Best Free Classic Children And Young Adult Books

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Anne of Green Gables

• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
• Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
• Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
• Anne’s House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
• Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery
• Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery
• Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
• Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books

• The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
• The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Bobbsey Twins

• The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins at Home by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins at School by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins in Washington by Laura Lee Hope
• The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope

Doctor Doolittle

• The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

E. Nesbit

• The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
• Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
• The Magic City by E. Nesbit
• The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
• The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit
• The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit
• Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare
• The Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit
• In Homespun by E. Nesbit
• The Rainbow and the Rose by E. Nesbit

Every Child Should Know

• Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Famous Stories Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know by Asa Don Dickinson
• Heroes Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Myths That Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Blanche Ostertag
• Pictures Every Child Should Know by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
• Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know by Smith and Wiggin

Other Books & Collections by Andrew Lang

• The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang
• The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer
• Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang
• Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table, Adapted from the Book of Romance by Andrew Lang
• The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: Real Life by various authors
• The Animal Story Book by Andrew Lang and H. J. Ford
• The Story of Joan of Arc by Andrew Lang
• The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang
• The True Story Book by Andrew Lang
• The Book of Princes and Princesses by Mrs. Lang

Tom Swift

• Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle; Or, Fun and Adventures on the Road by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; Or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Airship by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout; Or, The Speediest Car on the Road by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Air Scout; Or, Uncle Sam’s Mastery of the Sky by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Sky Racer; Or, The Quickest Flight on Record by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift in Captivity, Or, A Daring Escape By Airship by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers; Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat; Or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship; Or, The Naval Terror of the Seasby Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and his Wizard Camera or, Thrilling Adventures while taking Moving Pictures by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat; Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His War Tank; Or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters; Or, Battling with Flames from the Air by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Air Glider; Or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon; Or, The Longest Shots on Recordby Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Undersea Search; Or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice, or, the Wreck of the Airship by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift in the City of Gold; Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground by Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Wireless Message; Or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island by Victor Appleton

Five Little Peppers

• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
• Five Little Peppers Midway by Margaret Sidney
• Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney
• The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney
• The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Margaret Sidney
• Five Little Peppers at School by Margaret Sidney
• Five Little Peppers Abroad by Margaret Sidney
• Five Little Peppers and their Friends by Margaret Sidney
• Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney

J.M. Barrie

• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
• Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie

L. Frank Baum

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum
• The Flying Girl by L. Frank Baum
• The Woggle-Bug Book by L. Frank Baum
• Annabel: A Novel for Young Folks by L. Frank Baum
• The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
• American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum
• The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum
• The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank Baum
• Twinkle and Chubbins: Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland by L. Frank Baum
• Phoebe Daring: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank Baum
• Aunt Jane’s Nieces in the Red Cross by L. Frank Baum
• Aunt Jane’s Nieces on Vacation by L. Frank Baum
• Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad by L. Frank Baum
• Aunt Jane’s Nieces in Society by L. Frank Baum
• Aunt Jane’s Nieces and Uncle John by L. Frank Baum
• Aunt Jane’s Nieces by L. Frank Baum

Louisa May Alcott

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott
• Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott
• An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
• A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott
• The Mysterious Key and What It Opened by Louisa May Alcott
• Kitty’s Class Day and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott
• A Garland for Girls by Louisa May Alcott
• Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
• Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
• Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott
• Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
• The Abbot’s Ghost, or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation: A Christmas Story by Louisa May Alcott
• Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, Volume 1 by Louisa May Alcott
• Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, Volume 2 by Louisa May Alcott
• Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag, Volume 3 by Louisa May Alcott
• Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag, Volume 4 by Louisa May Alcott
• Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, Volume 5 by Louisa May Alcott
• Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, Volume 6 by Louisa May Alcott

Thornton W. Burgess

• The Adventures of Grandfather Frog by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Johnny Chuck by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Mr. Mocker by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Paddy Beaver by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Reddy Fox by Thornton W. Burgess
• The Adventures of Unc’ Billy Possum by Thornton W. Burgess
• Blacky the Crow by Thornton W. Burgess
• Bowser the Hound by Thornton W. Burgess
• Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess
• Lightfoot the Deer by Thornton W. Burgess
• Mother West Wind’s Children by Thornton W. Burgess
• Mother West Wind “Where” Stories by Thornton W. Burgess
• Mother West Wind ‘Why’ Stories by Thornton W. Burgess
• Mrs. Peter Rabbit by Thornton W. Burgess
• Old Granny Fox by Thornton W. Burgess
• Old Mother West Wind by Thornton W. Burgess
• Whitefoot the Wood Mouse by Thornton W. Burgess

Susan Coolidge

• What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
• What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge
• What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge
• Nine Little Goslings by Susan Coolidge

McGuffey Readers

• McGuffey’s First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition by William Holmes McGuffey
• McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
• McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
• McGuffey’s Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
• McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
• McGuffey’s Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

Poetry

• A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Poems Teachers Ask For by various authors
• Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by various authors
• The Children’s Own Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Poems Every Child Should Know by Mary E. Burt
• The Nursery Rhyme Book by Andrew Lang and L. Leslie Brooke
• The Blue Poetry Book by Andrew Lang, H. J. Ford, and Lancelot Speed
• The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children by Kenneth Grahame

Assorted Non-Fiction

• Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People by Marmaduke Park
• Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodie by Jeanette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody
• Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories by James Baldwin
• The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known by Joseph Jacobs
• A School History of the Great War by Coulomb, Gerson, and McKinley
• True Stories of History and Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life by Francis Parkman
• Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters by Logan Marshall
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

How-To Books

• A Little Book for A Little Cook by L. P. Hubbard
• The Mary Frances Cook Book; Or, Adventures Among the Kitchen People by Jane Eayre Fryer
• The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book by Jane Eayre Fryer
• The Mary Frances First Aid Book by Jane Eayre Fryer
• The Mary Frances Garden Book; or, Adventures Among the Garden People by Jane Eayre Fryer
• The American Girl’s Handy Book How to Amuse Youself and Othersby Beard and Beard
• The Boy Mechanic, Book 2: 1000 Things for Boys to Do by H. H. Windsor
• The Child’s Rainy Day Book by Mary White
• Every Boy’s Book: A Complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Amusements by Routledge
• Little Folks’ Handy Book by Adelia B. Beard and Lina Beard
• On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls by Adelia B. Beard and Lina Beard

Assorted Fiction

• The Scientific American Boy; Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by A. Russell Bond
• My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
• The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children’s Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Abandoned Country; or, Frank Reade, Jr., Exploring a New Continent. by Senarens
• The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard, and Her Dog by Sarah Catherine Martin
• The Mystery Boys and Captain Kidd’s Message by Van Powell
• The Girl Scouts’ Canoe Trip by Edith Lavell
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• The Aesop for Children by Aesop
• The Box-Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
• Tales of Folk and Fairies by Katharine Pyle
• The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil
• Jack Among the Indians; Or, A Boy’s Summer on the Buffalo Plainsby Grinnell
• The Boy Inventors’ Diving Torpedo Boat by Richard Bonner
• The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot by Arthur Scott Bailey
• The Curlytops and Their Pets; Or, Uncle Toby’s Strange Collectionby Garis
• The Mercer Boys’ Mystery Case by Capwell Wyckoff
• The Brighton Boys in the Submarine Treasure Ship by James R. Driscoll