Nicholas is the assistant to Mr. Wackford Squeers, an ignorant, sordid, and brutal Yorkshire schoolmaster. Contains much humor as well as pathos.
Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens.
Tells how a poor-house waif was trained in London’s schools of crime.
On the Trail of Washington. By Frederick Trevor Hill.
The story of George Washington, first as a child, then in his surveying expeditions, and later fighting with and commanding troops in the American Revolution.
Oregon Trail, The. By Francis Parkman.
Vivid description of the life of the Indians of the plains in the days of our forefathers.
Pickett’s Gap. By Homer Greene.
The story of a railroad fight for the control of a mountain pass.
Prodigious Hickey, The. By Owen Johnson.