Young Readers stories

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Free

Stories

21 stories

Chapters

205

Twenty-one stories that strip the reader of any say over their own life — a child, an animal, a thing that is not alive yet. A horse passed hand to hand from a meadow to a London cab rank, a bungalow cholera empties leaving one child alive inside, an axe already raised over a block of pine before it has a name, a spinning-wheel tower and a great-great-grandmother nobody else in the castle admits exists.

TeenBlack BeautyYou are the horse. Twenty-five chapters pass you through the hands of everyone who owns you, from a meadow to a London cab rank.Complete · 25 chaptersTeenThe Wind in the WillowsSpring comes through the ceiling of an underground house in the middle of spring-cleaning, and you leave the whitewash where it falls.Complete · 21 chaptersTeenThe Secret GardenCholera empties a bungalow in India and leaves one child alive inside it, nobody's favourite and nobody's responsibility.Complete · 20 chaptersTeenA Little PrincessA captain leaves his daughter at a London boarding school and sails back to India.Complete · 19 chaptersTeenThe Railway ChildrenComplete · 18 chaptersTeenAlice's Adventures in WonderlandA bored afternoon on a riverbank, an unread book with no pictures in it, and a rabbit that checks its watch.Complete · 12 chaptersTeenAt the Back of the North WindOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenFive Children and ItOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenHarding's LuckOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenHeidiYou are Heidi, climbing the Alm behind an aunt with a train to catch.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenLittle Lord FauntleroyOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenPinocchioYou play a block of pine on a carpenter's bench, awake before anyone has given you a name, with an axe already raised above you.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Enchanted CastleOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Fir TreeA little fir at the forest edge wants nothing but to be tall - and every wish it is granted arrives too late to be enjoyed.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Magic CityYou are Philip, left at the Grange with Lucy after Helen, who raised you, starts a life of her own.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Phoenix and the CarpetOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Princess and CurdieYou play Curdie, a year after defeating the goblins, careless enough now to shoot a white pigeon out of habit.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Princess and the GoblinYou play Princess Irene, who finds a spinning-wheel tower and a great-great-grandmother nobody else in the castle admits exists.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Sea FairiesYou are Trot, rowing Cap'n Bill's boat into a sea cave he swears no one has entered and lived to describe.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Story of the AmuletOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenWet MagicYou play Francis, exploring the tidal rocks at Beachfield with your sister Mavis when a voice under the water begs to be saved from captivity.Ongoing · 6 chapters

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