PDF Books in Children's Short Stories
The Adventure of the Red Circle
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Red Circle is a mystery story by Arthur Conan Doyle which was published as part of series His Last Bow. An young man rents a lodge and pays excess rent for specifically agreed terms. As he has not opened the room since previous night nobody has seen him, but his food and Daily Gazette are collected by him f..
Mark Tidd in the Backwoods
by Clarence Budington KellandIt all started just before school was out. One afternoon when I got home mother showed me a letter from Uncle Hieronymous, who lives in the woods back of Baldwin, on the Middle Branch of the Père Marquette River. I never had seen him, but he and mother wrote to each other quite often, and I guess she’d been telling him a good deal about me, that’s ..
Mark Tidd's Citadel
by Clarence Budington KellandAll four of us, Mark, Plunk Smalley, Binney Jenks, and Tallow Martin, which is me, stood and looked at the big, ramshackle summer hotel and then looked at one another—and three of us grinned. Grinned, did I say? Maybe it started out with a grin, but it ended up with us rolling on the grass and yelling. For the hotel was closed tight, and anybody wi..
Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read
by Charles DickensCharles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of "the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part of the Nineteenth Century, when Victoria was Queen of Great Britain. Perhaps he was the greatest of them all for now, a generation after he passed away, more people read the stories of Dickens than those by any other auth..
To Be Read at Dusk
by Charles DickensTo Be Read at Dusk (1852) is a short story written by Charles Dickens, and was first published in Heath's Keepsake. In the text, five couriers talking amongst themselves outside a convent on the summit of the Great St Bernard Pass are overheard by the narrator as two of their group's members relate short ghost stories; one of a woman who abandons h..
A Child's Dream of a Star
by Charles DickensTHERE was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they w..
Rodney Stone
by Arthur Conan DoyleRodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is taken to London by his uncle Sir Charles Tregellis, a highly respected gentleman and arbiter of fashion who is on familiar terms with the most important people of Great Britain. T..
The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport is a volume collecting 15 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle published on 27 march 1900...