Reading Bear Publications: 82 books

Published in 1900, this book follows the adventures of intrepid sixteen-year-old Dean Dunham as he travels to find his fortune and tries to solve the mystery of his uncle's robbery. A classic novel loaded with action and adventure. Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was...

Fame and Fortune is the second volume in Alger's "Ragged Dick Series." Ragged Dick is now known as Richard Hunter, and he and his friend Henry Fosdick move into a new, slightly more expensive boarding house. After securing their room and moving their belongings from their old dwelling, Richard...

Frank's Campaign, written in 1864, centers around fifteen-year-old Frank Frost, who, in a patriotic gesture, offers to postpone his schooling in order to tend the farm after his father enlists in the Union army. Frank organizes a marching and drilling corps of the area boys, hence the book's title,...

The Birds' Christmas Carol is a novel for the whole family by Kate Douglas Wiggin written and published in 1887 and illustrated by Katharine R. Wireman. The story is about Carol Bird, a Christmas-born child, who as a young girl is unusually loving and generous, having a positive effect on everyone...

Nat Nason, a poor country boy with a strong desire to better his condition leaves the country after a quarrel with his miserly uncle - and strikes out to the big city to find his fortune. Nat's eyes open as he sees the difference between life in a quiet country place and in a great bustling city. He...

This is one of Thornton Burgesses' "Boy Scout Books." This first one features Walter, a scout who has never been to camp. He and his fellow scouts experience lots of adventures and come to meet and appreciate people who have different background than their own. The book has 15 images....

In publishing "Ben, the Luggage Boy," Alger said that it is in all essential points a true history, the particulars of the story having been communicated to him by Ben himself. In particular, the circumstances surrounding the boy's running away from home and adopting the life of a street...

Milt Dale is The Man of the Forest. Living alone in a camp in the wilderness called Paradise Park, he prefers the company of bears, cougars, and wolves to that of the surrounding ranchers and troublemakers. But one day he overhears a conversation that changes his life and convinces him to leave his...

In A Boy's Fortune, Ben Baker, 16, leaves his widowed mother in Connecticut, to seek his fortune in New York City. He goes to New York and takes a job working in his rich uncle's department store, unaware that his uncle made his fortune by robbing Ben's late father. Five years earlier, Ben’s father...

Frank Reade, Jr. was a fictional teen-age, steampunk, inventor-hero of the late 19th century. He starred in at least 179 action dime novels. His father was featured in only four novels, and relied on steam power. Frank Jr. turned to electricity and invented about every kind of land, see and air vehicle...

Hector's Inheritance was published in 1900. It tells the story of Hector Roscoe, whose uncle does everything in his power to cheat Hector out of his rightful inheritance. At the time he was saving his money, Hector regarded himself as the heir and future possessor of a large estate, and had no expectation...

Helping Himself: In order to pay his minister father's debts, young Grant postpones his college education to take a job as a Wall Street broker's clerk. When Grant Thornton’s family owes a debt of some $260, Mrs. Thornton decides to sell her pearl necklace and bracelets. She sends Grant to New York...