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Books for Young Readers
For young readers and those just setting out.
The Westminster Shorter Catechism for Kids
Westminster Assembly · 1647 AD — the Shorter Catechism's 107 questions rewritten for children to understand.
The Gentleman's Calling
Richard Allestree · 1660 AD — education, wealth, time, authority, and reputation treated as talents held in trust.
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss · 1812 AD — a shipwrecked family builds a new home on an unknown island, in all 58 chapters.
Letters to a Daughter
William Sprague · 1850 AD — Sprague's letters of fatherly counsel to his motherless daughter.
The Little Duke
Charlotte M. Yonge · 1854 AD — the boy duke Richard the Fearless bound to forgive his father's killer.
Parables from Nature
Margaret Gatty · 1855 AD — Victorian allegories in which a caterpillar, a bee, and a dragonfly grub learn faith.
Viking Tales
Jennie Hall · 1902 AD — fifteen retold Norse sagas following Harald's rise and the voyages west.
Stories of Thrift for Young Americans
Myron T. Pritchard and Grace A. Turkington · 1915 AD — twenty-one school stories teaching the care of health, time, money, and home.
Great Inventors and Their Inventions
Frank P. Bachman · 1918 AD — twelve stories of great inventions told through the lives of Watt, Fulton, Whitney, Morse, and Bell.
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