Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
WILLIAM, taking his character as a whole, was not of the artistic genre. He had none of the shrinking sensitiveness and delicate imaginativeness of the true artist. But the fact remains that this summer he was impelled by some inner prompting to write a play.
WILLIAM considered that the microbe world was treating him unfairly. Mild chicken-pox would be, on the whole, a welcome break in the monotony of life. It would mean delicacies s...
14. CHAPTER XIVWILLIAM laid aside "Robinson Crusoe" with a sigh. His dreams of pirate-king and robber-chief vanished. The desire of his heart now was to be shipwrecked on a desert island. He s...
13. CHAPTER XIIIWILLIAM was on his way to visit his new friend. He whistled as he went, his lips pursed determinedly, his brows drawn into a scowl of absorption, his untidy hair standing, like...
9. CHAPTER IXWilliam did not accompany her because his presence was in any way likely to help her convalescence. On the contrary it was warranted to reduce any person of normal health to a s...
1. CHAPTER IWILLIAM, taking his character as a whole, was not of the artistic genre. He had none of the shrinking sensitiveness and delicate imaginativeness of the true artist. But the fact...
5. CHAPTER V"_I'm longing for the dear ole home agai--ai--ai--ain, That cottage in the little winding la--a--a--ne, I can see the roses climbing, I can hear the sweet bells chiming, And I'm...
11. CHAPTER XITHE circus was to be held in a big tent on the green. William had watched them putting up the tent the day before. He had hung around with wistful eyes fixed upon it. Here was t...
6. CHAPTER VIWILLIAM had before now met the strange species of male who succumbed to the charms of his elder sister. William never could think what people saw in Ethel. Red hair and blue eye...
4. CHAPTER IVWILLIAM'S regular attendance at church on Sunday mornings did not betoken any deeply religious feeling on his part. It was rather the result of pressure from without, weekly app...
12. CHAPTER XIIWILLIAM and Ginger, William's faithful friend and ally, were in a state of bankruptcy. They lacked even the paltry twopence necessary to buy sweets in these days of inflated pri...
10. CHAPTER XTHE play was produced by the village dramatic society. William watched it spellbound from the front row, sitting between his mother and father. It was to him like the gateway to...
3. CHAPTER IIIWILLIAM had gone away with his family for a holiday, and he was not enjoying it. For one reason it was not the sea. Last summer they had gone to the sea and William had enjoyed...
8. CHAPTER VIIITHE person who was ultimately to blame was the secretary of the Dramatic Society of the school of which William was a humble member. The Dramatic Society had given an historical...
2. CHAPTER IIBREAKFAST was not William's favourite meal. With his father shut off from the world by his paper, and his mother by her letters, one would have thought that he would have enjoye...