# library.forgemesh.io — Children: Conduct of Life Juvenile Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io — Children: Conduct of Life 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 431 public-domain children's conduct-of-life juvenile fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/children-conduct-of-life-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/library-forgemesh-io-children-conduct-of-life-juvenile-fiction-shelf-0ba91342
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_liWqEs1fJRm4mK9twtjws

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 library-forgemesh-io-children-conduct-of-life-juvenile-fiction-shelf-0ba91342 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the top 30 public-domain children's books on the ForGeMesh library shelf for conduct-of-life juvenile fiction — I want to browse classic stories teaching kids about morals and values?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need a curated, ranked list of public-domain children's juvenile fiction books focused on conduct of life and moral themes, and want drill-down access to full texts. Prefer it over a general full-text search when you want a browsable shelf rather than passage-level retrieval, and when you don't need to query across all genres.

## Known failure modes

- Limit parameter exceeds max of 50 — clipped or error returned
- Payment of $0.003 USDC not provided or rejected — 402 Payment Required
- Network timeout on corpus query — retry recommended
- Empty result if shelf index is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction — 431 public-domain books including The strange house : $b or, A moment's mistake, With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds, Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain juvenile fiction books in the Children — Conduct of Life category, including titles like 'The strange house: or, A moment's mistake', 'With Spurs of Gold', and 'Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks', along with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval of each book.

## 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 strange house : $b or, A moment's mistake",
    "author": "Shaw, Catharine",
    "book_id": 76759,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 11827
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction",
  "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/library-forgemesh-io-children-conduct-of-life-juvenile-fiction-shelf-0ba91342/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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