# library.forgemesh.io – Youth / Conduct of Life / Juvenile Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io – Youth / 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 50 curated public-domain juvenile fiction books on the theme of conduct of life and youth, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/youth-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-youth-conduct-of-life-juvenile-fiction-shelf-dbc88450
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CvNYG4Q8Xfi5QgRg3zYeZ

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-youth-conduct-of-life-juvenile-fiction-shelf-dbc88450 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the curated shelf of public-domain juvenile fiction about youth and conduct of life — give me the top 30 books with links to read the full texts?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need a curated, ranked list of public-domain juvenile fiction books categorized under 'Youth – Conduct of life' themes. It is ideal for building reading lists, homeschool curricula, or researching specific classic titles in this niche. Prefer this over the full-text search endpoint when you want browseable discovery rather than passage-level search, and over the general children's classics shelf when you need the conduct-of-life thematic focus specifically.

## Known failure modes

- limit parameter exceeds 50 — may be capped or rejected
- Payment of $0.003 USDC not processed — returns 402 Payment Required
- limit set to 0 or negative — returns empty list or validation error
- Network timeout on POST request
- Shelf returns fewer than requested books if corpus is smaller than limit

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Youth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction — 203 public-domain books including Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, Fighting for fortune : $b or, Making a place for himself, The Telegraph Messenger Boy; Or, The Straight Road to 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 juvenile fiction books on the theme of youth and conduct of life, including titles such as Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, Fighting for Fortune, and The Telegraph Messenger Boy, along with drill-down routes for accessing full text 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": "Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey",
    "author": "Lockwood, Ingersoll",
    "book_id": 57426,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 27005
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Youth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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