Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

The School-Girls in Number 40; or, Principle Put to the Test

“Dear me! dear me!” sighed Carrie Stanley, as she kneeled beside an empty trunk and glanced around her room. “How am I ever to get all these things into two trunks? It’s an impossibility! Where to begin I’m sure I don’t know.”

Chapters

4. CHAPTER IV.

This conversation did not have the effect of re-establishing the intercourse between the cousins on its old familiar footing. When they were together, both the girls felt that t...

6. CHAPTER VI.

After their first fright with regard to Miss Winthrop’s injuries was over, the girls began to think of their own cause for alarm. Fortunately for them, nothing was said by Mr. W...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

Susan saw her difficulty, and at first resolved not to aid her; but after a second or two, reproaching herself for such a feeling, she rose, and, going up to the bureau, took ho...

2. CHAPTER II.

Caroline Stanley and Susan Cameron were cousins, and very nearly of the same age; but neither from their looks nor from their characters would one have supposed that there was a...

3. CHAPTER III.

Carrie, Susan and Sallie were one evening studying their Arithmetic together. The lesson was in Miscellaneous Questions, and they found it uncommonly hard. One problem in partic...

1. CHAPTER I.

“Dear me! dear me!” sighed Carrie Stanley, as she kneeled beside an empty trunk and glanced around her room. “How am I ever to get all these things into two trunks? It’s an impo...

5. CHAPTER V.

This was no idle threat. For days Florence spent much time and thought in devising various plans for revenging herself; but for a long while she could not hit on any thing satis...

7. CHAPTER VII.

There was no little emulation and rivalry among the pupils with regard to the prizes; but it was generally conceded by all that the composition-prize, which ranked first, would...