# ForgeMesh Library – Schools / Juvenile Fiction Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Schools / Juvenile Fiction 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 172 public-domain juvenile fiction books tagged with the 'Schools' subject, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/schools-juvenile-fiction
- 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-schools-juvenile-fiction-shelf-4df010f1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_A9_cGEWCSBAMWbb5W9sYH

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-schools-juvenile-fiction-shelf-4df010f1 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the top 30 public-domain juvenile fiction books tagged with schools from ForgeMesh Library so I can browse what's available?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-filtered list of school-themed juvenile fiction from the public domain without running a full-text search query. It is faster and more focused than a general corpus search for this specific genre and subject combination, and requires no API key.

## Known failure modes

- Limit parameter exceeding 50 may be capped or rejected
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance returns a 402 error
- Invalid limit type (non-integer) may cause a validation error
- Corpus may not include very recent public-domain additions

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Schools -- Juvenile fiction — 172 public-domain books including The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall, Claribel : $b or, Rest at last, Five Little Peppers at School. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of juvenile fiction books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50) matching the 'Schools' subject, drawn from a corpus of 172 public-domain titles. Each entry includes book title and drill-down routes for accessing the full text.

## 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": "The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall",
    "author": "Stratemeyer, Edward",
    "book_id": 22163,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 36057
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Schools -- Juvenile fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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