Amanda Minnie Douglas: 47 books

A classic for young women.

When little Hannah Ann's father first proposes the idea of a trip to New York, she's beside herself with excitement. As the day of the journey approaches, she can hardly stand the anticipation. Despite a few misadventures, the vacation fully lives up to her expectations. Younger readers will enjoy this look back at the early history of the Big Apple.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. New Year's came in with a ringing of bells and firing of pistols. Four years more, and the world would reach the half-century mark. That seemed very ancient to the little girl in Old New York. They talked about...

After falling victim to a series of tragedies at a tender age, a little French-English girl named Doris makes her way to America to settle in with a new adoptive family. It's quite an adjustment, but Doris is fascinated by the sights and sounds of Boston, one of the oldest cities in the American colonies. Younger readers will relish this unique glimpse into early American history.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Ralph Destournier went gayly along, whistling a merry French song that was nearly all chorus, climbing, slipping, springing, wondering in his heart as many a man did then what had induced Samuel de Champlain to...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. There is a courtesy of the heart. Is it akin to love? – GOETHE..

A tale of a girl in Old Salem.

The Leveretts were at their breakfast in the large sunny room in Derby Street. It had an outlook on the garden, and beyond the garden was a lane, well used and to be a street itself in the future. Then, at quite a distance, a strip of woods on a rise of ground, that still further enhanced the prospect....

The Leveretts were at their breakfast in the large sunny room in Derby Street. It had an outlook on the garden, and beyond the garden was a lane, well used and to be a street itself in the future. Then, at quite a distance, a strip of woods on a rise of ground, that still further enhanced the prospect....

The bell had clanged and the gates of the stockade were closed. There were some houses on the outside; there was not so much fear of the Indians here, for the French had the art of winning them into friendship. Farms were cultivated, and the rich bottom lands produced fine crops. Small as the town was...

The little girl standing by the window, where the sunshine sifted flecks of gold through the green clustering vines, looked up wistfully. She had wished out in Kentucky that she had a sister, and now that three had welcomed her and taken possession of her, she was not sure that she wanted sisters. She...

Protagonist Virginia Deering has always enjoyed an affluent and privileged lifestyle. But when a chance encounter with a less fortunate soul opens Virginia's eyes to the pain, suffering and poverty that abounds just outside her front door, she vows to take matters into her own hands and change things for the better.

When La Motte Cadillac first sailed up the Strait of Detroit he kept his impressions for after travelers and historians, by transcribing them in his journal. It was not only the romantic side, but the usefulness of the position that appealed to him, commanding the trade from Canada to the Lakes, "and...