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The Carter Girls of Carter House – ebook
Emma Speed Sampson
Written for young girls, this is book №4 in „The Carter Girls Series” by Emma Speed Sampson. Sampson, using the name of her sister Nell Speed, wrote 4 titles in the Molly Brown series after her sister’s death in 1913. She also wrote several volumes including the Carter Girls series and the Tucker Twins before she began publishing works under her own name. „The Carter Girls of Carter House” is a good,...Data dostępności:
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The Master of the Shell – ebook
Talbot Baines Reed
In this novel, for a change, the protagonist is a master, not students. We see events from the point of view of some boys, but it is new that readers are asked to look at things from the point of view of the teacher. Mark Ralesford is a young gentleman who has just become engaged. He is also ready to start work after graduation and travel around the world. He is accepted as a teacher and home master...Data dostępności:
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Jerry Todd’s Poodle Parlor – ebook
Leo Edwards
This story begins with a summer vacation in the small town of Tutter, Illinois, where the protagonist was born and raised. These are the adventures of the boys during their summer holidays. Many events revolve around the Woodlawn Bay Hotel and the old Windmere House, which stood side by side on the south bank of the river, each with about fifty acres of forested land around it. It was a new hotel,...Data dostępności:
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Just So Stories – ebook
Rudyard Kipling
“Just So Stories” are usually devoted to how a particular animal changed its initial appearance as a result of the actions of a person or a fairy creature. For example, Keith cannot swallow a person because he once swallowed a Sailor, who secured a wooden lattice inside, which prevents him from swallowing other people. The camel acquired a hump as a punishment from Gene, Lord of All Deserts, for refusing...Data dostępności:
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Rose in Bloom – ebook
Louisa May Alcott
Opening several years after the close of „Eight Cousins”, we find Rose coming home fresh from a voyage overseas, to find much changed about her. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them. But before she marries anyone, Rose is determined to establish herself as an independent young woman. Besides, she suspects that some of her friends like her more her money than...Data dostępności:
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Dominie Dean – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
Humorous novel set in Riverbank, a fictionalized Muscatine, in a Mississippi River town. Pastor David Dean and his wife take up residence in this town, Iowa in the 1850s and learn how unaccepting a small town can be of new residents, even after a stay of decades. An interesting social history of mid nineteenth century life, emphasizing the dominance of crass commercial interests in the vicissitudes...Data dostępności:
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Anne of the Island – ebook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
„Anne of the Island” was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling „Anne of Green Gables.” This book tells the story of Anne Shirley’s and her friends’ college years. As the security of home and childhood comforts fade, each must face the trials of being on their own. The novel kicks off when Anne decides to pursue her dream of a higher education, and subsequently leaves her two year teaching...Data dostępności:
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Emily of New Moon – ebook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
„Emily of New Moon” by L.M. Montgomery, published in 1923, is the start of a trilogy of novels about Emily Byrd Starr that invites comparison with the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. The Emily novels depicted life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of tuberculosis. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious...Data dostępności:
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – ebook
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer is the story of a young, mischievous boy and his comrades in the antebellum south. Tom (and Huck Finn, who you’ve also probably heard of before reading the books) gets himself into all sorts of shenanigans before ultimately becoming the most popular boy in town after accidentally witnessing a murder and finding a bunch of stolen money. He has a love interest, gets into some fights and annoys...Data dostępności:
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Tokio Dreaming – ebook
Emiko Jean
Wyczekiwana kontynuacja Tokio Ever After! Kiedy japońsko-amerykańska nastolatka Izumi Tanaka dowiedziała się, że jej ojciec jest następcą tronu Japonii, z dnia na dzień stała się księżniczką. Ma idealnego ochroniarza, który został jej chłopakiem. Jej rodzice wrócili do siebie po latach i są zaręczeni. Na horyzoncie widać królewski ślub! Życie Izumi to spełnienie marzeń. Tylko... Zaręczyny jej...Data dostępności:
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