Reading Bear Publications: 82 books

In this 1894 novel, Carl Crawford is driven from home by his scheming step-mother who wishes to possess her husband's entire fortune for herself and her own son. Carl has to learn how to turn adversity into success -- if he can. A great example of personal success story-telling from the master,...

Facing the World, a classic collection of adventures, narrates the story of a boy who flees away from a cruel guardian and is fortunate enough to find a loyal friend. Together they journey by sea far and wide. Alger has beautifully captured life, and its various aspects like strife, success in the...

Rufus and Rose is last of six books in the Ragged Dick series Alger wrote about the life of struggling boys in New York City, a place that had to be pretty scary at the end of the 19th century. "Newsboys," sold newspapers one at a time on the streets, and "boot blacks" shined the...

Do and Dare is the story of Herbert Carr, the son of a war widow who had assumed her husband's place as postmaster of the small rural town in Wayneboro. Widow Carr is upset because Squire Walsingham is using his political influence to take the post away from the widow and put into the hands of his...

Motor Matt in Brazil is another splendid adventure of this mechanical genius, and while his adventures are unusual, they are drawn so true to life that the reader can clearly see how it is possible for the ordinary young man to experience them. Stanley R. Matthews was a pseudonym used by William...

Why are Peter Rabbit's ears so long? And why does Reddy Fox have no friends? Learn the answers to these and other mysteries about the beloved animals of the Green Meadow in this time-honored collection of fifteen tales. This classic title, companion to the perennial favorite Old Mother West Wind,...

This is one of Thornton W. Burgesses' immensely popular "Bedtime Story-Books." Here, Chatterer the Red Squirrel has talked for too long and too loudly, and now he is being chased By Shadow the Weasel. Chatterer is truly running for his life. But, instead of being caught by Shadow, he walks...

This is one of Burgesses' "Green Forest" books. Whitefoot the Wood Mouse has found a perfect den for winter, he thinks, in the corner of Farmer Brown's sugar house. But, is it perfect, or is it a trap? Whitefoot is also lonely. He has been alone all his life, and he would really like to...

A Kidnapped Santa Claus is a perfect bedtime short story. The story opens with a quick overview of Santa's castle in the Laughing Valley. In the five Caves surrounding the Valley are people known as "the Daemons." These people are not all bad. Four of the five, the Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred,...

Heart's Kindred was published during WW I, but it is a peace book, climaxed with a scene in which women present their view of war at a peace gathering. The hero, who has left his California mine to enlist in some army, any army, hears the women and realizes that killing is not the chief end of man. Those...

Heart's Kindred was published during WW I, but it is a peace book, climaxed with a scene in which women present their view of war at a peace gathering. The hero, who has left his California mine to enlist in some army, any army, hears the women and realizes that killing is not the chief end of man. Those...

"Drag" Harlan is a tough cowboy vigilante. After learning about a gold mine from a dying man, he seeks his daughter as well as the gold. He falls in love with her, but the same gang that shot the old man is after the gold. Charles Alden Seltzer (15 August 1875–February 1942) was...

Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by many critics to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time." The...

Santa Claus's Helper: Livingstone has reached a pinnacle in his life. He is finally worth 7 figures, yet his bottom line requires that he cut back on charities this year at Christmas time. Business is business, after all. But success makes him surly and his accomplishment soon feels anti-climatic....