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My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...
Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Along time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babi...
The Federalist, or, The New Constitution
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...
Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of log...
The Night Before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to...
Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
In 1864 Caddie Woodlawn was eleven, and as wild a little tomboy as ever ran the woods of western Wisconsin.
On the Banks of Plum Creek
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.
Platero y yo
by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Platero is so little, so hairy, smooth, and so soft to the touch that you might say he is made of puffy cotton, all ligh...
Hija de la fortuna
by Isabel Allende
Everyone is born with some special talent, and Eliza Sommers discovered early on that she had two: a good sense of smell...
Principles of Microeconomics (with Xtra!)
by N. Gregory Mankiw, J. Gans, S. King, N. Mankiw
Farmer Boy
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
He wore one pair of socks pulled snug over the legs of his underdrawers, and another pair outside the legs of his long b...
Before Adam
by Jack London
Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged...
The Long Winter
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
THE MOWING MACHINE'S whirring sounded cheerfully from the old buffalo wallow south of the claim shanty, where bluestem g...
By the Shores of Silver Lake
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
LAURA WAS WASHING the dishes one morning when old Jack, lying in the sunshine on the doorstep, growled to tell her that ...
Sarah, plain and tall
by Patricia MacLachlan, Patricia MacLachlan
"Did Mama sing every day?"