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The Red Swing

by Adriano Moraglio & Mariacristina Gribaudi

Summer 1965. "Mariacristina! How long have you been on that swing?" "Mum, you know I love it...". It's a summer Sunday afternoon. My mother is busy in the kitchen preparing dinner. Every now and then she casts...

Pier 21

by Steven Schwinghamer & Jan Raska

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when it...

Our Corner Store

by Robert Heidbreder & Chelsea O'Byrne

Race you to our corner grocery store!

Stanstones corner store is the heart of the neighborhood for the brother and sister in this story. They help to close the store every Saturday and save their pennies to buy...

A Modern Utopia

by H.G. Wells

A Modern Utopia is a novel by H. G. Wells.

Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare.

It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. These include...

A Martian Odyssey

by Stanley Weinbaum

A Martian Odyssey is a science fiction short story by Stanley Weinbaum. It was Weinbaum's second published story (in 1933 he had sold a romantic novel, The Lady Dances, to King Features Syndicate under the pseudonym...

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is an expanded version of the short story Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's, which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine...

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne

A Journey to the Center of the Earth is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne.

The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth....

A Hunger Artist

by Franz Kafka

A Hunger Artist is a short story by Franz Kafka. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler), the last book Kafka prepared for publication, printed by Verlag Die Schmiede...

A Girl of the Limberlost

by Gene Stratton-Porter

A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel by American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter. It is considered a classic of Indiana literature. It is the sequel to her earlier novel Freckles.

Patricia Raub (Senior...

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month.

The play is significant for...

A Daughter of the Snows

by Jack London

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens.

A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of...

A Child's History of England

by Charles Dickens

A Child's History of England is a book by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853. Dickens also published the work in book form...

A Changed Man

by Thomas Hardy

A Changed Man and Other Tales is a collection of twelve tales written by Thomas Hardy. The collection was originally published in book form in 1913, although all of the tales had been previously published in...

2 b r 0 2 b

by Kurt Vonnegut

2 B R 0 2 B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The...

1914

by John French

For a memoir of World War I, Sir John French's book 1914, does a fairly good job of recounting the facts, however skewed they may be. French, whose full name and titles are quite daunting, was Field Marshal...

Healing Politics

by Abdul El-Sayed & Ady Barkan

From a rising voice in progressive politics, a combination of memoir, science, and public policy, diagnosing the challenges facing America and laying out a way forward

A child of immigrants, Abdul El-Sayed grew...

Ada Lovelace (The First Names Series)

by Ben Jeapes & Nick Ward

Meet the woman who made coding cool--and possible!

Before she was a famous mathematician and the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of well-known poet Lord Byron. Byron died...

Malala Yousafzai (The First Names Series)

by Lisa Williamson & Mike Smith

Meet the young activist who stood up for her rights--and changed millions of lives

Before Malala Yousafzai (b. 1997) became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, she was a girl fighting for her education in...