Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
A little brown house, with an old elm-tree before it, a frame of lattice-work around the door, with a broad stone for a step--this is where old Grannie Burt lives. And there she is sitting in the doorway with her Bible in her lap. She can't read it, for she is blind; but she l...
One Sunday afternoon, as Mary sat reading in the porch, Jack and Charlie came and sat down by her on the old sofa; and soon Charlie put his little curly head between her face an...
3. Chapter 3What a beautiful morning it was, that Christmas morning! It seemed as though the earth, in its pure robe of snow, and the trees, in their sparkling armour of ice, every twig jew...
5. Chapter 5"O Mother! Fanny Bell, and Mary Green, and ever so many of the girls, are going into the woods to-morrow afternoon, and they want us to go with them. May we, mother?" said Belle...
1. Chapter 1A little brown house, with an old elm-tree before it, a frame of lattice-work around the door, with a broad stone for a step--this is where old Grannie Burt lives. And there she...
2. Chapter 2One bright sunshiny day, just when the snow had commenced melting, the children started in high glee to take advantage of its softened state to make a snow-man. This was a favou...
4. Chapter 4"Oh, what a darling it is!" said Nannie to Belle, as they stood looking at the little bundle sister Mary was holding. "What wee bits of hands!" she said, as she opened the blank...
7. Chapter 7"Nannie, father has just gone down to Grannie Burt's, and he wants you to go there too. Mother is going now, and she says you may go with her if you'll make haste."