Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic

This is about a girl who drove the village cows out to pasture every morning and back to the village every evening. She had to pass a small cottage, almost hidden with flowers,...

"I just wish I could do as I've a mind to for once in my life!" said Lettie Glover crossly, when her mother refused to allow her to carry out a plan she had made. "I never can d...

The afternoon was wearing away, and thoughts of home and the warm supper awaiting them began to stir in the children's thoughts, and many glances were turned to the clock which...

This story is about a girl not much older than you, who had a great trouble come upon her, some years ago. Her father who was--I'm sorry to say--a drunkard, had at last died, le...

Mrs. Jervis and her two children, Ethel and Harry, were on their way to spend Christmas with the grandmother, who lived in a small town in Minnesota, three or four hours' journe...

One morning three cousins were walking slowly down the village street towards the house of their Aunt Betty, where they had been invited to dine. They were eager and excited, fo...

They had no father or mother, and the sisters were clerks in a store, for they had to support themselves. They lived in one room, high up in a business block, so as to be near t...

I had been spending the winter, as you know, with my sister in San Francisco, going to school, and I was expecting to come home in a few days when the thing happened.

"You're not going to die, May," said Lottie impatiently, "and I hope you'll see lots of Christmas trees--if you don't this year. It's your turn to go to Aunt Laura's next."

It does not seem very good in the beginning--but you shall see. One cold winter night a man in the city came home crazy with drink. I will not tell you what he did to his trembl...

Helen had a large family of dolls of many kinds: stiff kid-bodied dolls with heads made of some sort of composition that broke very easily, and legs and feet from the knees down...

One warm spring morning, near the town of A----, away off in the edge of the deep woods, a bear awoke from his long winter sleep, came out of his den under the roots of a great...

My mother was not a very strong woman, while I was a healthy strong girl, so when she tried to teach me to knit and sew, I always managed to get out of it, and she was too weak...

I was twelve years old when I had the most dreadful experience of my life--an experience that I am sure would have ended in my death or insanity if it had not been for the love...

The school to which Helen went--and where Bessie went with her--was not like the great schoolhouses they have now. It had but two rooms, one for girls and the other for boys. So...

"I think it's just horrid!" said Kristy, standing before the window, peering out into a world of drizzling rain. "Every single thing is ready and every girl promised to come, an...