Advanced Reading

The stories in here are for kids who can read pretty well. If you enjoy scary books, then check out the ghost stories.

Resources in this category:

The Adventures of Sydney
http://www.cyberkids.com/cw/mul/sydney/index.html

"The Adventures of Sydney" is an interactive story. You decide where you will go next on each page by picking among the choices. Change the adventure of Sydney and her cat as you read.

A Christmas Carol
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicChri.html

The Charles Dickens classic, in which miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve.

Fifty Famous People
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=baldwin&book=pe...

Part of the Baldwin Project, a volunteer-run online library that provides the texts and illustrations of out-of-print children's books at no charge, this collection is a companion to "Fifty Famous Tales Retold". It is a collection of not strictly factual stories about real people in history, retold by James Baldwin at the beginning of the last century for children ages 6-9.

Ghost Stories for Scouts
http://www.macscouter.com/Stories/GhostStories.html

If you like reading scary stories, then visit this site. Or, if you know a ghost story, send it in so other kids can read it.

Hans Christian Anderson: Fairy Tales and Stories
http://hca.gilead.org.il/

A full-text collection of Anderson's Fairy Tales and Stories. Some are illustrated with the original drawings.

Kids Mysteries: The Case for Kids
http://www.TheCase.com/kids/

"Mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks, and contests."

Little Lord Fauntleroy
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BurLitt.html

This is an online version of the children's classic about an American boy who goes to live with his grandfather in England and becomes heir to a title, estate, and fortune.

A Little Princess
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BurLiPr.html

The classic expanded story of Sara Crewe, a little girl who imagines she's a princess in order to survive hard times at a London boarding school.

Picture Books by Dandi Palmer
http://www.dandi.me.uk/

View the gallery and read picture books for older and younger students at this site. There are also pages you can print out and color yourself!

Pomp: The True Story of the Baby on the Sacagawea Dollar
http://pompstory.home.mindspring.com/index.html

"He's cute, he's sleepy, and he's in your pocket. He's Pomp, the napping little baby on the new Sacagawea dollar coin." Read about Pomp's amazing life in six chapters.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/WigRebe.html

The classic story of ten-year-old Rebecca Randall who leaves Sunnybrook Farm to go and live with her aunts, Miranda and Jane, in Riverboro, Maine in the 19th century.

The Secret Garden
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BurSecr.html

Read the story of Mary Lennox and the wonderful effects of the secret garden she finds by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Short Stories for Kids
http://www.bygosh.com/kidsstories.htm

This is small collection of short stories for you to read (or have read to you). You’ll find Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, The Little Red Hen plus short stories and rhymes by Robert Louis Stevenson.

R.L. Stine's The Nightmare Room
http://www.thenightmareroom.com/

Author R.L. Stine's official website based on his Nightmare Room series. He will take you into a world one step beyond reality, a world where nightmares come true! Check out his exclusive online story, The Dead of Night, with new installments each week and the conclusion on Halloween night. You can also find info on his books, chat in a moderated room, and even send an e-card. Requires Flash plug-in.

Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=baldwin&book=th...

Part of the Baldwin Project, a volunteer-run online library that provides the texts and illustrations of out-of-print children's books at no charge, this collection of thirty stories is for children ages 7 to 9, offering a more advanced vocabulary and extensive plot than the other two books in the series. These not strictly factual tales were retold by James Baldwin at the beginning of the last century.

Through the Looking Glass
http://www.bygosh.com/lookingglass/index.htm

Read the continuing adventures of Alice in Wonderland in this illustrated book online. Read about Alice’s meetings with the Lion and the Unicorn, Humpty-Dumpty and the Garden of Live Flowers. Watch out for the Jabberwocky!

Treasure Island
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/SteTrea.html

Get ready for a swashbuckling tale about pirates and searching for lost treasure.

The Wind in the Willows
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/GraWind.html

Come on a fun adventure on the riverbank and into the woods with Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger! Find this great book online and get to know the crazy characters at the link above.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/wizoz10.html

A hypertext-formatted version of the book that started it all.

World Wide School Library
http://www.worldwideschool.org/

World Wide School is "dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of educational material." The library contains over 2,000 online texts organized by subject, author, title, and genre. Each text is accompanied with helpful notes.