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• The Lamplighter (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, 1854), by Maria S. Cummins
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at Northwestern
• Aaron the Jew: A Novel (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1895), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• Silas Marner, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (Mobile, AL: S. H. Goetzel, 1863), by George Eliot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)

• The Dial of Destiny (Boston: Roxburgh Pub. Co., c1911), by Frederick Luther Koontz, illust. by Tinsley Mayer (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Minna Raymond, or, Self-Sacrifice: A Tale for the Young (London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864), by Alfred Elwes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dickory Dock, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jessica's First Prayer (with color illustrations; London: Religious Tract Society. n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (PDF files with commentary at Roehampton)

• The Madness of Philip, and Other Tales of Childhood (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1902.), by Josephine Daskam Bacon, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Believing Years (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)

• I'm Nobody's Child (Ardmore, PA: Whitman Pub. Co., c1982), by Kenneth J. Herrmann (PDF with commentary at Brockport)

• Decline and Fall (revised edition, c1962), by Evelyn Waugh (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Red Pony (illustrator died in 1966; c1937), by John Steinbeck, illust. by Wesley Dennis (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
• David Copperfield (2 volumes; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, ca. 1850), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden (Los Angeles: Seraphic Press, 2005), by Robert J. Avrech (PDF with commetary at seraphicpress.com)
• Penrod, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Penrod (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Gordon Grant (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Penrod and Sam, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Penrod and Sam (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1916), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Worth Brehm (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Three Rousing Cheers for the Rollo Boys (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Corey Ford, illust. by Gluyas Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dogland (prepublication version, 1997), by Will Shetterly (multiple formats at manybooks.net)
• A Child of the Jago (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1897), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Child of the Jago (New York: Duffield and Co., 1906), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance (new and cheaper edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1915), by Jeffery Farnol (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
• Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life (1929), by Thomas Wolfe (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (c1934), by James Hilton (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Hole in the Wall (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1903), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text)
• Kim (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901), by Rudyard Kipling (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • HTML at americanliterature.com
• Sir Gibbie, by George MacDonald
  • multiple formats with commentary at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text
• A Son of the State (London: Methuen and Co., 1902), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text)
• Tom Brown's Schooldays (with illustrations from the 1911 Harper and Brothers edition), by Thomas Hughes, contrib. by William Dean Howells, illust. by Louis Rhead (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Factory Girl (originally published 1814; with extensive added notes), by Sarah Savage, ed. by Duncan Faherty and Ed White (PDF with commentary at common-place.org)
• The Young Apprentice (credited to "the author of Fern's Hollow", i.e. Stretton; Boston: H. Hoyt, n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cherry Feasts for Barbarous Fourths (Watertown, NY: Hungerford-Holbrook Co., 1909), by Asenath Carver Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Home at Greylock (New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co., 1876), by E. Prentiss
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Other People's Children: Containing a Veracious Account of the Management of Helen's Babies by a Lady Who Knew Just How the Children of Other People Should be Trained; Also a Statement of the Exact Measure of Success Obtained (Toronto: Belford Bros., 1867), by John Habberton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cap'n Warren's Wards, by Joseph Crosby Lincoln, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Chariot of Fire (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1910), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Guteberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Samantha on Children's Rights (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1909), by Marietta Holley, illust. by Charles Grunwald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• Rosehead (c2014), by Ksenia Anske (multiple formats with commentary at kseniaanske.com)
• A Girl of the Limberlost (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Gene Stratton-Porter, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Studies for Stories, From Girls' Lives, by Jean Ingelow (HTML in the UK)
• The White Riband: or, A Young Female's Folly (New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1921), by F. Tennyson Jesse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An American Girl in London (Toronto: Williamson, 1891), by Sara Jeannette Duncan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Diana of Kara-Kara (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1924), by Edgar Wallace
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• The End of a Childhood: The Complete Stories of Henry Handel Richardson (1934), by Henry Handel Richardson (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Mord Em'ly (London: C. A. Pearson Ltd., 1898), by W. Pett Ridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Old Curiosity Shop (based on an undated Chapman and Hall edition), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne, George Cattermole, Samuel Williams, and Daniel Maclise (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.