10 best-selling adventure books like Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle

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Otto of the Silver Hand

By: Howard Pyle

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A rich and engrossing thread of Romance runs through this tale of the motherless son of a valiant r…

If you liked the adventure plot in Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Michelangelo

By: Diane Stanley

4.16

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

With her thoroughly researched, lively narrative and superbly detailed illustrations, Diane Stanley… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
Cover of Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1) by Ralph Moody

2. Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)

By: Ralph Moody

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Thr… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
"There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. There are black men and white men and yellow men and red men, but nothing counts except whether they're honest men or dish…"

-Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)

"You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mar…"

-Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)

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3. Adam of the Road

By: Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

"A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's a good… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gray Vining's Adam of the Road book and Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand

  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
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4. The King's Fifth

By: Scott O'Dell

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A 1967 Newbery Honor Book  While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the oblig… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Rascal

By: John Schoenherr , Sterling North

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Otto of the Silver Hand

By: Howard Pyle

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A rich and engrossing thread of Romance runs through this tale of the motherless son of a valiant r… read more

Similar categories in Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand book and Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand

  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
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7. Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition

By: Karen Glass

4.36

Format: 224 pages,

The educators of ancient Greece and Rome gave the world a vision of what education should be. The m… read more

Similar categories in Karen Glass's Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition book and Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand

  • classics
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8. Black Ships Before Troy

By: Rosemary Sutcliff , Alan Lee

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. Rich with arres… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Bronze Bow

By: Elizabeth George Speare

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Sa… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

"It is the hate that is the enemy. Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only thing stronger than hate is love."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

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10. Big Red (Big Red, #1)

By: Jim Kjelgaard , Carl Pfeuffer

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

From the moment Danny sees the beautiful Irish setter, he knows Red is the dog for him. Fast and sm… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
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11. The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

4.88

Format: 242 pages,

The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great hous… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Eagle of the Ninth

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

3.94

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

One of Rosemary Sutcliff's acclaimed books set in Roman Britain. The Eagle of the Ninth tells the s… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one."

-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth

"And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said."

-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth

"You could give a slave his freedom, but nothing could undo the fact that he had been a slave; and between him, a freed-man, and any free man who had never been unfree, there would still be a differen…"

-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth

"Sometime about the year 117, the IXth Legion, which was stationed at Eburacum where York now stands, marched north to deal with a rising among the Caledonian tribes and was never heard of again... no…"

-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth

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13. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

By: Margaret Sidney

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Five Little Peppers and How They Grewwas originally serialized in an 1880 edition of Wide Awake, a … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew book and Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand

  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Paddle-to-the-Sea

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.28

Format: 64 pages, Library Binding

A 1942 Caldecott Honor Book A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and na… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

15. Rifles for Watie

By: Harold Keith

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the … read more

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16. Understood Betsy

By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

17. The Twenty-One Balloons

By: William Pène du Bois

4.15

Format: 222 pages,

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18. American Tall Tales

By: Adrien Stoutenburg

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Eight exciting classic American Tall Tales! This collection includes the famed stories of Paul Buny… read more

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Cover of The Princess and the Goblin  (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1) by George MacDonald, Arthur Hughes

19. The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

By: George MacDonald , Arthur Hughes

4.02

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the cas… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"

-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

"But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."…"

-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

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20. The Children of the New Forest

By: Frederick Marryat

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is … read more

Similar categories in Frederick Marryat's The Children of the New Forest book and Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand

  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

21. The King of the Golden River

By: John Ruskin , None

3.44

Format: 326 pages,

Little gem of Victorian literature, written in 1842 and published in 1851, tells a tale of the two … read more

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Cover of Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1) by Carol Ryrie Brink

22. Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

By: Carol Ryrie Brink

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to b… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life is just a lot of everyday adventures."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

"But every redhead's temper has its limitations."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes on at the end of an outdoor day."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

23. Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)

By: E. Nesbit

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will … read more

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24. Master Cornhill

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Victim of both the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, a homeless, penniless eleven-year-old… read more

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25. The Golden Goblet

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

3.82

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his evil brother, Gebu, so he can become master goldsm… read more

Similar categories in Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet book and Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand

  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. The Little Duke

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

4.13

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Little Duke book and Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand

  • medieval
  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
Cover of Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1) by Charlotte M. Mason

27. Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)

By: Charlotte M. Mason

4.53

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Book by Mason, Charlotte M. read more

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  • classics
  • school
"Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood."

-Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)

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28. Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline

By: AmblesideOnline Education Foundation

4.72

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

The AmblesideOnline Advisory began as a band of mothers who followed God and the vitalizing ideas o… read more

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29. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

Similar categories in Cindy Rollins's Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too book and Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand

  • childrens
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

Cover of Once a Queen (Carrick Hall, #1) by Sarah Arthur

30. Once a Queen (Carrick Hall, #1)

By: Sarah Arthur

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An American teenager discovers that her estranged English grandmother was once a queen in another w… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Arthur's Once a Queen (Carrick Hall, #1) book and Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. King of the Wind

By: Maguerite Henry

4.40

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1948, this is the story of one of historyâ€s most famous horses, the Godolp… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

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The King's Fifth

Scott O'Dell

3.66

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Rascal

John Schoenherr , Sterling North

3.91

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Otto of the Silver Hand

Howard Pyle

4.31

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Secret of the Andes (Puffin Newberry Library)

Ann Nolan Clark

3.54

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Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

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Thimble Summer

Elizabeth Enright

3.75

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A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32

Joan W. Blos

3.54

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