Wiggin Kate Douglas: 173 books

This book is a charming story about a mother and her children. Mrs. Carey refers to her children as her chickens, thus the title. Mrs. Carey is a great mother who cares about her children and their friends. This story is about their adventures as a family. The Carey family learn to love and support...

To a certain handful of dear New England women of names unknown to the world, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown:—

Aunt Celia went up behind him, and, Van Tyck though she is, she could not restrain her admiration of his work. I was surprised myself: I didn't suppose so good looking a youth could do such good work. I retired to a safe distance, and they chatted together. He offered her the sketch; she refused to...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

Eden Place was a short street running at right angles with Eden Square, a most unattractive and infertile triangle of ground in a most unattractive but respectable quarter of a large city. It was called a square, not so much, probably, because it was triangular in shape, as because it was hardly large...

I Miss Miranda Sawyer's old-fashioned garden was the pleasantest spot in Riverboro on a sunny July morning. The rich color of the brick house gleamed and glowed through the shade of the elms and maples. Luxuriant hop-vines clambered up the lightning rods and water spouts, hanging their delicate clusters...

Mother Ann's Children A Son of Adam Divers Doctrines Louisa's Mind The Little Quail Bird Susanna speaks in Meeting "The Lower Plane" Concerning Backsliders Love Manifold Brother and Sister "The Open Door" The Hills of Home

Lovely tale written for younger readers, all the way through teens.  Quick and humorous, this is a fun tale even for adults.

Hugely popular when it was first published in 1903 and admired by authors from Jack London to Mark Twain, this delightful novel introduced a heroine as irrepressible and fun-loving as Tom Sawyer, who would serve as a role model for a century of American girls and women. When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall...