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Young Readers
Stories of childhood, exploration, resilience and imaginative adventure represented across the current public-domain collection.
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This catalogue brings together 94 public-domain works of children's and young adult fiction from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Rather than a simple list, the collection is organized around four overlapping themes: Young Readers, School Stories, Children's Adventures, and Fairy Moral Tales. These categories highlight shared settings, character types, and plot structures, making it easy to move between related books. For example, a school story might blend in mystery, while an adventure tale can include technical education. The catalogue also provides original editorial notes that discuss narrative techniques, themes, and historical context, guiding a first reading without replacing the source texts.
94 public-domain works100 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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School Stories
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Childrens Adventures
Stories of childhood, exploration, resilience and imaginative adventure represented across the current public-domain collection.
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Fairy Moral Tales
Fairy tales, legends, myths and traditional narratives drawn from different literary and cultural settings.
Children’s — Editor’s Selection
Newly Catalogued by NIJAA
Little Frankie and His Cousin — ...
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Bert Wilson at Panama — Reading ...
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Dorothy on a House Boat — Inside...
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The Third Little Pet Book, with ...
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Dorothy at Oak Knowe — Context a...
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Frontier Boys in the South Seas ...
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NIJAA Catalogue manages the overall structure of the online library, which holds 94 books and works by 100 authors, spread across 4 categories. Catalogue organization supports the reliability of the collections.
