Family & Relationships
The Daisy Chain
Join the endearing May family in small-town England as each member lives through some pivotal years. How will they face the changes that sha…
Pollyanna's Debt of Honor
This is the fifth Pollyanna Glad Book. Pollyanna is kept busy teaching her famous "glad game" to others and thus spreading her own…
Martha and Cupid
Both prequel and sequel to Martha by the day and Making over Martha. This book fills in details about Martha and her family that devoted rea…
The Feast of St. Friend
In The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book, Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's w…
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…
Letters to His Children
The strong, vigorous, exalted character of a doting father who loved playing with his children and their pets, even while serving as the Pre…
The Art of Conversation
Many of us find it challenging to speak to other people, for various reasons. Some of us are afraid of being called a bore. Others are worri…
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
When a neighbor brings word that Grandma is sick, Mr. and Mrs. Bassett hurry off to tend to her, leaving their seven children to prepare for…
The Bobbsey Twins at Cloverbank
Come along with The Bobbsey Twins for more adventures, as they spend a summer on a farm!This is book number 19 in the series. (Summary by Ma…
Fern's Hollow
Ferns Hollow is the sad, but sweet story of a young boy who tragically loses his parents and has to care for his two sisters and crazed gran…
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
After her famed book "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery continued her stories in "Chronicles of Avonlea" foll…
The Adopting of Rosa Marie
In this charming girl's book we meet again the four chums of Dandelion Cottage. Their friendship knit closer than ever by their summer at pl…
Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them
Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer, but he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new…
The Channings
This is a saga about life in a small town in England during the Victorian era. The "stars" of this saga are the Channings. Mr. Cha…
The Older Brother
Two brothers, one 20 years old, the other almost eighteen, and one younger sister. The older brother has had to delay his primary schooling …
That Mother-in-Law of Mine
Here we were, only a month married, and spending our honeymoon at a most charming summer resort, where there was no excuse for getting out o…
Sunshine and Snow
A harrowing and dramatic story of four siblings from Scotland who are poor and orphaned. The eldest brother, Arthur, is guardian to his two …
Little Sunbeam
Peggy, age eight, blind from birth, is the Little Sunbeam in her family. Following a serious accident in London, she is sent to spend time …
Private Sex Advice to Women
In this book the writer thereof seeks to convey to women—particularly to young wives and women expecting to be married—certain important fac…
The Little Colonel's House Party
Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her…