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Coming of Age

The Book of Khalid

You play Shakib, a young poet leaving Baalbek at night with your friend Khalid, a rug of unsold poems on your shoulder and no passports between you.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Literary Drama

The Bostonians

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Adventure

The Boy Knight

At fifteen, you watched armed retainers from surrounding holdings ride toward Earl Walter's castle in unusual numbers.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Social Protest

The Boy Who Sailed with Blake

Ben hauled in a mackerel line while Lancelot Kerridge held the helm and Dick Harvey kept an oar out to windward.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Bravest of the Brave

Mayor Richard Anthony caught sixteen-year-old Jack speaking with fourteen-year-old Alice at the garden gate after forbidding further contact.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Brethren

Rosamund's curiosity about her Syrian ancestry unsettles her twin cousins on a quiet Essex coast.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Gothic

The Bride of Lammermoor

On the morning after Lord Ravenswood's funeral, you sat in the old castle library while the legal officer requested an urgent hearing.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Sci-Fi & Gaming

The British Barbarians

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Literary Drama

The Brothers Karamazov

The Karamazovs arrive at a monastery to have an ailing elder settle what a father owes his eldest son.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Adventure

The Buffalo Runners

For two days and a night, you and Fergus McKay forced a straight line through a prairie blizzard.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Caged Lion

In the bleak spring of 1421, Sir David Drummond prayed beside Glenuskie's hall fire for a lawless Scotland, his absent son, and the captive King.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Mystery

The Camera Fiend

You are a schoolboy under treatment for asthma, stranded in London when your hosts fail to answer and the last train leaves without you.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Comedy

The Captain's Toll-Gate

Olive Asher asks a visitor for a seven-cent toll and gets an inspection of her manners instead.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Comedy

The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine

Two days beyond Honolulu, the steamer carrying you toward Yokohama collided at night with an eastbound vessel that vanished in fog.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Gothic

The Castle of Otranto

You are the bride. The bells have rung over Otranto since morning, and the groom, Matilda's feverish brother Conrad, has not left his room.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Adventure

The Cat of Bubastes

The Rebu capital emptied its fighting men as a much larger Egyptian force approached after earlier invasions had failed.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Coming of Age

The Channings

Helstonleigh watched the assize procession while cathedral scholars prepared for the service.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Literary Drama

The Chaplet of Pearls

During the celebrations for the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis, King Henri II arranged one more reconciliation beneath the portal of Notre-Dame.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Mystery

The Chase of the Golden Plate

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Coming of Age

The Children of the King

You stood beside ten-year-old Bastianello while moonlight and distant lightning filled the still September night outside.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Children of the New Forest

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Coming of Age

The Children of Wilton Chase

Punished for disobedience, you were forbidden by Miss Nelson to ride to the station when Basil and Eric came home.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Coming of Age

The Children's Pilgrimage

On a cold Sunday evening, you sat outside the lodging with eight-year-old Maurice pressed against your shoulder.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Mystery

The Circular Staircase

A spinster of settled habits takes a country house for the summer, and by the second night a man has been shot at the foot of the stairs.

Complete · 23 chapters · Teen