14 Best childrens books like Friska, My Friend by Patricia St. John

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Friska, My Friend

By: Patricia St. John

3.88

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Knowing that Jesus paid a great price that everyone might belong to God, Colin decides to make a si…

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Cover of A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Arthur Pober, Tania Zamorsky, Lucy Corvino

1. A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Arthur Pober , Tania Zamorsky , Lucy Corvino

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 book… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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2. The Railway Children

By: E. Nesbit

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

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3. An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0, #3)

By: Scott Meyer

4.00

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever since Martin Banks and his fellow computer geeks discovered that reality is just a computer pr… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis

4. Justin Morgan Had a Horse

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Joel's face suddenly lit up as if he had thought of something for the first time. He spoke now to t… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

5. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

Cover of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

6. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.68

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie … read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"It's very difficult to phone people in China, Mr President,' said the Postmaster General. 'The country's so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

Cover of The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1) by Jeanne Birdsall

7. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

By: Jeanne Birdsall

4.19

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

The Penderwick sisters busily discover the summertime magic of Arundel estate’s sprawling gardens, … read more

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  • fiction
"The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain."

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

"Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey."

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

"Maybe it's fate Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost."

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

"Toward the urn the three children raced in a dead heat, Jane still shouting . FOR CHURCHILL, NELSON, AND PRINCE WILLIAM!"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

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8. Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1)

By: Scott Meyer

4.00

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, th… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Goat Who Sailed the World by Jackie French

9. The Goat Who Sailed the World

By: Jackie French

3.92

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Captain Cook's goat is the first of many historical animals to bring the past to life. The HM Ba… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0, #2) by Scott  Meyer

10. Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0, #2)

By: Scott Meyer

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The adventures of an American hacker in Medieval England continue as Martin Banks takes his next st… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Viking Adventure by Clyde Robert Bulla, Douglas Gorsline

11. Viking Adventure

By: Clyde Robert Bulla , Douglas Gorsline

2.78

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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12. 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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  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

13. Fantastic Mr. Fox

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, s… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement"

-Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox

14. How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)

By: Cressida Cowell

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "t… read more

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15. Raiders from the Sea (Viking Quest, #1)

By: Lois Walfrid Johnson

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

In one harrowing day, Viking raiders capture Bree and her brother Devin and take them from their ho… read more

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16. Mystery of the Silver Coins (Viking Quest, #2)

By: Lois Walfrid Johnson

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this second installment of the Viking Questseries, Bree finds herself in a physical and spiritua… read more

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17. Escape from the Great Earthquake (Ranger in Time #6)

By: Kate Messner , Kelley McMorris

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Ranger travels to San Francisco and meets Lily Chen. She was sent from China to America to work as … read more

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Cover of Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lowell Bair

18. Journey to the Center of the Earth

By: Jules Verne , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lowell Bair

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims … read more

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"Axel,"

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"Then don’t you despair?"

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"I dream with my eyes open."

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow."

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

Cover of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

19. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.16

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Charlie Bucket's wonderful adventure begins when he finds one of Mr. Willy Wonka's precious Golden … read more

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  • fiction
"Good day, Sir."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)

"The snozberries taste like snozberries!"

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)

"I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)

"Good morning starshine the earth says hello...."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)

Cover of Heidi by Johanna Spyri, Beverly Cleary, None

20. Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more

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  • fiction
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

Cover of The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith by Timothy J. Keller

21. The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.42

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a … read more

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  • christian
"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jes…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting th…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to …"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me throug…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

22. The Story of Shy the Platypus

By: Leslie Rees

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

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Cover of The Gospel Comes with a House Key by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

23. The Gospel Comes with a House Key

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What did God use to draw a radical, committed unbeliever to himself? Did God take her to an evangel… read more

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  • christian
Cover of All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore

24. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

By: Beth Moore

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more

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  • christian
"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

Cover of Fight and Flight (Magic 2.0, #4) by Scott  Meyer

25. Fight and Flight (Magic 2.0, #4)

By: Scott Meyer

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Martin and his friends discovered that their world is computer-generated and that by altering the c… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion by Rebecca McLaughlin

26. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

By: Rebecca McLaughlin

4.32

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Although many people suggest that Christianity is declining, research indicates that it continues t… read more

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  • christian
"Suffering is not an embarrassment to the Christian faith. It is the thread with which Christ's name is stitched into our lives."

-Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

Cover of The Vexed Generation (Magic 2.0 #6) by Scott  Meyer

27. The Vexed Generation (Magic 2.0 #6)

By: Scott Meyer

4.11

Format: 10 pages, Audible Audio

Mattie and Brewster are normal, typical 16-year-old twins who live with their normal, boring parent… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More by Ruth Chou Simons

28. Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More

By: Ruth Chou Simons

4.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Chou Simons guides readers who are restless in their current circumstances … read more

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  • christian
Cover of Out of Spite, Out of Mind (Magic 2.0 #5) by Scott  Meyer

29. Out of Spite, Out of Mind (Magic 2.0 #5)

By: Scott Meyer

3.79

Format: 8 pages, Audible Audio

When you discover the world is a computer program, and you figure out that by altering the code you… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Friska, My Friend by Patricia St. John

30. Friska, My Friend

By: Patricia St. John

3.88

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Knowing that Jesus paid a great price that everyone might belong to God, Colin decides to make a si… read more

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  • christian
  • childrens
  • fiction
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31. The Poppy Seeds

By: Clyde Robert Bulla

3.92

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

In Pablo's small Mexican village, the only source of fresh water is jealously guarded by a bitter o… read more

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  • childrens

19 must-read fiction books like Friska, My Friend by Patricia St. John

Transform Your Habits

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett , Arthur Pober , Tania Zamorsky , Lucy Corvino

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit

4.02

Transform Your Habits

An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0, #3)

Scott Meyer

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

4.05

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17 Best fiction books like Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lowell Bair

Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

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