This is the story of seven incorrigible children living near Sydney in the 1880’s with their military-man father, and a stepmother who is sc…
The Rose Garden Husband
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…
The Christmas Hirelings
It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pa…
Elsie's New Relations
In this ninth book in the classic Elsie Dinsmore series, the family finishes their summer at the seaside and returns to Ion. The narrative t…
Neighbors
The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conc…
Understood Betsy
Sickly and sheltered, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified to hear she must be sent away to live with the "Putney cousins." Ac…
The Jumping-Off Place
Set in 1910, "The Jumping-Off Place" is the story of four orphaned children who leave their home in Wisconsin to "prove up&qu…
Peter and Wendy
Peter and Wendy tells the classic story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland wi…
Rilla of Ingleside
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…
William
The world’s most confident, most chaos-creating eleven year old boy is at it again in these fourteen glorious and funny 1924 short stories. …
Christie's Old Organ
Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an…
Wives and Daughters
Molly and her father have lived alone since the death of her mother. Now Mr Gibson decides it will be in Molly's best interests for him to m…
Leave it to Doris
The Reverend Mr. Artman is a widower of three years and is worried he might not be able to escape the clutches of Miss Carlton, his housekee…