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The Junior Classics Volume 9: Stories of To-day

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The first part of this volume consists of stories by modern writers dealing mainly with life in our own day. They are, of course, meant for the older children, and both the style and the situations call for more maturity on the part of the reader. The lure of the extraordinary is now dispensed with, and instead these tales supply the interest that comes from recognizable truth to experience.

The list of fiction contained in this volume, representing the imaginative product of almost all races and times, is fitly closed by the gift made to the children of England of a story for themselves by the master of English novelists, William Makepeace Thackeray.
- Summary by William Patten (15 hr 9 min)

Chapters

Brother Rabbit’s Cradle by Joel Chandler Harris

30:33

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

The Little Baxters Go Marketing by Tudor Jenks

8:55

Read by Nan Dodge

A Story of Decoration Day for the Little Children of To-day by Elizabeth Harris…

13:10

Read by Lola Janie

The Taxes of Middlebrook by Ray Stannard Baker

23:08

Read by tommack

The Cure of Fear by Norman Duncan

17:41

Read by April6090

A Christmas Adventure by J.E. Chamberlin

17:59

Read by drwebber

Chased by the Trail by Jack London

23:15

Read by Anita Sloma-Martinez

Big Timber Beacon by John L. Mathews

19:16

Read by April6090

How Hilda Got a School by Lelia Munsell

13:00

Read by Shashank Jakhmola

The Imp and the Drum by Josephine D. Bacon

29:37

Read by drwebber

The Second String by James B. Connolly

21:08

Read by MysticV0ice

Holding the Pipe by Albert W. Tolman

15:19

Read by drwebber

The Travelling Doll by Evelyn Snead Barnett

24:37

Read by drwebber

The Doll Doctor by E. V. Lucas

24:52

Read by Navin

The Idea that Went Astray by Pauline C. Bouvé

5:32

Read by Aaron Parsons

Gravity Gregg by Isaac Ogden Rankin

13:38

Read by drwebber

Jonnasen by Dallas Lore Sharp

9:40

Read by christytalks

In the Oven by Richard W. Child

10:02

Read by drwebber

On a Slide-Board by Robert Barnes

12:39

Read by CoriM77

The Call of the Sea by Frederick Palmer

19:25

Read by April6090

On a Tight Rope by Albert W. Tolman

12:36

Read by drwebber

Down the Incline by Charles Newton Hood

8:04

Read by drwebber

The Cost of Loving by Frederick O. Bartlett

25:31

Read by mleigh

Ladybird by Edith Barnard

26:50

Read by Dani Joy

The Drasnoe Pipe-Line by Arthur Stanwood Pier

24:23

Read by TriciaG

Manuk Del Monte by Rowland Thomas

16:04

Read by Brianna Chiles

The Man Without a Country, part 1 by Edward Everett Hale

31:19

Read by Pratibha Singh

The Man Without a Country, part 2 by Edward Everett Hale

32:34

Read by Pratibha Singh

The Foreman by Stewart E. White

22:53

Read by drwebber

The Gray Collie by Georgia W. Pangborn

18:10

Read by April6090

The Fore-Room Rug by Kate Douglas Wiggin

34:29

Read by TriciaG

Cressy’s New-Year’s Rent by Albert Lee

16:17

Read by Julie Fuller

Mr. O’Leary’s Second Love by Charles Lever

30:04

Read by TriciaG

The Rose and the Ring by William M. Thackeray

4:56

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

I. Shows How the Royal Family Sat Down to Breakfast

9:29

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

II. How King Valoroso Got the Crown, and Prince Giglio Went Without

9:05

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

III. Tells Who the Fairy Blackstick Was, and Who Were Ever So Many Grand Person…

11:53

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

IV. How Blackstick Was Not Asked to the Princess Angelica’s Christening

6:34

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

V. How Princess Angelica Took a Little Maid

11:04

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

VI. How Prince Giglio Behaved Himself

15:59

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

VII. How Giglio and Angelica Had a Quarrel

12:52

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

VIII. How Gruffanuff Picked the Fairy Ring Up, and Prince Bulbo Came to Court

17:37

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

IX. How Betsinda Got the Warming-Pan

13:12

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

X. How King Valoroso Was in a Dreadful Passion

7:02

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

XI. What Gruffanuff Did to Giglio and Betsinda

20:05

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

XII. How Betsinda Fled, and What Became of Her

12:19

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

XIII. How Queen Rosalba Came to the Castle of the Bold Count Hogginarmo

10:22

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

XIV. What Became of Giglio

30:11

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

XV. We Return to Rosalba

16:00

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

XVI. How Hedzoff Rode Back Again to King Giglio

11:29

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

XVII. How a Tremendous Battle Took Place, and Who Won It

13:23

Read by JodiS

XVIII. How They All Journeyed Back to the Capital

13:26

Read by Lola Janie

XIX. And Now We Come to the Last Scene in the Pantomime

10:03

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson