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Old 09-03-2013, 11:35 AM   #16
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In my experience, classics are a tough sell to a kid.
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If I were you, I would look into a library with a large ebook program that offers an out-of-state card, such as Philadelphia Free Library. You have to pay for the card but it might be well worth it to you. Do a search on here to find out what your choices are. Just be prepared for long hold times. My library has tons of Magic Tree House books in ebook format, for example. Also tons of Richard Riordan books.

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Old 09-03-2013, 01:38 PM   #17
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Old 09-05-2013, 08:58 AM   #18
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Reading another thread here there are always the Jules Verne books.... (again check out the MobileRead Library for them).
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Old 09-07-2013, 10:35 PM   #19
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a better Gutenberg link?
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Children's_Literature_(Bookshelf)
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Old 09-07-2013, 10:48 PM   #20
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Amazon does seem to have a lot of free kids kindle books, although the list is interspersed with expensive ones as well.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=...rnid=618072011
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Amazon does seem to have a lot of free kids kindle books, although the list is interspersed with expensive ones as well.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=...rnid=618072011
Thanks for this... but when I go in to Kindle->Ebooks->Children->9-12yrs->sort by price there is only around 20 or so. Seems to be a lot more free books for adults then kinds.
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Amazon has bizarre searches these days.

The list seems to be sorted by the lowest available price but displays some random other price on the classics at least.

If you click on a book that says see all. at the bottom
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The Call of the Wild (Puffin Classics) by Jack London and Melvin Burgess (Mar 6, 2008)


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Price
New
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Kindle Edition Auto-delivered wirelessly $1.71
Hardcover Order in the next 22 hours to get it by Tuesday, Sep 10.
Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping.
$5.99 $5.39 $3.79 $0.01 $49.98

Other Formats: Kindle Edition; Paperback; Mass Market Paperback; Audio CD ; See All.
You can see a kindle edition for 0.00
No idea how good these are or how useful this is but if you type see all. (with the period you can quickly find the books that are on each page.

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Free e-books for a young boy that shouldn't be too hard to read:

Conan books: The whole list is here:

Robert E. Howard Conan stories

Two very good short stories to start him on are:

The Tower of the Elephant

Red Nails

Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner. Great story about smugglers. Kinda old and written in a faux 18th Century style, but I don't think it's that hard to read:

Moonfleet


Edgar Rice Burroghs stuff:

John Carter Warlord of Mars (7 books in 1)

The Land that Time Forgot (Trilogy)

Complete Sherlock Holmes

As I think of more, I'll post them.
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Old 09-10-2013, 04:41 PM   #24
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A fair selection at Feedbooks
http://www.feedbooks.com/userbooks/t...000000&lang=en

http://www.feedbooks.com/books/searc...query=children
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I agree both MR and Feedbooks have some good books to offer. A good many of those at Feedbooks are both PD and free. And of course those right here at MR are always PD and free of charge.
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In my experience, classics are a tough sell to a kid. Amazon offers kids books daily in the $1.99 range; once in a while you can find the high-profile series that kids love. You just have to keep looking every day. I never see those kinds of books going for free.
I don't know about that, I loved 'em as a kid. I read Treasure Island, Jules Verne books, old 1920 and 30s boys series books my father owned, must have read Swiss Family Robinson dozens of times. Penrod was another I liked that is now public domain.

Summers, I read a bunch of stories about the Greek gods, including the Odyssey, because my grandmother has this whole set of Greek mythology.

And then there was stuff like Kjelgaard's "Big Red", which I think can be found here on MR, or at least it was available.

Also, just because a library doesn't have kids ebooks, is no reason to count it out, paper books are fine for reading.
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He may like The Battle for Duncragglin by Andrew H. Vanderwal.
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