Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Center Rush Rowland

The speaker removed a straw hat, rather the worse for wear, and mopped a damp forehead, while a youngster with a freckled face, who was engaged in lowering an awning in front of a grocery store, paused and viewed the inquirer with a mixture of curiosity and amusement. Eventual...

Chapters

17. CHAPTER XVII

Parkinson played Musket Hill Academy the next Saturday at North Lebron and met her second defeat. As, however, Musket Hill was, with the possible exception of Kenwood, the most...

2. CHAPTER II

"Not what you'd call a very good beginning," thought Ira, ruefully, as, followed by the somewhat puzzled looks of the group in front of the gymnasium, he made his way across the...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Goodloe roomed in Number 30, Williams Hall, the dormitory nest to Parkinson on the left, and Ira wandered around for several minutes before he discovered that there were two ent...

5. CHAPTER V

It was all settled by the time they had finished breakfast. Perhaps the cheerfulness of the morning, or it may have been Mrs. Magoon's coffee, worked its effect on Nead, for tha...

22. CHAPTER XXII

Parkinson went back to line attacks, now that she was facing the wind, and soon yielded the ball. Kenwood, profiting by her adversary's example, started a kicking game. History...

10. CHAPTER X

Ira nodded slowly. "It sounds sort of silly, I guess," he replied, "but I've decided to have a try at it. I don't believe for a minute that they'll keep me more than one day, bu...

6. CHAPTER VI

Ira smiled over the message as he crumpled it up and dropped it into a waste basket. The temptation to accept Mart's invitation was strong, but he knew that he ought to at least...

14. CHAPTER XIV

High School had the advantage of a longer preliminary season than her opponent, having already taken part in six contests, and in consequence what she lacked in weight--for she...

1. CHAPTER I

The speaker removed a straw hat, rather the worse for wear, and mopped a damp forehead, while a youngster with a freckled face, who was engaged in lowering an awning in front of...

12. CHAPTER XII

Country Day School came Saturday and put up a good fight, but was defeated by the score of 7 to 3. Ira witnessed that contest from the bench and found more interest in it than i...

13. CHAPTER XIII

As it happened, an unusually large number of fellows had accompanied the team that day, and in consequence a great many disappointed and disgruntled youths returned to Warne and...

19. CHAPTER XIX

Ira had just time to get to the field before practice began. The work today was easy, consisting principally of signal drill in preparation for the game with Day and Robins's Sc...

15. CHAPTER XV

They reached the auditorium, on the second floor of Parkinson Hall, in good time but found it already half-full. A dozen rather conscious-looking fellows stood or sat about the...

7. CHAPTER VII

When Ira awoke the next morning an expression of Mart Johnston's came to him. "You've got a good day for it!" It certainly was a good day, for the early morning sky was cloudles...

9. CHAPTER IX

Several days passed without incidents worth recording here. Life at Parkinson settled down into the groove that it was to follow for the next nine months and Ira found that his...

4. CHAPTER IV

"He hasn't any right to it," declared the boy on the trunk, gripping the bag on his knees more firmly. "You gave me the refusal of it! I told you I'd be back! It's my room, and...

18. CHAPTER XVIII

Humphrey was "breaking into Society," to use his own half-contemptuous phrase. That is to say, he had made two visits with Ira, had renewed acquaintances with Fred Lyons and Gen...

3. CHAPTER III

Half an hour later Ira was the proud possessor-- Now that's what comes of using phrases. It's a poor habit. As a matter of honest fact, no one could have been really proud of th...

11. CHAPTER XI

Martin Johnston and Dwight Bradford occupied what at Parkinson was known as an alcove study. To be correct, it was not the study that formed an alcove, but the bedroom. There we...

20. CHAPTER XX

Events rushed headlong past. Ira played a round twenty minutes at centre in the Day and Robins' game and proved himself steady and dependable. He made mistakes, certainly, more...

16. CHAPTER XVI

Ira escaped that night from the gratitude of those in charge of the meeting, but he had to face it next day. Fred Lyons was almost tearful and Gene slapped him on the back repea...

21. CHAPTER XXI

The sun broke forth at the very instant that the Kenwood kicker's toe sent the pigskin hurtling from the tee, and a flood of wintry sunshine illumined the scene. But a chilling...