# ForgeMesh Library — Children & Young Adult Reading Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library — Children & Young Adult Reading Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 90 public-domain children's and young adult books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/children-young-adult-reading
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-children-young-adult-reading-shelf-8c9d2c1a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Qpb5BnZyAV_RhRWwx1N5q

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemesh-library-children-young-adult-reading-shelf-8c9d2c1a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the top 30 public-domain children's and young adult books from the ForgeMesh library shelf — things like Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Grimms' Fairy Tales — and give me the list with links to read the full text.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of classic public-domain children's or young adult books — especially when you want drill-down routes to retrieve full text. It is ideal for reading list generation, educational content discovery, or building a children's literature browser without needing any API key or license.

## Known failure modes

- limit exceeds maximum of 50 — server may cap or return an error
- payment not processed (x402 protocol failure) — no results returned
- invalid limit type (non-integer) — schema validation error
- network timeout on the POST request
- empty response if corpus index is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Children & Young Adult Reading — 6345 public-domain books including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of public-domain children's and young adult books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50) drawn from a corpus of 90 titles including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Grimms' Fairy Tales, each entry including metadata and a drill-down route for full-text retrieval.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland",
    "author": "Carroll, Lewis",
    "book_id": 11,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 82955
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Children & Young Adult Reading",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-children-young-adult-reading-shelf-8c9d2c1a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from library.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/library.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)