Little Men (Little, Brown, and Co., 1901) is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women. In Little Men, the March girls are grown. Jo and her husband, Mr. Bhaer, run a boarding school for young boys. The book recounts the adventures, escapades, and lessons learned by the thirteen ...

David Copperfield (Penguin Classics, 1996) by Charles Dickens is the charming tale of a young boy’s life in nineteenth- centuryEngland. Readers are shown Dickens’ universe through the eyes of innocent David Copperfield, as he passes through the various stages of childhood and boyhood into adulthood. Readers will be entertained, instructed, ...

In the foreword to Strawberry Girl (Harper Trophy, 1973), author Lois Lenski writes, “Few people realize how new Florida is. . . .” Strawberry Girl is Lenski’s attempt to bring to life the little-known history of pioneer living during the early 1900s. It is a delightful story that chronicles the ...

Lessons of Loyalty and Love Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White (Harper Collins, 1952) is a lovely story of friendship between a lonely pig and a gentle spider. The story begins when a young girl named Fern rescues a runt pig and names him Wilbur. Wilbur and Fern spend long ...

A Heritage of Song Mr. Pipes and the British Hymn Makers by Douglas Bond (Christian Liberty, 1999) provides a thorough history of several major and minor British hymn writers. An organist tells the stories to two young American children, Annie and Drew, who find themselves stranded in the smallvillage ofOlney,England, ...

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is set in the eighteenth-century English countryside. The story revolves around the five Bennett sisters and, especially, around Jane and Elizabeth, the two eldest. When Mr. Bingley, a gentleman fromLondon, rents a house in the neighborhood, Mrs. Bennett is exceedingly pleased as hopeful visions of ...