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• Anger: A Story For Boys (London: Dean and Son, 1857) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Bad Boy's Diary (New York: J.S. Ogilvie and Co., c1880), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boy of Mount Rhigi, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)
• Brownsmith's Boy, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dab Kinzer: A Story of a Growing Boy (1884), by William O. Stoddard (Gutenberg text)
• David Blaize (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1916), by E. F. Benson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Dog with a Bad Name, by Talbot Baines Reed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• General Jack, by Edric Vredenburg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Happy Little Edward, and His Pleasant Ride and Rambles in the Country (New Haven: S. Babcock, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Bobtail: or, The Wreck of the Penobscot (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Me and Nobbles (London: Religious Tract Society, 1908), by Amy Le Feuvre (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tim's Troubles (Holiday Library edition, ca. 1874), by M. A. Paull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Well-Bred Boy (text based on the 1884 edition, with illustrations from other editions) (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• All Aboard: or, Life on the Lake, by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text)
• The Bending of a Twig (fifth edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1907), by Desmond Coke
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• Burr Junior, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by H. C. Earnshaw (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Crofton Boys, by Harriet Martineau
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• The Crofton Boys (London: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by Harriet Martineau (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dawn, by Eleanor H. Porter (Gutenberg text and Librivox audio)
• Dawn (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin company, 1919), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock (page images at archive.org)
• J. Cole, by Emma Gellibrand (Gutenberg text)
• Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Will of the Mill, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg text)
• Bivouac and Battle: or, The Struggles of a Soldier (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1873), by Oliver Optic (multiple formats at archive.org)
• His Big Opportunity, by Amy Le Feuvre (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jonas on a Farm in Winter (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Charley's Log: A Story of Schoolboy Life, by Emma Leslie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jack the Englishman, by H. Louisa Bedford, illust. by Walter Paget (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Adventures of Jimmy Brown, by W. L. Alden, illust. by William Ludwell Sheppard (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Chance for Himself; or, Jack Hazard and His Treasure, by J. T. Trowbridge (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tony the Tramp; Or, Right is Might, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg ebook)
• "Peanut": The Story of a Boy, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Catty Atkins, by Clarence Budington Kelland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Strong and Steady; Or, Paddle Your Own Canoe, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jed, the Poorhouse Boy, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Grit; or, The Young Boatman of Pine Point, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg ebook)
• For the Honor of the School: A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport, by Ralph Henry Barbour, illust. by C. M. Relyea (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gayton Scholarship: A School Story, by Herbert Hayens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Arrival of Jimpson, and Other Stories for Boys about Boys, by Ralph Henry Barbour (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Dogs of Boytown, by Walter A. Dyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wreck of the Red Bird: A Story of the Carolina Coast, by George Cary Eggleston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Foxholme Hall, and Other Tales, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg ebook)
• At the Black Rocks, by Edward A. Rand, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Oriel Window, by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by L. Leslie Brooke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Owen's Fortune; Or, "Durable Riches", by Frederic West (Gutenberg ebook)
• Teddy and Carrots: Two Merchants of Newpaper Row, by James Otis, illust. by W. A. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Digby Heathcote: The Early Days of a Country Gentleman's Son and Heir, by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Harrison Weir (Gutenberg ebook)
• The William Henry Letters, by Abby Morton Diaz (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wait and Hope; Or, A Plucky Boy's Luck, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Amateur Fireman, by James Otis, illust. by William de la Montagne Cary (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Boy Knight, by Martin J. Scott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dick in the Desert, by James Otis (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Little Hero, by H. Musgrave, illust. by H. M. Brock (Gutenberg ebook)
• Red, White, Blue Socks. Part Second: Being the Second Book of the Series, by Sarah L. Barrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First: Being the First Book, by Sarah L. Barrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• That Scholarship Boy, by Emma Leslie (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hill: A Romance of Friendship, by Horace Annesley Vachell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Louis' School Days: A Story for Boys, by E. J. May (Gutenberg ebook)
• Charles Duran: Or, The Career of a Bad Boy: By the author of "The Waldos" (Gutenberg ebook)
• Emilie the Peacemaker, by Thomas Geldart (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank (Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1851), by Maria Edgeworth (page images at Florida)
• The Boy's cabinet of instructive and moral stories (New York: Philip J. Cozans, 1861), by Philip, illust. by J. Calvin Smith and Enos Baldwin (page images at Florida)
• Basil, the schoolboy, or, The heir of Arundel (London: Joseph Masters, 1856), by Edward A. Monro, Joseph Masters, and J. Masters and Co (page images at Florida)
• Gabriel (New York: Robert B. Collins, 1850), by Mary Botham Howitt, Robert B Collins, and William Howland (page images at Florida)
• Boys will be boys, or, The difficulties of a schoolboy's life (London: Darton & Co., 1854), by Sophia Kelly, William Stevens, and Darton & Co (page images at Florida)
• My first voyage to southern seas (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1860), by William Henry Giles Kingston and Thomas Nelson & Sons (page images at Florida)
• The boy's own sea stories (London: Addey and Co., 1863), by Charles Nordhoff, William Stevens, John Leighton, Edmund Evans, and Addey and Co (page images at Florida)
• Heroism of boyhood, or, What boys have done (Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1865), by Samuel G. Goodrich, Adolphe François Pannemaker, Jean Antoine Valentin Foulquier, E. J Herington, and Gall & Inglis (page images at Florida)
• A week by themselves (London: Griffith and Farran, 1865), by Emilia Marryat, C. A Edwards, Griffith and Farran, and R. & R. Clark (page images at Florida)
• Arthur Morland (London: John Morgan, 1867), by L. S N., William Dickes, Alfred W. Cooper, and John Morgan (page images at Florida)
• Pete Ogle (Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1869), by D. Lothrop & Company, Rockwell and Churchill, and G.T. Day & Co (page images at Florida)
• The history of Sandford and Merton (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1869), by Thomas Day and J.B. Lippincott & Co (page images at Florida)
• My neighbour's shoes, or, Feeling for others (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1869), by A. L. O. E., Thomas Nelson & Sons, and Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• Unexpected pleasures, or, Left alone in the holidays (London, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1875), by George Cupples (page images at Florida)
• The Barring out, or, Party spirit (London, New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1866), by Maria Edgeworth, illust. by Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• Aunt Mary's words for boys (London, Brighton, Manchester: Religious Tract Society, 1875) (page images at Florida)
• Winter in Spitzbergen (New York: M. W. Dodd, 1852), by Johann Andreas Christoph Hildebrandt, trans. by E. Goodrich Smith, illust. by John D Felter (page images at Florida)
• The History of Sandford and Merton (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1872), by Thomas Day (page images at Florida)
• Holiday tales for schoolboys (London: Darton and Co., 1861), by William Martin (page images at Florida)
• Philosophy in sport made science in earnest (London: John Murray, 1853), by John Ayrton Paris, illust. by George Cruikshank and J. Cooper (page images at Florida)
• The peddler's boy, or, I'll be somebody (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1851), by Francis C. Woodworth (page images at Florida)
• The May-bee (New York: New-York Religious Tract Society, c1852), by Sherwood (Mary Martha) and Daniel Fanshaw (page images at Florida)
• Jonas's stories (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851), by Jacob Abbott (page images at Florida)
• Marco Paul's voyages & travels (New York: Harper & Bros., c1852), by Jacob Abbott, illust. by Carl Emil Doepler, William Roberts, and Lossing & Barritt (page images at Florida)
• Marco Paul's voyages & travels (New York: Harper & Brothers, c1853), by Jacob Abbott, illust. by Carl Emil Doepler, John William Orr, and Lossing & Barritt (page images at Florida)
• Redbrook, or, Who'll buy my water cresses? (Boston: Geo. C. Rand, 1853), by Daniel Wise, Smith & Andrew Baker, and Boston Stereotype Foundry (page images at Florida)
• Jonas on a farm in winter (New York: Clark, Austin & Smith, 1853), by Jacob Abbott (page images at Florida)
• Lazy Lawrence, or, Industry and idleness contrasted (Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton, 1851), by Maria Edgeworth, illust. by William 1790-1860 Croome and Henry Walker 1824-1906 Herrick (page images at Florida)
• Louis' school days (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1851), by E. J. May, illust. by Nathaniel Orr and H. K. (page images at Florida)
• Willie Wills' wings (London: Religious Tract Society, c1890), by G. S. Reaney (page images at Florida)
• Marco Paul's voyages & travels (New York: Harper & Brothers, c1852), by Jacob Abbott, illust. by Carl Emil Doepler, Lossing & Barritt, and Bobbett & Edmonds (page images at Florida)
• The forest pony and other tales (Leamington: Charles F. Blackburn, 1856), by Elizabeth K. Douglas (page images at Florida)
• Marco Paul's voyages & travels (New York: Harper & Brothers, c1852), by Jacob Abbott, illust. by Carl Emil Doepler and Bobbett & Edmonds (page images at Florida)
• Marco Paul's voyages & travels (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1852), by Jacob Abbott, illust. by Carl Emil Doepler and Bobbett & Edmonds (page images at Florida)
• James Gibson and his friend, or, The Two schoolboys (London, New York: Frederick Warne and Co., c1890), by Margaret Howitt, illust. by Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• Little Jakey (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1872), by Helen Aldrich De Kroyft (page images at Florida)
• Tom Brown's school-days (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., c1890), by Thomas Hughes (page images at Florida)
• Fitz-Hugh St. Clair the South Carolina rebel boy, or, It is no crime to be born a gentleman (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, n.d.), by Sallie F. Moore Chapin, illust. by Sharp (page images at Florida)
• The new history of Sanford and Merton (London: Bradbury, Agnew, and Co., 1873), by F. C. Burnand, Thomas Day, and Agnew and Co Bradbury, illust. by Linley Sambourne (page images at Florida)
• Walter's Friend, or, big boys and little boys (London and New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1873), by H. C Adams, illust. by Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• Heroism of boyhood, or, What boys have done (London and Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1872), by Samuel G. Goodrich, illust. by Horace Harral, Adolphe François Pannemaker, E. J Herington, and Jean Antoine Valentin Foulquier (page images at Florida)
• Ben Howard, or, Truth and honesty (London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by C Adams (page images at Florida)
• The story of Mark Raffles, or, An English boy's adventures among the Japanese (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, n.d.), by William Dalton (page images at Florida)
• Tom Brown's school days (London: Macmillan & Co., 1872), by Thomas Hughes, illust. by Arthur Hughes and Sydney Prior Hall (page images at Florida)
• The house on wheels, or, The stolen child (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1871), by Boston Stereotype Foundry (Electrotyper ), trans. by E. F Adams, illust. by Émile Antoine Bayard and Samuel Smith Kilburn (page images at Florida)
• Harry Lawley and his maiden aunts (London: Sunday School Union, 1878), by Emma Leslie (page images at Florida)
• Leslie Ross, or, Fond of a lark (Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1871), by Charles Bruce (page images at Florida)
• King Jack of Haylands (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871), by F. M. Ss and Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• Charles Duran, or, The career of a bad boy (New-York: Carlton & Porter :, 1850), by Author of The Waldos (page images at Florida)
• A Little hero (London, Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie & Son, c1887), by H. Musgrave (page images at Florida)
• Joe's first earnings, or, The Wickedest weed of all (London: Religious Tract Society, c1896), by Ruth Lamb (page images at Florida)
• Fritz and his work (London: Religious Tract Society, c1896), by Maud Maddick (page images at Florida)
• Sandford and Merton (New York: A.L. Burt, c1895), by Lucy Aikin and Thomas Day, illust. by J. Watson Davis (page images at Florida)
• The Jungle book (New York: Century Co., 1894), by Rudyard Kipling, illust. by W. H Drake and Paul Frenzeny (page images at Florida)
• The Queen's oak (London: Religious Tract Society, c1894), by Lucy Byerley (page images at Florida)
• Ups and downs (London: Religious Tract Society, c1890), by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (page images at Florida)
• The Little V.C. (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Helen Marion Burnside, illust. by W. T. Smedley (page images at Florida)
• One good turn deserves another, and other sketches (London: Religious Tract Society, c1888), by C. L Courtenay (page images at Florida)
• Little Jim (London: James B. Knapp, c1899), by Henry Wood Smith (page images at Florida)
• Just a little boy (New York, London: Frederick Warne & Co., c1897), by Alice Ashworth, illust. by Lee Woodward Zeigler (page images at Florida)
• Emilie the peacemaker (London: A. Hall, Virtue, & Co., 1851), by Thomas Geldart, illust. by William Dickes (page images at Florida)
• Hurrah for New England!, or, The Virginia boy's vacation (Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1851), by Cornelia L Tuthill and Louisa C Tuthill (page images at Florida)
• Teddy and Carrots (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, n.d.), by James Otis and Geo. C. Scott & Sons, illust. by W. A. Rogers (page images at Florida)
• Little Ivan's hero (London: Ernest Nister, c1898), by Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton, illust. by E. Stuart Hardy (page images at Florida)
• On a coral reef (New York, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883), by Arthur Locker (page images at Florida)
• Stories of school-boys (Philadelphia: American Sunday-school Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, 1850), by American Sunday School Union (page images at Florida)
• Gabriel (New York: Collins and Brother, 1850), by Mary Botham Howitt, William Howland, and Collins & Brother (page images at Florida)
• The mimic (London: Houlston and Wright, 1868), by Maria Edgeworth, Houlston and Wright, and J. & W. Rider (page images at Florida)
• The drummer boy (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1863), by J. T. Trowbridge, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley and John Andrew (page images at Florida)
• The history of Sandford & Merton (Philadelphia: James K. Simon, 1851), by Thomas Day (page images at Florida)
• The life of a dutiful son (London: Darton and Co., 1854), by Mary Elliott, William Stevens, and Darton & Co (page images at Florida)
• Lawrence, or, The little sailor (Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1854), by George Quigley, C Dolman, and Md.) John Murphy & Co. (Baltimore (page images at Florida)
• The cherry stones, or, Charlton School (New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1851), by William Adams, H. C Adams, Tompkins Harrison Matteson, and Bobbett & Edmonds (Engineer ) (page images at Florida)
• "No such word as fail", or, The children's journey (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1852), by Alice B. Haven, illust. by Albert H. Jocelyn (page images at Florida)
• Sketches for school boys (Andover Ms: John D. Flagg, 1853) (page images at Florida)
• Story of Ralph Moore (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, n.d.) (page images at Florida)
• Teachers' offering, or, Interesting stories for school children (Boston: Wm. J. Reynolds & Co., 1854) (page images at Florida)
• Philosophy in sport made science in earnest (New York: Clark, Austin & Smith, 1853), by John Ayrton Paris, illust. by George Cruikshank and Gilbert & Gihon (page images at Florida)
• The history of Sandford and Merton (Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1857), by Thomas Day (page images at Florida)
• The cherry-stones, or, Charlton School (London: Francis & John Rivington, 1852), by William Adams and H. C Adams (page images at Florida)
• The cherry-stones, or, Charlton School (London: Francis & John Rivington, 1851), by William Adams, ed. by H. C Adams (page images at Florida)
• Heroism of boyhood, or, What boys have done (London and Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1890), by Samuel G. Goodrich, illust. by Horace Harral, Adolphe François Pannemaker, E. J Herington, and Jean Antoine Valentin Foulquier (page images at Florida)
• Sandford and Merton in words of one syllable (London and New York: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1865), by Lucy Aikin, Thomas Day, and Petter & Galpin Cassell (page images at Florida)
• The history of Prince Perrypets (London: Macmillan and Co., 1872), by Louisa Knatchbull-Hugessen, illust. by W. J Wiegand (page images at Florida)
• Harry at school (London: Griffith and Farran, 1862), by Emilia Marryat, illust. by John Absolon (page images at Florida)
• Robert Jackson's rescue (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, n.d.) (page images at Florida)
• Sketches of little boys (London: Dean and Co., 1846), by Corner (Julia) (page images at Florida)
• The wild marsh-marigolds (London et al.: Blackie & Son, 1887), by Darley Dale (page images at Florida)
• The story of Patsy (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, n.d.), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and H.O. Houghton & Company (page images at Florida)
• True under trial (New York: E.P. Dutton and Company., 1885), by Frances Palmer, illust. by G. L Seymour and W. A Cranston (page images at Florida)
• True under trial (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1888), by Frances Palmer (page images at Florida)
• A year at school (London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1874), by Tom Brown (page images at Florida)
• Uncle Barnaby's budget (London (56 Paternoster Row; 65 St. Paul's Churchyard and 164 Piccadilly) et al.: Religious Tract Society, 1870) (page images at Florida)
• The boys who could not read (London et al.: Religious Tract Society, 1874) (page images at Florida)
• Frank Russell, or, Living for an object (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1892), illust. by Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• Sandford and Merton in words of one syllable (New York: McLoughlin Brother's, Publishers, 1890), by Lucy Aikin and Thomas Day (page images at Florida)
• The story of a bad boy (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and H.O. Houghton & Company, illust. by A. B. Frost (page images at Florida)
• Bel's baby (London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1893), by Mary E Ropes (page images at Florida)
• The Crofton boys (Manchester et al.: Alfonzo Gardiner, 1896), by Harriet Martineau (page images at Florida)
• The boys of Willoughby School (Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1896), by Robert Richardson (page images at Florida)
• Being a boy (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897), by Charles Dudley Warner, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and H.O. Houghton & Company, illust. by Clifton Johnson (page images at Florida)
• The resolute Mr. Pansy (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1898), by John Trowbridge, illust. by Victor A Searles (page images at Florida)
• Three little crackers from down in Dixie (Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1898), by Will Allen Dromgoole and C.H. Simonds & Co, illust. by Etheldred B. Barry (page images at Florida)
• Aunt Martha's corner cupboard, or, Stories about tea, coffee, sugar, rice, etc. (Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., 1898), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby (page images at Florida)
• Reuben's hindrances and how he made them helps toward progress (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1898), by Pansy, illust. by Hiram P Barnes (page images at Florida)
• Adventures of Peterkin Paul (Boston Mass: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1897), by John Brownjohn (page images at Florida)
• Daddy's boy (London et al.: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1898), by L. T. Meade, illust. by Laura Troubridge (page images at Florida)

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