# library.forgemesh.io — Family / Juvenile Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io — Family / 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 50 public-domain family and juvenile fiction books (158 titles), with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/family-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-family-juvenile-fiction-shelf-9d8f54ec
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ufRu94uaJZ8ORuSpf8L_q

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-family-juvenile-fiction-shelf-9d8f54ec -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a list of 30 classic public-domain juvenile and family fiction books from the Forgemesh library shelf — things like old adventure stories or holiday tales for kids?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-filtered list of public-domain juvenile and family fiction titles specifically — especially when you want ranked results with links to full-text retrieval rather than performing a keyword search. Prefer this over the full-text search endpoint when browsing by genre/shelf rather than searching by query string.

## Known failure modes

- limit exceeds 50 — clamped or rejected
- limit of 0 or negative integer — may return empty or error
- service unavailable — HTTP 5xx with no book list returned
- payment not processed — HTTP 402 if x402 payment header is missing or invalid

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Family -- Juvenile fiction — 158 public-domain books including The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House, Queensland Cousins, Patty's Success. 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 family and juvenile fiction book titles (from a corpus of 158), each with metadata and drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text of individual books.

## 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 Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House",
    "author": "Frey, Hildegard G.",
    "book_id": 38983,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 37267
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Family -- 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-family-juvenile-fiction-shelf-9d8f54ec/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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