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Carolyn Wells	Patty's Suitors	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5631/pg5631-images.html	gutenberg	1,914	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	When the young people returned to the ballroom, it presented a decidedly changed appearance. Instead of an interior scene, it was a winter landscape. The floor was covered with snow-white canvas, not laid on smoothly, but rumpled over bumps and hillocks, like a real snow field. The numerous palms and evergreens that ha...	174	179	1	traveller	11	11	6	-0.340259	0.464009	81.7	5.95	7.37	8	0.12102	0.11952	0.457534	12.097816	6.55
Carolyn Wells	Two Little Women on a Holiday	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5893/pg5893-images.html	gutenberg	1,917	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	All through dinner time, Mrs. Fayre was somewhat silent, her eyes resting on Dolly with a wistful, uncertain expression. She wanted to give the child the pleasure she craved, but she had hard work to bring herself to the point of overcoming her own objections. At last, however, when the meal was nearly over, she smiled...	164	184	0	null	15	15	6	-0.315372	0.480805	80.26	4.86	4.16	7	0.04921	0.04921	0.46251	22.550179	6.25
Carolyn Wells	Patty Blossom	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20945/pg20945-images.html	gutenberg	1,917	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	As Roger had predicted, the snow departed as quickly as it came, and two days after their sleigh ride there was scarcely a vestige of white on the ground. Tennis was again possible and a great game was in progress on the court at Pine Laurel. Patty and Roger were playing against Elise and Sam Blaney, and the pairs were...	162	180	0	null	11	11	5	-0.580118	0.476676	79.04	6.03	5.81	9	0.10172	0.09724	0.369259	18.125279	7.31
CHARLES KINGSLEY	THE WATER-BABIES A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25564/25564-h/25564-h.htm	gutenberg	1,863	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	3	Mr. Grimes was to come up next morning to Sir John Harthover's, at the Place, for his old chimney-sweep was gone to prison, and the chimneys wanted sweeping. And so he rode away, not giving Tom time to ask what the sweep had gone to prison for, which was a matter of interest to Tom, as he had been in prison once or twi...	159	160	0	null	3	3	1	-1.785965	0.526599	44.77	20.51	24.87	12	0.07491	0.08856	0.390759	10.95946	8.56
Charles Kingsley	HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE UNKNOWN SEA	The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/677/677-h/677-h.htm#page127	gutenberg	1,889	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	And outside before the palace a great garden was walled round, filled full of stately fruit-trees, gray olives and sweet figs, and pomegranates, pears, and apples, which bore the whole year round. For the rich south-west wind fed them, till pear grew ripe on pear, fig on fig, and grape on grape, all the winter and the ...	163	164	1	sceptre	5	5	2	-1.054013	0.450007	68.07	12.06	15.47	8	0.06356	0.08798	0.389226	3.19596	7
Charles Madison Curry Erle Elsworth Clippinger	The Three Little Bears	Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25545/25545-h/25545-h.htm#Page_64	gutenberg	1,920	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	Once upon a time there were Three Bears who lived together in a house of their own in a wood. One of them was a Little, Small, Wee Bear; and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and the other was a Great, Huge Bear. They had each a pot for their porridge; a little pot for the Little, Small, Wee Bear; and a middle-sized pot for...	147	147	0	null	5	5	1	0.247197	0.510845	80.94	9.47	10.76	5	0.3537	0.36885	0.301666	28.990105	1.71
Clair W. Hayes	The Boy Allies On the Firing Line Or, Twelve Days Battle Along the Marne	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12870/12870-h/12870-h.htm	gutenberg	1,915	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Hal and Chester found ample time to take an inventory of the general's car. It was a huge machine, and besides being fitted up luxuriously was also furnished as an office, that the general might still be at work while he hurried from one part of the field to another when events demanded his immediate presence. Even now...	161	166	0	null	7	7	3	-0.861809	0.480936	59.67	10.72	11.45	11	0.15617	0.16523	0.419842	12.766583	8.09
Clair W. Hayes	The Boy Allies in Great Peril	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12682/pg12682-images.html	gutenberg	1,916	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	3	Hal Paine and Chester Crawford were typical American boys. With the former's mother, they had been in Berlin when the great European conflagration broke out and had been stranded there. Mrs. Paine had been able to get out of the country, but Hal and Chester were left behind. In company with Major Raoul Derevaux, a Fren...	171	174	0	null	8	8	3	-1.759061	0.476507	60.87	10.2	11.88	12	0.19484	0.18656	0.484475	14.130141	9.23
Clair W. Hayes	The Boy Allies At Verdun	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13020/pg13020-images.html	gutenberg	1,917	Lit	start	PD	PG	2	2	On the twenty-second of February, 1916, an automobile sped northward along the French battle line that for almost two years had held back the armies of the German emperor, strive as they would to win their way farther into the heart of France. For months the opposing forces had battled to a draw from the North Sea to t...	170	173	0	null	7	8	3	-0.952325	0.498116	68.79	9.8	11.03	11	0.11652	0.12905	0.430107	10.216473	7.51
Claude A. Labelle	The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25514/25514-h/25514-h.htm	gutenberg	1,922	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The boys left the capitol and made their way down the long hill to the main business part of the town. As they struck onto the main business street, Garry noticed the familiar blue bell sign of the telephone company. "Say, boys, I have an idea. Let's stop in here and put in long distance calls and say hello to our folk...	160	169	0	null	11	10	4	-0.371641	0.46371	79.22	6.26	7.33	9	0.07015	0.07326	0.37727	16.497078	6.96
Cornelius Mathews	THE CELESTIAL SISTERS	The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22248/22248-h/22248-h.htm#Page_7	gutenberg	1,869	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	One day he had gone beyond any point which he had ever before visited. He traveled through an open wood, which enabled him to see a great distance. At length he beheld a light breaking through the foliage of the distant trees, which made him sure that he was on the borders of a prairie. It was a wide plain, covered wit...	191	192	0	null	8	8	2	-1.238432	0.4659	71.88	9.2	10.58	9	0.07756	0.07593	0.454556	15.388692	6.88
Cyrus Townsend Brady	For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20791/pg20791-images.html	gutenberg	1,908	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	It was believed by the principal men of Virginia that Talbot's sympathies were with the revolted colonies; but the influence of his mother, to whom he had been accustomed to defer, had hitherto proved sufficient to prevent him from openly declaring himself. His visit to England, and the delightful reception he had met ...	186	187	0	null	5	5	1	-3.081337	0.55326	36.72	17.38	20.1	17	0.29355	0.29029	0.554392	7.548726	10.07
Cyrus Townsend Brady	South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20910/20910-h/20910-h.htm	gutenberg	1,910	Info	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	This Pedrarias was seventy-two years old. He was of good birth and rich, and was the father of a large and interesting family, which he prudently left behind him in Spain. His wife, however, insisted on going with him to the New World. Whether or not this was a proof of wifely devotion—and if it was, it is the only thi...	158	159	0	null	9	9	2	-2.145248	0.518351	66.89	8.4	7.66	12	0.13492	0.15554	0.399179	15.240619	7.65
Cyrus Townsend Brady	The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20515/20515-h/20515-h.htm	gutenberg	1,915	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The Emperor walked nervously up and down the long, low-ceiled apartment, the common room of the public inn at Nogent. Grouped around a long table in the center of the room several secretaries were busy with orders, reports and dispatches. At one end stood a group of officers of high rank in rich uniforms whose brillian...	189	189	0	null	7	7	1	-1.400318	0.494799	59.99	11.67	13.88	13	0.24022	0.23156	0.508509	7.342695	8.13
Cyrus Townsend Brady	A Little Book for Christmas	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15343/15343-h/15343-h.htm	gutenberg	1,917	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The clock in a nearby church struck the hour of two. The areaway was dark. No one was abroad. He plunged down the steps, opened the window and disappeared. No man could move more noiselessly than he. In the still night he knew how the slightest sounds are magnified. He had made none as he groped his way through the bac...	198	199	0	null	15	16	2	-0.495299	0.471694	79.01	5.53	5.6	9	0.09305	0.07234	0.490699	21.649066	6.52
Dorothy Canfield	Understood Betsy	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5347/5347-h/5347-h.htm	gutenberg	1,916	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Aunt Abigail was gone, Eleanor was gone. The room was quite empty except for the bright sunshine pouring in through the small-paned windows. Elizabeth Ann stretched and yawned and looked about her. What funny wall-paper it was—so old-fashioned looking! The picture was of a blue river and a brown mill, with green willow...	181	183	0	null	12	14	1	0.245806	0.491793	84.67	5.3	5.58	7	0.05401	0.05716	0.398133	19.218527	5.59
E. Nesbit	The Book of Dragons	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23661/23661-h/23661-h.htm#Page_1	gutenberg	1,899	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	So off went Lionel to be made a King. He had never expected to be a King any more than you have, so it was all quite new to him—so new that he had never even thought of it. And as the coach went through the town he had to bite his tongue to be quite sure it was real, because if his tongue was real it showed he wasn't d...	171	175	0	null	6	6	2	-0.188186	0.481518	70.02	10.61	12.46	9	0.0392	0.04316	0.389894	14.975224	6.07
E. Nesbit	The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/794/794-h/794-h.htm	gutenberg	1,901	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	Her name was Simpkins, and her cottage was just beyond the churchyard, on the other side from our house. On the different military occasions which I have remarked upon this widow woman stood at her garden gate and looked on. And after the cheering she rubbed her eyes with her apron. Alice noticed this slight but signif...	177	179	0	null	12	12	3	-1.286039	0.470564	82.57	5.47	5.37	7	-0.00689	0.01017	0.396667	22.622535	6.66
E. Nesbit	Five Children and It	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/778/pg778-images.html	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The children had explored the gardens and the outhouses thoroughly before they were caught and cleaned for tea, and they saw quite well that they were certain to be happy at the White House. They thought so from the first moment, but when they found the back of the house covered with jasmine, and in white flower, and s...	177	177	0	null	2	2	1	-0.617733	0.496645	13.77	33.33	42.15	12	0.11038	0.12616	0.406758	5.47406	9.45
E. Nesbit	The Story of the Amulet	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/837/837-h/837-h.htm	gutenberg	1,906	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	It was a wet day, so none of the plans for seeing all the sights of London that can be seen for nothing could be carried out. Everyone had been thinking all the morning about the wonderful adventures of the day before, when Jane had held up the charm and it had turned into an arch, through which they had walked straigh...	180	185	0	null	6	7	2	-1.126248	0.477028	62.64	12.02	13.83	12	0.11304	0.1145	0.483832	17.279894	7.14
E. Nesbit	The Railway Children	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1874/1874-h/1874-h.htm#link2HCH0001	gutenberg	1,906	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	Father had been away in the country for three or four days. All Peter's hopes for the curing of his afflicted Engine were now fixed on his Father, for Father was most wonderfully clever with his fingers. He could mend all sorts of things. He had often acted as veterinary surgeon to the wooden rocking-horse; once he had...	176	182	0	null	8	8	2	-1.009999	0.496148	70.26	9.05	9.67	9	0.08469	0.08032	0.430896	16.005069	6.59
E. Nesbit	The Magic City	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20606/20606-h/20606-h.htm#Page_1	gutenberg	1,910	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Then the man took off his hat and walked away, and Philip and his sister went home. She seemed different, somehow, and he was sent to bed a little earlier than usual, but he could not go to sleep for a long time, because he heard the front-door bell ring and afterwards a man's voice and Helen's going on and on in the l...	155	157	1	grey	6	6	1	0.281178	0.510595	78.31	8.92	9.98	7	-0.02749	0.01397	0.255879	16.372347	5.94
Edith Bancroft	Jane Allen: Right Guard	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19015/19015-h/19015-h.htm	gutenberg	1,918	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Thanksgiving came and went with the usual round of college gaieties. Four days being too short a holiday to permit the majority of the Wellington girls going home, they remained at college and did much celebrating. On Thanksgiving Day the first in the series of three basket-ball games was played between the sophomores ...	165	168	0	null	10	10	2	-0.267516	0.506753	69.65	7.77	8.66	10	0.21218	0.21694	0.433126	12.610169	7.73
Edith Van Dyne	The Flying Girl	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53386/53386-h/53386-h.htm	gutenberg	1,911	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	It was no indifferent thing this brave girl attempted. Until now her acquaintance with an aeroplane had been wholly theoretical; it was her first flight; yet so thoroughly did she understand every part of her air vehicle—what it was for and how to use it—that she had implicit confidence in herself and in her machine. N...	147	148	1	aeroplane	6	7	1	-1.020526	0.482688	54.24	11.02	11.51	13	0.20722	0.23664	0.426193	11.935218	7.96
Edith van Dyne	Mary Louise	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5660/pg5660-images.html	gutenberg	2,002	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Mary Louise hid herself in the drawing-room, where she could watch the closed door of the library opposite. At times she trembled with an unknown dread; again, she told herself that no harm could possibly befall her dear, good Gran'pa Jim or her faithful, loving mother. Yet why were they closeted in the library so long...	154	159	0	null	9	9	3	-0.869774	0.458918	67.89	8.12	9.37	10	0.088	0.09282	0.440631	17.661223	7.52
Edmund Leamy	THE ENCHANTED CAVE	The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22168/22168-h/22168-h.htm#h2H_4_0007	gutenberg	1,911	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	At that moment the queen came out through the palace door, and the prince was so dazzled by her beauty, that only for the golden bracelet he wore upon his right arm, under the sleeve of his silken tunic, he might almost have forgotten the Princess Ailinn. This bracelet was made by the dwarfs who dwell in the heart of t...	182	182	0	null	3	3	1	0.278203	0.484045	32.3	23.82	28.56	12	0.20273	0.21673	0.421517	19.930448	7.86
Edward Sylvester Ellis	The Boy Patriot	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21125/21125-h/21125-h.htm	gutenberg	1,863	Lit	start	PD	PG	2	1.5	Were you ever on the coast of Maine? If so, you know how the rocky shores stretch out now and then clear into the ocean, and fret the salt waves till they are all in a foam. Old Ocean is not to be so set at defiance and have his rightful territory wrung from him, without taking his revenge after his own fashion. Far up...	196	197	1	axe	8	8	2	-1.56622	0.485318	76.16	8.82	10.13	8	0.19159	0.17276	0.493562	11.141175	6.85
Edward Sylvester Ellis	The Huge Hunter Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7506/7506-h/7506-h.htm	gutenberg	1,868	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	If nature afflicts in one direction she frequently makes amends in another direction, and this dwarf, small as he was, was gifted with a most wonderful mind. His mechanical ingenuity bordered on the marvelous. When he went to school, he was a general favorite with teachers and pupils. The former loved him for his sweet...	161	162	0	null	6	6	2	-2.386485	0.526079	52.1	12.74	14.67	13	0.11372	0.15038	0.393743	8.849771	8.28
Edward Sylvester Ellis	Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21626/21626-h/21626-h.htm	gutenberg	1,887	Lit	start	PD	PG	2	1.5	One beautiful misummer night in 18— a large, heavily laden steamer was making her way swiftly up the Pacific coast, in the direction of San Francisco. She was opposite the California shore, only a day's sail distant from the City of the Golden Gate, and many of the passengers had already begun making preparations for l...	169	172	0	null	6	6	3	-1.483887	0.476219	49.85	13.43	14.85	14	0.21512	0.22333	0.493512	10.509467	8.64
Edward Sylvester Ellis	Through Forest and Fire: Wild-Woods Series No. 1	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16472/16472-h/16472-h.htm	gutenberg	1,891	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	When Nick Ribsam set out to find his missing sister Nellie, he made the search as thorough as possible. The first house at which he stopped was that of Mr. Marston, which, it will be remembered, was only a short distance away from his own home. There, to his disappointment, he learned that their little girl had not bee...	155	157	0	null	7	7	3	0.633139	0.51578	68.76	9.24	10.45	9	0.02085	0.04332	0.34529	20.632798	7.36
Edward Sylvester Ellis	LOST IN A BLIZZARD	The Jungle Fugitives and Others	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16805/16805-h/16805-h.htm#link2H_4_0032	gutenberg	1,903	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	My hope lay in Jack's promise that he would keep a bright light burning in the upper story to guide me on my course. On a clear night this light was visible from the village, but somehow or other I failed to take into account the state of the weather. The air was full of eddying flakes, which would render the headlight...	147	154	0	null	8	8	3	-0.596383	0.46728	75.51	7.35	7.1	8	0.06473	0.10579	0.327351	16.607813	5.94
Edward Sylvester Ellis	THE WRITING FOUND IN A BOTTLE	The Jungle Fugitives and Others	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16805/16805-h/16805-h.htm#link2H_4_0036	gutenberg	1,903	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	We three reached the old poplar the next evening between ten and eleven o'clock. Arthur had escaped inquiry by slipping out of his bedroom window after bidding his parents good-night; and, inasmuch as the lantern which I carried was not lit until we arrived at the tree, we were confident of escaping attention. Still I ...	140	141	0	null	6	6	2	-1.394485	0.474055	57.1	11.17	12.55	11	0.09479	0.13946	0.337838	9.028936	7.48
Edward Sylvester Ellis	THAT HORNET'S NEST	The Jungle Fugitives and Others	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16805/16805-h/16805-h.htm#link2H_4_0037	gutenberg	1,903	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	But, somehow or other, Mr. Lathrop was different from the teachers that had preceded him. He never spoke angrily or shouted, and his first act on entering the schoolroom was to break up the long tough hickory "gad" lying on his desk and to fling it out of the window. The next thing he did, after calling the school to o...	172	175	0	null	6	6	2	-0.146083	0.50331	65.09	11.39	12.7	11	0.10669	0.12358	0.427025	13.845499	7.25
Edward Sylvester Ellis	A FOOL OR A GENIUS	The Jungle Fugitives and Others	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16805/16805-h/16805-h.htm#link2H_4_0042	gutenberg	1,903	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The big, spacious structure was a favorite place for spending their leisure hours. The hard, seedy floor, with the arching rafters overhead could not be improved for their purpose. The shingles were so far aloft that the shade within was cool on sultry summer days, and it was the pleasantest kind of music to hear the r...	187	188	0	null	8	8	2	-0.803768	0.476008	72.28	9.02	10.9	8	0.19033	0.1954	0.449743	8.710863	6.9
Edward Sylvester Ellis	The Story of Red Feather: A Tale of the American Frontier	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24097/24097-h/24097-h.htm	gutenberg	1,908	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	It was quite early in the forenoon, Melville having made an early start from the border-town of Barwell, and he was well on his way to his home, which lay ten miles to the south. "Dot," as his little sister was called by her friends, had been on a week's visit to her uncle's at the settlement, the agreement all round b...	174	180	0	null	4	5	2	-1.314629	0.449364	52.94	16.87	20.42	12	0.06672	0.07907	0.3531	18.280456	7.35
Edward Sylvester Ellis AKA Lieut. R. H. Jayne	The Cave in the Mountain	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14647/14647-h/14647-h.htm	gutenberg	1,894	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2.5	Before Fred could complete the sentence his foot struck an obstruction and he was precipitated headlong over and down a chasm which had escaped his notice. He fell with such violence that he was knocked senseless. When he recovered he was in darkness, his torch having been extinguished. The smell of the burning resin r...	167	174	0	null	11	10	3	-1.413744	0.49264	72.54	7.34	7.85	9	0.12558	0.1388	0.47638	12.650389	7.28
Edwin L. Sabin	Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20710/20710-h/20710-h.htm	gutenberg	1,912	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	We must have been squatting for an hour and a half, and the sun was down close to the top of the draw, behind us, when Fitzpatrick nudged me with his foot, and nodded. He made the sign of birds flying up and pointed down the trail, below, us; so that I knew somebody was coming, around a turn there. We scarcely breathed...	170	172	0	null	8	8	3	-0.479831	0.495427	84.63	6.23	7.63	7	0.06468	0.074	0.382881	19.18363	6.23
Elsie Spicer Eells	Why the Tiger and the Stag Fear Each Other	Fairy Tales from Brazil	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24714/24714-h/24714-h.htm#VI	gutenberg	1,917	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Now in that same country there lived a large handsome tiger, with sharp, sharp teeth and bright, cruel eyes. One day the tiger said to himself, "I am tired of having no home of my own,—of just living around anywhere! I shall build me a house." Accordingly the tiger searched for a place to build his house. He searched o...	164	170	0	null	11	12	1	0.404633	0.482964	89.05	4.54	4.52	6	0.08916	0.09537	0.358976	25.425362	1.41
Emma Leslie	A Sailor's Lass	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21797/21797-h/21797-h.htm	gutenberg	1,886	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The children wondered that nothing worse than hard words fell to their share, and were somewhat relieved that the next question referred to Bob, and not to their doings. "You say he ain't come home?" said Coomber. "I ain't seen him since he went with you to Fellness. Ain't you just come from there?" said his wife, timi...	159	173	0	null	9	7	5	-0.952123	0.452621	86.47	6.29	7.66	7	0.08267	0.09612	0.327753	16.961274	6.48
Emma Leslie	Kate's Ordeal	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20307/20307-h/20307-h.htm	gutenberg	1,887	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Katie Haydon is going to London, ma'am. Did she tell you on Sunday?" The speaker was Esther Odell, who could think of nothing else but her schoolfellow's good fortune, and, meeting her teacher later in the week, hastened to impart the important news to her. Miss Eldon looked surprised and a little disappointed, for she...	196	203	0	null	8	10	3	-1.053898	0.47051	66.35	10.15	10.78	10	0.12659	0.09759	0.518377	19.741898	7.26
Emma Speed Sampson	Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22532/22532-h/22532-h.htm	gutenberg	1,922	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	When Josie arrived at her destination she went to the one small hotel the village boasted and, engaging the only room in the house with a private bath, she made herself comfortable for the time being. She needed sleep before she could engage in the adventure she was planning. A hotel or boarding house is a good place i...	146	148	0	null	5	6	2	0.022598	0.510077	62.84	10.58	11.64	12	0.07991	0.11091	0.376152	19.394101	7.43
Flora Annie Steel	CHILDE ROWLAND	English Fairy Tales	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17034/17034-h/17034-h.htm#CHILDE_ROWLAND	gutenberg	1,918	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	It was very dark at first, perhaps because the sun had part blinded his eyes; for after a while it became twilight, though where the light came from none could tell, unless through the walls and the roof; for there were neither windows nor candles. But in the gloaming light he could see a long passage of rough arches m...	193	193	0	null	7	7	1	-1.258699	0.45753	71.4	10.22	12.32	8	0.13558	0.14516	0.479786	10.421591	7.04
FLORENCE HOLBROOK	THE STORY OF THE FIRST BUTTERFLIES.	THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22420/22420-h/22420-h.htm#Page_10	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	end	PD	PG	2	1.5	He sang of long summer days and the music of waters beating upon the shore. He sang of the moonlight and the starlight. All the wonders of the night, all the beauty of the morning, were in his song. "Dear southwind," said the Great Spirit "here are some beautiful things for you to bear away with, you to your summer hom...	143	149	0	null	8	9	3	-0.473702	0.481323	82.85	6.24	7.56	6	0.08509	0.13309	0.254421	19.90864	1.66
FLORENCE HOLBROOK	WHY THE SWALLOW'S TAIL IS FORKED.	THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22420/22420-h/22420-h.htm#Page_23	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	start	PD	PG	2	1.5	This is the story of how the swallow's tail came to be forked. One day the Great Spirit asked all the animals that he had made to come to his lodge. Those that could fly came first: the robin, the bluebird, the owl, the butterfly, the wasp, and the firefly. Behind them came the chicken, fluttering its wings and trying ...	149	159	0	null	11	11	4	0.610319	0.530622	91.51	3.93	3.79	7	0.09971	0.13496	0.305023	17.358453	5.36
FLORENCE HOLBROOK	WHY THE WREN FLIES CLOSE TO THE EARTH.	THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22420/22420-h/22420-h.htm#Page_76	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The wren is very small, but she cried even more eagerly than the others, "Let us choose the bird that flies highest," for she said to herself, "They think the owl is wise, but I am wiser than he, and I know which bird can fly highest." Then the birds tried their wings. They flew high, high up above the earth, but one b...	189	204	0	null	11	10	5	-0.04192	0.443631	88.62	5.69	6.22	6	0.03222	0.02112	0.429162	21.456462	1.2
FLORENCE HOLBROOK	THE STORY OF THE FIRST GRASSHOPPER.	THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22420/22420-h/22420-h.htm#Page_83	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	start	PD	PG	2	1.5	In a country that is far away there once lived a young man called Tithonus. He was strong and beautiful. Light of heart and light of foot, he hunted the deer or danced and sang the livelong day. Every one who saw him loved him, but the one that loved him most was a goddess named Aurora. Every goddess had her own work, ...	179	187	0	null	11	11	3	-0.541326	0.456775	85.44	5.43	5.81	8	0.06005	0.06998	0.418792	21.418252	5.76
FLORENCE HOLBROOK	THE STORY OF THE ORIOLE.	THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22420/22420-h/22420-h.htm#Page_86	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	start	PD	PG	2	1.5	The king of the north once said to himself, "I am master of the country of ice and snow, but what is that if I cannot be ruler of the land of sunshine and flowers? I am no king if I fear the king of the south. The northwind shall bear my icy breath. Bird and beast shall quiver and tremble with cold. I myself will call ...	175	179	0	null	10	10	2	-1.051906	0.451918	91.34	4.94	5.61	0	0.08885	0.10397	0.393839	11.800703	5.41
FLORENCE HOLBROOK	WHY THE EVERGREEN TREES NEVER LOSE THEIR LEAVES.	THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22420/22420-h/22420-h.htm#Page_118	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	start	PD	PG	2	1.5	Winter was coming, and the birds had flown far to the south, where the air was warm and they could find berries to eat. One little bird had broken its wing and could not fly with the others. It was alone in the cold world of frost and snow. The forest looked warm, and it made its way to the trees as well as it could, t...	182	199	0	null	13	14	4	0.857927	0.528576	97.81	2.75	2.68	5	0.01359	0.00253	0.409391	25.954982	5.1
FLORENCE HOLBROOK	WHY THE ASPEN LEAVES TREMBLE.	THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22420/22420-h/22420-h.htm#Page_122	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	end	PD	PG	2	2	The reeds did whisper the angry words of the aspen to the queen bee, and she said, "I was going to guide my swarm to the aspen, but now I will drive the tree out of the forest. Come, my bees, come." Then the bees flew by hundreds upon the aspen. They stung every leaf and every twig through and through. The tree was dri...	148	151	0	null	8	8	2	-1.29257	0.46443	87.43	5.69	6.65	0	0.00296	0.03458	0.23929	15.772082	5.73
FLORENCE HOLBROOK	HOW THE BLOSSOMS CAME TO THE HEATHER.	THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22420/22420-h/22420-h.htm#Page_125	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	start	PD	PG	2	1.5	Only a little while after the earth was made, the trees and plants came to live on it. They were happy and contented. The lily was glad because her flowers were white. The rose was glad because her flowers were red. The violet was happy because, however shyly she might hide herself away, some one would come to look for...	156	165	0	null	12	13	2	-0.033183	0.471038	85.8	4.31	4.47	7	0.08526	0.10252	0.3676	18.36301	5.34
FLORENCE HOLBROOK	THE TWIN STARS.	THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22420/22420-h/22420-h.htm#Page_200	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Tired as they were, they did not have time to go to sleep before they heard a bear calling "Ugh! Ugh!" in the woods. They sprang up and ran out of the woods, and just before they came to the bottom of the hill, they saw right in front of them a beautiful little lake. They were not frightened any more, for there in the ...	153	163	0	null	12	13	1	-0.134893	0.484222	95.36	2.88	2.52	5	-0.03601	0.00123	0.278927	29.693953	1.2
Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Proud Little Grain of Wheat	Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10466/pg10466-images.html	gutenberg	1,888	Lit	start	PD	PG	2	1.5	There once was a little grain of wheat which was very proud indeed. The first thing it remembered was being very much crowded and jostled by a great many other grains of wheat, all living in the same sack in the granary. It was quite dark in the sack, and no one could move about, and so there was nothing to be done but...	155	158	1	neighbour	7	7	2	-0.130375	0.462687	79.58	8.62	10.56	7	0.04185	0.04185	0.340098	25.583031	5.74
Frances Hodgson Burnett	Behind the White Brick	Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10466/pg10466-images.html	gutenberg	1,888	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Jem hid her face on her arms and cried as if her heart would break. She cried until her eyes were heavy, and she thought she would be obliged to go to sleep. But just as she was thinking of going to sleep, something fell down the chimney and made her look up. It was a piece of mortar, and it brought a good deal of soot...	145	150	0	null	11	11	2	0.394616	0.509473	97.57	3.28	3.25	0	-0.09589	-0.06656	0.274826	21.903207	5.23
Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Land of the Blue Flower	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5302/pg5302-images.html	gutenberg	1,904	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	2	He forgot nothing. He lived looking out on all things from great, clear, joyous eyes. Upon his mountain crag he never heard a paltry or unbeautiful word or knew of the existence of unfriendliness or baseness in thought. As soon as he was old enough to go out alone he roamed about the great mountain and feared neither s...	183	184	0	null	10	11	2	-1.059971	0.514748	83.79	6.17	7.31	7	0.04665	0.0481	0.438281	19.408977	6.43
Frances Hodgson Burnett	A Little Princess	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/146/146-h/146-h.htm	gutenberg	1,905	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The birthday was to be celebrated by great festivities. The schoolroom was to be decorated, and there was to be a party. The boxes containing the presents were to be opened with great ceremony, and there was to be a glittering feast spread in Miss Minchin's sacred room. When the day arrived the whole house was in a whi...	184	188	0	null	10	10	2	-0.586359	0.468368	74.65	7.44	8.23	9	0.16624	0.14807	0.538789	14.729879	6.69
Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Secret Garden	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/113/113-h/113-h.htm	gutenberg	1,911	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The rainstorm had ended and the gray mist and clouds had been swept away in the night by the wind. The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched high over the moorland. Never, never had Mary dreamed of a sky so blue. In India skies were hot and blazing; this was of a deep cool blue which almost seeme...	166	176	0	null	11	15	2	-0.944089	0.481838	88.45	4.44	4.8	6	0.15433	0.15143	0.465342	13.44933	7.31
Frances Hodgson Burnett	My Robin	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5304/pg5304-images.html	gutenberg	1,912	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	He followed us, hopping in the grass or from rose bush to rose bush. No word of ours escaped him. If our conversation on the enthralling subjects of fertilizers and aphides seemed in its earnest absorption to verge upon the emotional and tender he interfered at once. He commanded my attention. He perched on nearby boug...	146	156	0	null	12	13	2	-1.926422	0.545729	77.13	5.56	5.45	8	0.14052	0.17125	0.31639	13.725553	7.98
Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Lost Prince	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/384/384-h/384-h.htm	gutenberg	1,915	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	When they came back from the graveyard, The Rat was silent all the way. He was thinking of what had happened and of what lay before him. He was, in fact, thinking chiefly that nothing lay before him—nothing. The certainty of that gave his sharp, lined face new lines and sharpness which made it look pinched and hard. He...	161	164	0	null	9	9	3	0.277144	0.472744	83.61	6.1	6.99	7	0.03376	0.05916	0.315753	18.265506	5.99
FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER	THE BOY WITH THE U.S. CENSUS	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13181/13181-h/13181-h.htm	gutenberg	1,911	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The following morning, an early breakfast over, Hamilton started on the journey to his enumeration district, stopping at the office for a moment's chat with his friend the supervisor, and receiving his good luck wishes before he went. The mare was a delight, being well-paced, and the horseman from whom Hamilton had bou...	196	198	0	null	8	8	2	-0.998571	0.476082	55.24	11.7	11.99	12	0.07694	0.06875	0.53137	13.300975	6.94
FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER	THE BOY WITH THE U. S. FISHERIES	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21008/21008-h/21008-h.htm	gutenberg	1,912	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The boy rose and went back to the open window. It seemed to him that there was more tumult from the rookery than when he had listened half an hour before, but it occurred to him that this was probably the result of the silence of the hour and his own restlessness. Then, not loudly, but distinctly, in spite of its being...	191	192	0	null	8	8	2	-1.04416	0.49877	74.95	8.8	9.61	9	-0.0377	-0.02483	0.408667	15.157802	6.55
FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER	THE BOY WITH THE U. S. FORESTERS	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18874/18874-h/18874-h.htm	gutenberg	2,006	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	One night, returning from a hard day, on which he had not only ridden his fire patrol, but had also spent a couple of hours rolling big rocks into a creek to keep it from washing out a trail should a freshet come, he found a large party of people at his camp. There was an ex-professor of social science of the old régim...	153	164	0	null	7	7	5	-1.0142	0.474241	70.98	9	9.09	8	0.14392	0.16574	0.372098	12.719112	7.54
FRANK FOWLER	The Broncho Rider Boys With Funston at Vera Cruz	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19538/19538-h/19538-h.htm	gutenberg	2,006	Lit	start	PD	PG	2	1.5	"Let me look, Billie," and Donald reached out his hand for the field glass through which Broncho Billie was gazing down from the summit of Real del Monte upon the plain of Quesco, through which the Pachuca river winds its way. "Maybe I can make out who they are." Billie handed over the glass without a word and stood ex...	141	157	0	null	6	6	4	-0.746615	0.45971	60.86	10.73	11.86	11	0.06219	0.09743	0.39592	12.33313	8.34
Frank R. Stockton	A Jolly Fellowship	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20651/20651-h/20651-h.htm	gutenberg	1,901	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	There were but few passengers on deck, for it was quite cold, and it now began to grow dark, and we went below. Pretty soon the dinner-bell rang, and I was glad to hear it, for I had the appetite of a horse. There was a first-rate dinner, ever so many different kinds of dishes, all up and down the table, which had ridg...	184	186	0	null	6	7	1	-0.462051	0.462572	77.48	9.09	9.6	8	0.01387	0.01085	0.413	21.053544	2.08
G. Harvey Ralphson	Boy Scouts in Mexico; or On Guard with Uncle Sam	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2191/2191-h/2191-h.htm	gutenberg	1,911	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	It was weirdly lonely in the dark little dent on the side of the mountain after the departure of the two boys, and Jimmie drew closer to his companion. The wind which swept the heights was chilly. The two lay close together in silence for a long time, each, doubtless, thinking of the Great White Way and the lights whic...	145	150	0	null	6	6	3	-0.001112	0.492674	74.35	8.98	10.74	9	0.14879	0.18494	0.361812	11.500715	6.46
G. Harvey Ralphson	Boy Scouts in a Submarine	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6108/pg6108-images.html	gutenberg	1,912	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The Sea Lion was a United States submarine, yet she was not constructed along the usual naval lines. It was said of her that she looked more like a pleasure yacht built for under-surface work than anything else. It is not the purpose of the writer to enter into a minute description of the craft. She was provided with a...	173	174	0	null	9	9	2	-0.503614	0.495474	64.79	9.05	9.08	10	0.16858	0.17184	0.493006	12.89554	7.4
G. Harvey Ralphson	Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11469/pg11469-images.html	gutenberg	1,912	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Jack and Frank sat long by the window, waiting for Ned and Jimmie to return. The doors of the adjoining rooms were wide open, so they had a full view of the lower floor. There were windows, unglazed like that which looked out on the Gulf of Pechili, too, and the lads could see for some distance along the street which r...	161	162	0	null	7	7	2	-1.33108	0.475935	64.8	9.97	11.46	11	0.0902	0.11292	0.41115	8.959786	7.71
G. Harvey Ralphson	Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22674/22674-h/22674-h.htm	gutenberg	1,914	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The others were watching him closely. They guessed something of the nature of what must be passing through Ned's mind, for both Jack and Teddy followed his gaze up the uneven shore. Jimmy had the glasses again, and was busily engaged in scrutinizing the blur on the distant horizon, which all of them had agreed must be ...	144	148	0	null	7	6	2	-0.371472	0.502372	60.5	10	11.12	11	0.20203	0.22276	0.365501	10.373125	8.46
G. Harvey Ralphson	Boy Scouts in Southern Waters	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13859/13859-h/13859-h.htm	gutenberg	1,915	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Four boys were standing in the pilot house of a sturdily built and splendidly equipped motor boat that was being rolled and tossed by the, waves driven from the Gulf of Mexico before a southerly wind. Great banks of fog were rolling inland before the wind--fog so thick it was scarcely possible to see a boat's length ah...	180	187	0	null	8	10	3	-1.621395	0.467809	61.84	9.69	10.94	12	0.26267	0.24128	0.576136	10.695129	8.27
G. Harvey Ralphson	Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22991/22991-h/22991-h.htm	gutenberg	1,916	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	With trembling hands the lad took the shavings from Jack's hand. Carefully shielding the tiny flame from possible draughts of air, the boy held the point of one of the thin pieces of wood over the flare. In a moment it had caught fire. Licking up the curl, the flame gradually leaped from one piece of wood to another un...	153	159	1	draughts	9	9	3	0.088148	0.499267	76.37	6.89	8.36	8	0.15584	0.17184	0.375095	10.641896	7.04
Gabrielle E. Jackson	Peggy Stewart, Navy Girl, at Home	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5729/pg5729-images.html	gutenberg	1,911	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The colt raised his head, whinnied aloud as though in denial and stamped one deer-like, unshod fore-hoof as though to emphasize his protest; then he again slid his head back into the arms as if their slender roundness encompassed all his little world. "You old dear!" exclaimed the girl softly, adding: "Eh, but it's a b...	192	202	0	null	8	7	3	-1.836193	0.52167	64.64	10.39	12.21	10	0.15482	0.13559	0.548142	5.356033	7.81
Gabrielle E. Jackson	Peggy Stewart at School	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22113/22113-h/22113-h.htm	gutenberg	1,918	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	They drove into Annapolis by the bridge which crosses the Severn just above the Naval Hospital, and from which the whole Academy is seen at its best, with the wide sweep of the beautiful Chesapeake beyond. Jess pointed out everything most carefully. Then on they went across College Creek bridge, up College Avenue, by h...	157	164	0	null	10	10	3	-1.094125	0.475968	68.85	7.61	7.52	11	0.05767	0.07785	0.349377	11.651411	7.21
George Durston	The Boy Scout Aviators	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5707/pg5707-images.html	gutenberg	1,921	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	It had been hard for Harry, when his father's business called him to England, to give up a all the friendships and associations of his boyhood. Had been hard to leave school; to tear up, by the roots, all the things that bound him to his home. But as a scout he had learned to be loyal and obedient. His parents had talk...	176	185	0	null	11	11	2	-0.017161	0.465673	83.47	5.64	5.35	8	0.03853	0.04756	0.408133	29.066009	6.3
George Durston	The Boy Scouts on the Trail	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20327/20327-h/20327-h.htm	gutenberg	1,921	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Morning brought awakening to the two friends with the sounding of reveille from bugles, seemingly just outside their window. Together they sprang from bed, raced to the window, wide open as it had been all night, and looked out. Not far away, in a small park, one of those for which the city of Amiens is famous, they sa...	159	159	0	null	7	7	1	-1.170767	0.475845	69.92	9.15	9.86	10	0.06133	0.08106	0.356157	18.233333	6.95
George MacDonald	At the Back of the North Wind	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/225/225-h/225-h.htm#link2HCH0002	gutenberg	1,871	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	It was a clear night overhead, and the stars were shining. Orion in particular was making the most of his bright belt and golden sword. But the moon was only a poor thin crescent. There was just one great, jagged, black and gray cloud in the sky, with a steep side to it like a precipice; and the moon was against this s...	158	158	0	null	7	7	1	-0.532915	0.430425	82.69	7.37	8.15	8	0.04569	0.0744	0.332438	16.028652	5.56
George MacDonald	The Princess and the Goblin	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/708/708-h/708-h.htm#chap02	gutenberg	1,872	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	She did not cry long, however, for she was as brave as could be expected of a princess of her age. After a good cry, she got up, and brushed the dust from her frock. Oh, what old dust it was! Then she wiped her eyes with her hands, for princesses don't always have their handkerchiefs in their pockets, any more than som...	193	194	0	null	12	12	1	-0.20957	0.462096	87.09	5.15	5.55	7	0.07523	0.07104	0.469951	23.175376	5.33
George MacDonald	The Princess and the Curdie	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/709/709-h/709-h.htm#chap02	gutenberg	1,883	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	When in the winter they had had their supper and sat about the fire, or when in the summer they lay on the border of the rock-margined stream that ran through their little meadow close by the door of their cottage, issuing from the far-up whiteness often folded in clouds, Curdie's mother would not seldom lead the conve...	193	196	1	behaviour	3	3	2	-1.857994	0.533949	26.62	25.94	32.12	14	0.19317	0.19317	0.505401	13.174673	8.9
George W. Peck	Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25487/25487-h/25487-h.htm	gutenberg	1,883	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Of course all boys are not full of tricks, but the best of them are. That is, those who are the readiest to play innocent jokes, and who are continually looking for chances to make Rome howl, are the most apt to turn out to be first-class business men. There is a boy in the Seventh Ward who is so full of fun that somet...	190	192	0	null	6	6	1	-0.715517	0.45912	74.42	10.79	12.5	9	0.05839	0.05324	0.441484	22.106923	6.46
George W. Peck	The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25488/25488-h/25488-h.htm	gutenberg	1,893	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	2	In the meantime, one of the grocery man's best customers—a deacon in the church—had come in and sat down on the counter, over the darning needle, and as the grocery man came in with the coal, the boy pulled the string, and went out door and tipped over a basket of rutabagas, while the deacon got down off the counter wi...	159	161	0	null	3	3	1	-1.156364	0.460135	42.37	20.52	24.71	12	0.16263	0.19027	0.349705	14.215227	8.05
George W. Peck	Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25490/25490-h/25490-h.htm	gutenberg	1,899	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	Uncle Ike was sitting in his room with a bath robe on, and his great, big, bare feet in a tub of hot water, in which some dry mustard had been sifted, and on a table beside him was a pitcher of hot lemonade, which he was trying to drink, as it got cool enough to go down his neck without scorching his throat. His head w...	188	192	0	null	4	5	2	-0.542735	0.461072	54.43	17.47	20.53	11	0.01184	0.0087	0.418765	13.320643	7.49
George W. Peck	Peck's Compendium of Fun	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14815/14815-h/14815-h.htm	gutenberg	1,900	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	We never had a coal stove around the house until last Saturday. Have always used pine slabs and pieces of our neighbor's fence. They burn well, too, but the fence got all burned up, and the neighbor said he wouldn't build a new one, so we went down to Jones' and got a coal stove. After supper we took a piece of ice and...	190	195	0	null	9	9	3	-0.295662	0.475413	82.04	7.17	8.28	7	0.0881	0.07654	0.455381	21.384324	6.33
George W. Peck	Peck's Bad Boy Abroad	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25489/25489-h/25489-h.htm	gutenberg	1,905	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2	I take the first opportunity, since leaving New York, to write you, 'cause the boat, after three days out, has got settled down so it runs level, and I can write without wrapping my legs around the table legs, to hold me down. I have tried a dozen times to write, but the sea was so rough that part of the time the table...	197	197	0	null	5	5	1	-1.260376	0.458377	63.35	14.21	16.17	8	0.1509	0.14109	0.433363	17.966741	6.39
George W. Peck	Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10212/10212-h/10212-h.htm	gutenberg	1,906	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The female kangaroo is surely a wonder, and seems to be built on plans and specifications different from any other animal, cause she has got a fur-lined pouch on her stomach, just like a vest, that she carries her young in. When the babies are frightened they make a hurry-up move towards ma, the pouch opens, and they j...	177	182	0	null	4	4	1	-0.013471	0.495153	58.85	16.17	18.85	10	0.11677	0.12302	0.414733	21.161441	7.62
George W. Peck	Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6141/6141-h/6141-h.htm	gutenberg	1,907	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	Pa ought to have believed the scientists, 'cause they know all about their business, but after the scientists had gone to bed the cowboys began to string pa. They told him that about a hundred miles to the north, in a valley in the mountains, the dinosaurus still existed, alive, and that no man dare go there. One cowbo...	166	167	0	null	4	4	1	-0.732149	0.507353	55.14	15.88	18.9	10	0.1409	0.16147	0.396932	19.217362	6.84
Gerald Breckenridge	The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14278/14278-h/14278-h.htm	gutenberg	1,922	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	The other shook his head. "No, Jack wrote us they would have everything installed by the 15th and that we should be on the lookout for his voice. And when he says he'll do a thing, he generally does it. It must be the weather. Let's step out again and have a look." Taking off their headpieces, the two boys opened the d...	177	191	0	null	13	14	6	-0.758661	0.484242	76.97	6.02	6.31	8	0.12735	0.12112	0.470524	16.430607	6.66
GRACE BROOKS HILL	THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS AT SCHOOL	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21034/21034-h/21034-h.htm	gutenberg	1,915	Lit	mid	PD	PG-13	3	2.5	Ruth was an intellectual looking girl—so people said. She had little color, and her auburn hair was "stringy"—which she hated! Now that she was no longer obliged to consider the expenditure of each dollar so carefully, the worried look about her big brown eyes, and the compression of her lips, had relaxed. For two year...	160	166	0	null	11	12	3	-0.218957	0.47608	73.46	6.69	6.79	9	0.07475	0.07177	0.452907	19.223837	7.37
Mabel C. Hawley	Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15655/pg15655-images.html	gutenberg	1,920	Lit	mid	PD	PG	2	1.5	With a sudden rush, the bobsled started. Dot clutched Meg frantically, and even Twaddles was startled. They had no idea it would seem so "different." The wind almost took their breath away, but they still had enough to scream with. You've noticed, haven't you, how every one on a bobsled just naturally screams when it i...	168	174	0	null	10	11	3	-0.144801	0.473897	83.08	5.89	7.41	7	0.13729	0.13885	0.421106	14.740364	6.89
Mabell S. C. Smith	Ethel Morton's Enterprise	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11660/11660-h/11660-h.htm	gutenberg	1,915	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	Next year it would be Dorothy's turn. This year her party had consisted merely in taking her cousins on an automobile ride. A similar ride had been planned for Ethel Blue's birthday, but the giants had plans of their own and the young people had had to give way to them. Dorothy had come over to spend the afternoon and ...	190	197	0	null	7	8	2	-0.609884	0.518572	63.09	11.24	11.88	11	0.11548	0.09357	0.464175	17.435457	7.22
Mabell S. C. Smith	Ethel Morton's Holidays	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19834/19834-h/19834-h.htm	gutenberg	1,915	Lit	start	PD	G	1	1	The big brown automobile gave three honks as it swung around the corner from Church Street. Roger Morton, raking leaves in the yard beside his house, threw down his rake and vaulted over the gate. "Good afternoon, sir," he called to his grandfather, saluting, soldier fashion. "Good afternoon, son. I stopped to tell you...	149	168	0	null	13	12	6	1.039927	0.551908	80.64	5.2	5.32	8	-0.01015	0.00987	0.335686	16.206128	6.02
Margaret Penrose	THE MOTOR GIRLS ON A TOUR	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2789/pg2789-images.html	gutenberg	1,910	Lit	start	PD	G	1	1	The big maroon car glided along in such perfect rhythm that Cora Kimball, the fair driver of the Whirlwind, heard scarcely a sound of its mechanical workings. To her the car went noiselessly—the perfection of its motion was akin to the very music of silence. Hazel Hastings was simply sumptuous in the tonneau—she had sp...	175	180	0	null	8	8	4	-1.742984	0.502888	53.21	11.4	12.69	12	0.29892	0.27608	0.56874	8.99728	9.07
Margaret Penrose	THE MOTOR GIRLS THROUGH NEW ENGLAND	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20870/pg20870-images.html	gutenberg	1,911	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	Bess, Belle and Cora were holding this whispered conversation. It was Belle, the timid, who wanted to cry, and it was Cora who had really seen the man—got the good look. Bess did say she wished the boys were around, but Bess had great confidence in those boys, and this remark, when a man was actually sneaking around Cl...	188	197	0	null	10	10	5	-0.474761	0.457679	71.27	7.72	8.3	10	0.15406	0.12573	0.558316	16.319589	7.59
Margaret Penrose	THE MOTOR GIRLS ON WATERS BLUE	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7210/pg7210-images.html	gutenberg	1,915	Lit	start	PD	G	1	1	With a crunching of the small stones in the gravel drive, the big car swung around to the side entrance of the house, and came to a stop, with a whining, screeching and, generally protesting sound of the brake-bands. A girl, bronzed by the summer sun, let her gloved hands fall from the steering wheel, for she had drive...	167	171	0	null	7	7	3	-0.001665	0.470864	74.19	8.98	10.82	8	0.1633	0.17756	0.423606	4.615413	7.62
Margaret Penrose	Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20699/20699-h/20699-h.htm	gutenberg	1,868	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	Dotty continued to go to Mrs. Gray's every night with the milk. Sometimes Katie went with her, and then they always paused a while under the acorn-tree and played "King and Queen." Dotty said she wished they could ever remember to bring their nipperkins, for in that case the milk would taste a great deal more like nect...	179	192	0	null	9	10	3	-0.273442	0.469517	81.72	6.88	8.21	8	0.0343	0.02349	0.432366	19.038936	6.55
Margaret Penrose	Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5629/pg5629-images.html	gutenberg	1,908	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	Joe Dale was a credit to the family. Although only a boy in his tenth year, he possessed as much manliness as many another well in the teens. He was tall, and of the dark type, while Dorothy was not quite so tall, and had fair hair; so that, in spite of the difference of their ages, Joe was often considered Dorothy's b...	162	167	0	null	8	9	3	-0.377747	0.462366	70.99	8.45	8.84	9	0.12619	0.11885	0.407223	18.058288	7.64
Margaret Penrose	Dorothy Dale's Camping Days	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16091/16091-h/16091-h.htm	gutenberg	1,908	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	Dorothy and Cologne were gathering berries this morning, while Tavia ran off to a spot where she declared she could get the better kind of fruit, better than any they had yet secured. She turned in back of the big barn, then ran over behind the ice-house, and then she smelled apples, ripe apples. "There are harvest app...	184	211	0	null	16	17	9	-0.286843	0.481677	84.64	4.47	5.04	7	0.07387	0.06216	0.506285	21.050677	6.44
Margaret Sidney	Five Little Peppers And How They Grew	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2770/2770-h/2770-h.htm	gutenberg	1,881	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	"Oh, dear," said Polly to herself, the next morning, trying to get a breakfast for the sick ones out of the inevitable mush; "everything's just as bad as it can be! they can't ever eat this; I wish I had an ocean of toast!" "Toast some of the bread in the pail, Polly," said Mrs. Pepper. She looked worn and worried; she...	184	212	0	null	9	9	5	-0.88391	0.459284	78.09	7.58	8.42	7	0.14699	0.12075	0.550918	11.855023	7.44
Margaret Sidney	Five Little Peppers Midway	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5632/pg5632-images.html	gutenberg	1,892	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	It was all over. Phronsie had been swept off, a vision of loveliness, to the cave; the dragons had roared their loudest, and the gallant knight had covered himself with glory in the brilliant rescue of the Princess; the little page had won the hearts of all the ladies; Mr. King had applauded himself hoarse, especially ...	178	206	1	prologue	12	13	6	-1.570218	0.458066	73.93	6.74	7.54	8	0.1851	0.16965	0.523099	13.933948	7.5
Margaret Sidney	Five Little Peppers Grown Up	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7498/pg7498-images.html	gutenberg	1,892	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	Polly straightened up, sent Mamsie down a bright smile that made Mrs. Fisher nod, and flash back one in return, then bent all her energies to making that duet speak its message through the concert-room. People who had rather languished in their chairs, now gathered themselves up with fresh interest, and clapped their h...	159	161	0	null	5	5	2	-0.936548	0.499959	58.02	13.22	16.75	10	0.11799	0.13401	0.406401	6.670248	8.36
Margaret Sidney	The Adventures of Joel Pepper	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7434/7434-h/7434-h.htm	gutenberg	1,900	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	Joel sat bolt upright as well as he could, being crammed in between a big fat man and his kind friend, and directed this way and that way, his tears all gone, and before any one could hardly think twice, the pair of black horses and the jingling harness and big carriage had stopped before the little brown house, and th...	195	203	0	null	5	6	1	-1.9681	0.474456	58.97	14.87	18.13	8	0.1422	0.12945	0.47421	10.350903	7.43
Margaret Sidney	Five Little Peppers Abroad	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6987/pg6987-images.html	gutenberg	1,902	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	"We'll go there the first day, Polly," said Jasper, "the Louvre, I mean. Well, here we are in Paris!" And then it was all confusion, for the guards were throwing open the doors to the compartments, and streams of people were meeting on the platform, in what seemed to be inextricable confusion amid a babel of sounds. An...	191	202	1	realise	7	7	2	-1.333456	0.492384	63.55	11.21	12.91	11	0.14421	0.14107	0.540435	13.545562	7.88
Margaret Sidney	Five Little Peppers and their Friends	null	http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6418/pg6418-images.html	gutenberg	1,904	Lit	mid	PD	G	1	1	Looking both sides of the road, not daring to think what she would say if she really did see Clem, Polly sped on. But not a glimpse of the tall girl's figure met her eyes, and at last she turned in at a gateway and ran up the little path to the door. Mrs. Forsythe saw her through the window that opened on the piazza. "...	161	181	0	null	11	11	5	0.009684	0.493302	94.19	3.85	3.72	5	-0.01241	0.00159	0.398236	21.058323	6.96

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REG_TEXT_BOOK_READABILITY

Part of MulTaBench, a benchmark for multimodal tabular learning.

Target: New Dale Chall Readability Formula
Rows: 4724
Original source: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/verracodeguacas/clear-corpus

Load the benchmark splits with multabench.load_split("REG_TEXT_BOOK_READABILITY", fold=0).

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Sentence Count v1	float
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Paragraphs	float
BT Easiness	float
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Flesch-Reading-Ease	float
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Automated Readability Index	float
SMOG Readability	float
CAREC	float
CAREC_M	float
CARES	float
CML2RI	float
New Dale Chall Readability Formula	float

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