Jim Hawkins and his friends find that the marooned sailor Ben Gunn has already dug up Captain Flint’s treasure and hidden it in his cave.

Hercule Poirot proves that Caroline Crale, who died in prison after being convicted of poisoning her painter husband Amyas sixteen years earlier, was innocent.

After years of hard work and cruel treatment as a cab horse, Black Beauty is sold to three kind ladies in the countryside.

After Matthew Cuthbert dies and Marilla’s eyesight fails, Anne Shirley gives up a scholarship to study at Redmond College so she can stay at Green Gables and help Marilla.

Cathy, Chris and Carrie escape the attic after learning their mother has been poisoning them, and board a train.

Sara Crewe, left penniless and treated as a servant after her father’s death, is found by her father’s friend Mr.

Jim, who now calls himself James, escapes slavery, kills the enslaver who holds his wife and daughter, and frees them.

U.S. libraries are rebounding: median visits per person rose from 0.4 in fiscal 2021 to 2.8 in fiscal 2023, and electronic circulation is up 84% since fiscal 2018, according to IMLS.

Charlie Gordon loses his intelligence and returns to his earlier state.

Lyman Ward, writing about his grandmother Susan Burling Ward, reveals that her affair with Oliver’s assistant Frank Sargent led to the drowning of her young daughter Agnes, after which Frank killed himself and Oliver withdrew from Susan for decades.