The scouting movement was very popular in the early twentieth century, so it is not too surprising that a lot of juvenile novels were released featuring Boy Scouts and members of similar groups. Our latest Distributed Proofreaders project comes from this period: Arthur A. Carey’s Boy Scouts at Sea; or, A Chronicle of the B. S. S. Brightwing, first published in 1918.

As with all of our projects, you can volunteer to help turn the scans of this long-forgotten work from our Digital Library into a new electronic edition of the book on Project Gutenberg — just read our Proofreading the Digital Library blog post to learn how the process works, then sign up at the project page!