Young Readers stories
Young and overlooked protagonists explore places whose rules were made by somebody else.
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A horse learns that kindness cannot be taken for granted. Mary Lennox leaves an emptied household for a Yorkshire manor full of closed doors. A block of wood speaks before its maker has carved a face. Curiosity, mistakes and unexpected friendships help these characters discover how to act within a much larger world.
At the Back of the North WindYou are Diamond, a coachman's son whose loft wall pinches a lock of North Wind's hair.Ongoing · 38 chapters · About 1 hr 50 min published so farBy netfable official
The Adventures of Tom SawyerTom Sawyer turns a Saturday punishment into a bargain the other boys can hardly resist.Ongoing · 35 chapters · About 1 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official
PinocchioYou 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 · 28 chapters · About 1 hr 30 min published so farBy netfable official
Black 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 chapters · About 1 hr 40 min totalBy netfable official
HeidiYou are Heidi, climbing the Alm behind an aunt with a train to catch.Ongoing · 23 chapters · About 1 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official
The 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 chapters · About 1 hr 10 min totalBy netfable official
The Secret GardenCholera empties a bungalow in India and leaves one child alive inside it, nobody's favourite and nobody's responsibility.Complete · 20 chapters · About 1 hr 15 min totalBy netfable official
A Little PrincessA captain leaves his daughter at a London boarding school and sails back to India.Complete · 19 chapters · About 1 hr 10 min totalBy netfable official
The Railway ChildrenThree children are moved out of a comfortable London villa into a cold house beside a railway line, and nobody explains why Father did not come with them.Complete · 18 chapters · About 1 hr 15 min totalBy netfable official
Alice'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 chapters · About 53 min totalBy netfable official
Five Children and ItYou and your brothers and sister dig up a furred, bad-tempered creature in the gravel pit — the Psammead — who grants exactly one wish a day and lets every result vanish at sunset.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official
Harding's LuckLame and living with an unkind aunt, Dickie redeems his dead father's silver rattle from a pawnbroker and finds it matches a broken seal in the shop, cut with the same crest.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official
Little Lord FauntleroyYou are Cedric Errol, at home behind the counter of Mr Hobbs's New York grocery, debating lords and republics with your friend Dick, when a lawyer named Havisham arrives at your mother's door with sealed papers.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official
The Enchanted CastleYou spend the holidays exploring Yalding Castle with Gerald and Jimmy and find a girl asleep among the garden statues, claiming to be an enchanted princess under a hundred-year spell.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official
The 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 chapters · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official
The Magic CityYou are Philip, left at the Grange with Lucy after Helen, who raised you, starts a life of her own.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official
The Phoenix and the CarpetRobert's Guy Fawkes fireworks set the nursery carpet alight, and a golden egg rolls out of it and into the fire before anyone can decide whose fault that is.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official
The Princess and CurdieYou play Curdie, a year after defeating the goblins, careless enough now to shoot a white pigeon out of habit.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official
The 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 chapters · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official
The 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 chapters · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official
