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• Ethel Morton's Enterprise, by Mabell S. C. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Poor Little Bewildered Henry, Who Was Shut Up in an Old Abbey for Three Weeks: A Story Founded On Fact (1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Princess and Joe Potter (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, c1898), by James Otis, illust. by Violet Oakley (Gutenberg text)
• And Both Were Young (New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1949), by Madeleine L'Engle (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Our Soldier Boy, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Victor Venner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Through Forest and Fire (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1891), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lost Child (Boston: Putnam and Hunt, Pierce and Williams, and Wait, Greene and Co., 1830), by Timothy Flint (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• The Lost Child (London and New York: Macmillan and Co;, 1871), by Henry Kingsley, illust. by Lorenz Frølich (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Flight With the Swallows: or, Little Dorothy's Dream (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., n.d.), by Emma Marshall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

• Chita: A Memory of Last Island, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• The Monster, and Other Stories (3-story collection; New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by Stephen Crane
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Monster, and Other Stories, by Stephen Crane (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide (third edition, 2004), by United States Department of Justice (HTML at ncjrs.gov)

• "2002": Childlife One Hundred Years From Now (Chicago: Jamieson-Higgins Co., c1902), by Laura Dayton Fessenden, illust. by R. J. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Kipp (Boston: Loring, c1868), by Louisa May Alcott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Children Stories (adaptations of Dickens illustrated by various artists; adapter and publisher unknown; ca. 1900), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Frances Brundage and Harold Copping (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• 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)

• Rollo at Play: or, Safe Amusements (new revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1855), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ethel Morton at Rose House (Cleveland and New York: World Syndicate Pub. Co., 1915), by Mabell S. C. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Forward, Commandos! (New York: Viking Press, 1944), by Margery Williams Bianco, illust. by Rafaello Busoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Children's Story of David Copperfield (adaptation of Dickens by unknown author; Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., 1926), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Ray Gleason (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Buddy Jim (17th edition; Joliet, IL, et al.: P. F. Volland Co., c1922), by Elizabeth Gordon, illust. by John Rae (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Buddy Jim (23rd edition; Joliet, IL, et al.: P. F. Volland Co., c1922), by Elizabeth Gordon, illust. by John Rae (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Carrots": Just a Little Boy (London: Macmillan and Co., 1876), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• "Carrots": Just a Little Boy (London: Macmillan and Co., 1882), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Crane (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Eric, or, Little by Little (Athelstane edition), by F. W. Farrar (Gutenberg text)
• Eric, or, Little by Little: A Tale of Roslyn School (London and Melbounrne: Ward, Lock, and Co., ca. 1890), by F. W. Farrar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eric, or, Little by Little: A Tale of Roslyn School (London: A. and C. Black, 1897), by F. W. Farrar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Eric, or, Little by Little: A Tale of Roslyn School (1902), by F. W. Farrar (Gutenberg text)
• A Flat Iron for a Farthing: or, Some Passages in the Life of an only Son (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1908), by Juliana Horatia Ewing, illust. by M. V. Wheelhouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Half-Hours with Jimmieboy (New York: R. H. Russell and Son, 1893), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Frank Ver Beck, Charles Howard Johnson, J. T. Richards, and Peter Newell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jackanapes (London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d.), by Juliana Horatia Ewing, illust. by Randolph Caldecott
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Jackanapes (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., c1895), by Juliana Horatia Ewing, illust. by Amy M. Sacker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• L'Auberge de l'Ange Gardien (in French), by Sophie Ségur (Gutenberg text)
• The Little Savage, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)
• Now or Never: or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright (1872), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text)
• Now or Never: or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright (new edition; New York: Mershon, c1884), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Through Forest and Fire (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1891), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tom's Boy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1900), by Evelyn Whitaker, illust. by Percy Tarrant (page images at Google; US access only)
• We and the World: A Book for Boys, by Juliana Horatia Ewing
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text
• The White Crystals: Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1904), by Howard Roger Garis, illust. by Bertha Corson Day Bates (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wood Magic: A Fable (2 volumes; London et al: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., 1881), by Richard Jefferies
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Wood Magic: A Fable (London et al: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907), by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Dave Porter and His Rivals: or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1930), by Edward Stratemeyer, illust. by John Goss (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• William -- The Fourth (London: G. Newnes, c1924), by Richmal Crompton, illust. by Thomas Henry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• William Again (London: G. Newnes, c1923), by Richmal Crompton, illust. by Thomas Henry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• No Man's Island (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921), by Herbert Strang, illust. by C. E. Brock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Adventure of Walter and the Rabbits: A Story for Children (New York: Ullman Mfg. Co., 1908), by Milton Goldsmith, illust. by H. Harmony (page images with translations at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Boat Club: or, The Bunkers of Rippleton (new edition, revised and enlarged; New York: The Mershon Co., c1896), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Channings, by Mrs. Henry Wood (Gutenberg text)
• The Cruise of the Firefly (Chicago et al.: J. C. Winston Co., c1906), by Edward Sylvester Ellis and William P. Chipman, illust. by Edwin John Prittie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Helen's Babies, by John Habberton (Gutenberg text)
• Just William, by Richmal Crompton, illust. by Thomas Henry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• More William, by Richmal Crompton, illust. by Thomas Henry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pyxie: A Little Boy of the Pines (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), by Ethel Calvert Phillips, illust. by Maginel Wright Barney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924), by Anne Carroll Moore, illust. by Jay Van Everen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Radio Detectives in the Jungle (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1922), by A. Hyatt Verrill
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Bikey the Skicycle, and the Other Tales of Jimmieboy (New York: Riggs Pub. Co., 1902), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Peter Newell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., c1912), by Edward Sylvester Ellis, illust. by Burton Donnel Hughes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Our Trip to Blunderland: or, Grand Excursion to Blundertown and Back (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1877), by J. H. A. Macdonald, illust. by Charles Altamont Doyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tin Box and What It Contained, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)

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