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Captain Ralph Bonehill Four Boy Hunters

Fiction
English
46513 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

"Three bull's-eyes, of all things! Snap, you are getting to be a wonder with the rifle. Why, even [more]

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Janell Hart The Boy Next Door

(Part II of A Kickback Gone Wrong....)

Short Story
English
4436 Words
Ages 16 and up
390
1

Sequel of "A Kickback Gone Wrong..." After all of the previous events, a girl has a major flashback which [more]

Keywords: school, love, dejavu, fantasy, romance, drama, funny

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Guillaume Mwamba THE BOY FROM OUTSIDE

Fantasy
English
6 Words
Ages 12 and up
20
0

PROLOGUE: Meshach Mwamba, a non-tongue of consuming fire eyes boy-crashing into the pond of cold rainwater at Nutshell's private [more]

Keywords: THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

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Horatio Alger The Store Boy (Illustrated)

Fiction
English
45224 Words
Ages 10 and up
154
0

Finally Silas Greyson agreed, and Ben promised to be on hand bright and early the next day. It may be stated here that wood was very cheap at Pentonville, so that Ben would not be overpaid. There were some few things about the house which Ben wished to do for his mother before he went to work anywhere, and he thought this a good opportunity to do them. While in the store his time had been so taken up that he was unable to attend to them. He passed a busy day, therefore, and hardly went into the street. Just at nightfall, as he was in the front yard, he was rather surprised to see Tom Davenport open the gate and enter. Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger's name is often invoked incorrectly as though he himself rose from rags to riches, but that arc applied to his characters, not to the author. Essentially, all of Alger's novels share the same theme: a young boy struggles through hard work to escape poverty. Critics, however, are quick to point out that it is not the hard work itself that rescues the boy from his fate, but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty, which brings him into contact with a wealthy elder gentleman, who takes the boy in as a ward. The boy might return a large sum of money that was lost or rescue someone from an overturned carriage, bringing the boy—and his plight—to the attention of some wealthy individual. It has been suggested that this reflects Alger's own patronizing attitude to the boys he tried to help. [more]

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Horatio Alger The Telegraph Boy (Illustrated)

Fiction
English
40530 Words
Ages 10 and up
285
0

"I have two children," she said, "a daughter and a son. The son has recently graduated from college, and is now travelling in Europe. My daughter is now twenty-six years of age. She was beautiful, and our social position was such that my husband, who is a proud man, confidently anticipated that she would make a brilliant match. But at the age of nineteen Ellen fell in love with a clerk in my husband's employ. He was a young man of good appearance and character, and nothing could be said against him except that he was poor. This, however, was more than enough in Mr. Graham's eyes. When Lawrence Brent asked for the hand of our daughter, my husband drove him from the house with insult, and immediately discharged him from his employ. Ellen was high-spirited, and resented this treatment of the man she loved. He soon obtained a place quite as good as the one he had lost, and one day Ellen left the house and married him. She wrote to us, excusing her action, and I would gladly have forgiven her; but her father was obdurate. He forbade my mentioning her name to him, and from that day to this he has never referred to her. In late-nineteenth-century New York City, fifteen-year-old Frank Kavanagh's job as messenger boy brings him many adventures, new friendships, and eventually a great improvement in his fortunes. Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger's name is often invoked incorrectly as though he himself rose from rags to riches, but that arc applied to his characters, not to the author. Essentially, all of Alger's novels share the same theme: a young boy struggles through hard work to escape poverty. Critics, however, are quick to point out that it is not the hard work itself that rescues the boy from his fate, but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty, which brings him into contact with a wealthy elder gentleman, who takes the boy in as a ward. The boy might return a large sum of money that was lost or rescue someone from an overturned carriage, bringing the boy—and his plight—to the attention of some wealthy individual. It has been suggested that this reflects Alger's own patronizing attitude to the boys he tried to help. [more]

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Jayden Lottman The bad boy

Romance
English
9358 Words
Ages 3 and up
3188
37

ClaraBell moves to yet another new town. New school, new people, and new friends. ClaraBell fits in pretty [more]

Keywords: Sex, Badboy, Romance

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Amy Steedman David the Shepherd Boy

Fiction
English
3964 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Amy Steedman wrote scores of books for children, many of which were used in homeschools and private academies in her native Britain. They include In God’s Garden (c. 1905), Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters (1907), Stories from the Arabian Knights (1907), Nursery Tales Told to the Children (1908), Our Island Saints (1912), The Madonna of the Goldfinch (1918), and David the Shepherd Boy (c. 1926). [more]

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Alex Walton The non talking boy

Adventure
English
4958 Words
Ages 14 and up
414
2

This book is about a boy named James who does not know how to talk and when he [more]

Keywords: car, crash, refugee, council

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William Rand The New Boy

Horror
English
8615 Words
Ages 16 and up
613
4

Paul Greer did not want to kill again. His daughter Brenda’s boyfriend, murdered secretly by Greer because he was African American, seems to be a successfully hidden part of the past. When the new white boy Brenda brings home proves satisfactory to Greer, he thinks the family’s problems are behind them. Soon, images, brought on by guilt, he thinks, change everything. The dead youth’s likeness appears to Greer and his wife in the form of people they know. The spirit of the dead, seeking vengeance, threatens to destroy everything that Greer holds dear. [more]

Keywords: horror, short stories, horror stories, short reads, ghost stories, racism

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George Durston The Boy Scout Aviators

Fiction
English
39513 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

Colonel George Durston was a fictional author created by the Saalfield Publishing Company, who was credited with the authorship of various American series books. Durston is credited for the "Boy Scouts" series, 24 volumes originally published by Saalfield between 1912 and 1919. Ghostwriters for the series included Frederick Dey, J.W. Duffield, William A. Wolf, and Georgia Roberts Durston. Col. Durston was also credited with the Potter Brother books, which appeared in the six-book "Stars and Stripes" Series. [more]

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