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ESUJU Historical Children's Library - 90 Free Public Domain eBooks

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This catalogue maps the territory of early 20th-century juvenile fiction through four overlapping categories: Young Readers, School Stories, Children’s Adventures, and Fairy Moral Tales. Rather than treating these as fixed shelves, the arrangement helps you see how a single work can belong to more than one tradition—a school story may double as an adventure, a fairy tale may carry a moral lesson. The 90 titles here draw heavily from series fiction, with recurring characters like Judy Bolton and the Brownie Scouts, alongside standalone tales of orphans, airships, and motorboats. Records link each book to its Project Gutenberg source, list authors and keywords, and often note word count and reading time, so you can gauge what you’re picking up.

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