The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit

Shovels, by Tiesse, released into the public domain

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1  The Council of Ways and Means

2  Digging for Treasure

3  Being Detectives

4  Good Hunting

5  The Poet and the Editor

6  Noel’s Princess

7  Being Bandits

8  Being Editors

9  The G. B.

10  Lord Tottenham

11  Castilian Amoroso

12  The Nobleness of Oswald

13  The Robber and the Burglar

14  The Divining Rod

15  ‘Lo, the Poor Indian!

16  The End of the Treasure Seeking

The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

Train Tracks at Saint Lazare Station by Claude Monet
Train Tracks at Saint Lazare Station by Claude Monet

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The Gare Saint-Lazare, Arrival of a Train by Claude Monet
The Gare Saint-Lazare, Arrival of a Train by Claude Monet

Chapter 1  The Beginning of Things

Chapter 2  Peter’s Coal Mine

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn An Old Man in Red
An Old Man in Red by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Chapter 3  The Old Gentleman

Chapter 4  The Engine Burglar

Chapter 5  Prisoners and Captives

Vienna Northwest station, 1875
Vienna Northwest station, 1875

Chapter 6 Saviours of the Train

Chapter 7  For Valour

Chapter 8  The Amateur Firemen

Pleuer Ausfahrender Zug, 1902
Departing Train by Pleuer, 1902

Chapter 9  The Pride of Perks

Chapter 10  The Terrible Secret

Chapter 11  The Hound in the Red Jersey

Chapter 12  What Bobbie Brought Home

Chapter 13  The Hound’s Grandfather

Chapter 14  The End

The Wouldbegoods, Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit

Artist's children portrait by Jan Matejko

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1 The Jungle

2 The Wouldbegoods

3  Bill’s Tombstone

4  The  Tower of  Mystery

Garden of the artist at Vethueil by Monet
Garden of the artist at Vethueil by Monet

5  The Waterworks

6  The Circus

7  Being Beavers; or, The Young Explorers (Arctic or Otherwise)

Vetheuil in Winter by Monet
Vetheuil in Winter by Monet

8  The High-Born Babe

9  Hunting the Fox

10  The Sale of Antiquities


Red Poppy Field at Giverny by Monet
Red Poppy Field at Giverny by Monet

11  The Benevolent Bar

12 The Canterbury Pilgrims

13  The Dragon’s Teeth; or, Army Seed

14  Albert’s Uncle’s Grandmother; or, The Long-Lost

The Phoenix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit

Fireworks Ignis Brunensis Macedos Pirotecnia 2007, photo by Jiri Nedorost, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license

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1  The Egg

2  The Topless Tower

3  The Queen Cook

Disgruntled Cook

4  Two Bazaars

5  The Temple

6  Doing Good

7  Mews from Persia

8  The Cats, the Cow and the Burglar

Julius Adam die einquartierung

9  The Burglar’s Bride

10  The Hole in the Carpet

11  The Beginning of the End

12  The End of the End

Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit

Coins lot, photo by Ashishbhatnagar72, photo released into the public domain by copyright holder.

Summary: This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. The children’s wishes send them on adventure after adventure, but rarely turn out as expected. (Summary by Kara)

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Chapter 1: Beautiful As the Day

Chapter 2: Golden Guineas

Chapter 3: Being Wanted

Chapter 4: Wings

Chapter 5: No Wings

The Siege of a Castle, by George Kruger Gray, 1927

Chapter 6: A Castle and No Dinner

Chapter 7: A Siege and Bed

Chapter 8: Bigger Than the Baker’s Boy

Chapter 9: Grown Up

Matô-Tope 1, chief Mandan, by Karl Bodmer

Chapter 10: Scalps

Chapter 11:The Last Wish