Historical

Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)

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James Baldwin


Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy,…

Saint George for England

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G. A. Henty


A tale written for children in 1885. It tells of a child of noble birth whose parents have fallen foul of the current royalty. He is placed …

Indian Child Life

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Charles Alexander Eastman


The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (th…

By Pike and Dyke

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G. A. Henty


It is the 1570's, and the people of the Netherlands live in terror under the cruel dominion of Spain. Though many long to be free of Spanish…

Outlaws of Ravenhurst

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Sister M. Imelda Wallace


This exciting historical adventure depicts the last stand of the Gordons - God's "outlaws" - fighting for their Catholic Faith in …

Sir Gibbie

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George MacDonald


These are the adventures of Sir Gibbie through the Scotland moors. Not being able to read or speak, Gibbie survives on the streets without a…

Puck of Pook's Hill

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Rudyard Kipling


Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different period…

Unknown to History

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Charlotte Mary Yonge


During the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, plots, conspiracies, and intrigue engulfed the country. Catholics were apprehensive of Protest…

The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow

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Allen French


Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neig…

Child Life in Colonial Days

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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

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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: 1720-1786

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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…

True Stories of Wonderful Deeds

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Anonymous


37 short pieces perfect for newer recorders. These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them a…

A Group of Noble Dames

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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…

Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem

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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 …

Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities

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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…

Under the Lilacs (version 3, dramatic reading)

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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 …

A Candle For Our Lady

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Regina Victoria Hunt


Dark times for British Catholics hung over England in the days of King Henry VIII. Henry, influenced by the hated Thomas Cromwell, fell into…

The Black-Bearded Barbarian

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Mary Esther Miller Macgregor


A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. (Summary by Edmund Bloxam…

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