Michael OHalloran [Paperback]

This early 20th-century classic chronicles the adventures of an orphaned newspaper boy in his hand-to-hand scuffle with life in a midwestern metropolis. Gene Stratton-Porters faith in the healing power of nature is also apparent, in a lovingly depicted tamarack swamp set near the city.

1. Happy Home in Sunrise Alley
2. Moccasins and Lady Slippers
3. S. O. S.
4. Bearer of Morning
5. Little Brother
6. The Song of a Bird
7. Peaches Preference in Blessings
8. Big Brother
9. James Jr. and Malcolm
10. The Wheel of Life
11. The Advent of Nancy and Peter
12. Feminine Reasoning
13. A Safe Proposition
14. An Orphans Home
15. A Particular Nix
16. The fingers in the Pie
17. Initiations in an Ancient and Honourable Brotherhood
18. Malcolm and the Hermit Thrush
19. Establishing Protectorates
20. Mickeys Miracle

Gene Stratton-Porter (18631924) was born on a farm in Indiana. She later lived in a cabin adjoining the Limberlost Swamp, immortalized in her best-selling A Girl of the Limberlost. In 1923 she moved to California for her health, but was killed in an automobile accident in 1924. Other Stratton-Porter novels reissued by Indiana University Press include Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, and The Keeper of the Bees.