LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 8)

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

Stories from the History of Rome

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Emily Beesly

Mrs. Emily Beesly, the writer of this brilliant narrative, lived in an era of nothing but fairy tales and "the stories of nursery life&…

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…

Joel, a Boy of Galilee

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Annie Fellows Johnston

Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and t…

A Little Maid of Province Town

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Alice Turner Curtis

Plucky eight year old Anne Nelson, living in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, is determined to bring the Revolutionary War to an end so …

The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh

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Margaret Duncan Kelly

"Relates the story of Raleigh from his boyhood days on the coast of Devonshire, to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry int…

History Plays for the Grammar Grades

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Mary Ella Lyng

A charming collection of 14 short American history plays for the very young - ranging from Christopher Columbus to George Washington to Susa…

Young Robin Hood

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George Manville Fenn

Ever wonder how Robin Hood became Robin Hood? Well, now you can read how a young boy was molded into the famous hero who "robbed from t…

Elsie's New Relations

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Martha Finley

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…

The Strange Story Book (version 2)

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Leonora Blanche Lang

This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang "Color" Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stori…

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