Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons, #2)
By: Arthur Ransome
3.71
Format: 656 pages,
The second title in Arthur Ransome's classic series for children, for grownups, for anyone captivat…
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1. 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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- classics
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- fiction
- historical 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
2. The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)
By: Elizabeth Enright
4.17
Format: 177 pages, Hardcover
Saturdays can make dreams come true when the Melendy children take turns to spend their pooled al… read more
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- historical fiction
"All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirlin…"-Elizabeth Enright, The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)
3. The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
By: Cecil Leslie , E. Nesbit
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes… read more
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"If what we have written brings happiness to any sad heart we shall not have laboured in vain. But we want the money too."-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
"Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be."-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
"I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this."-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
"Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of th…"-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
4. Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.11
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impo… read more
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"... обнадеждена безнадеждност..."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
"Всяко нещо струва толкова, за колкото може да се купи."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
"... да се прокрадва крадешком и да се мотае мотешком..."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
"Госпожица Уилоуби не обичаше провинцията. Намираше я за провинциална."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
5. The Trumpet-Major
By: Thomas Hardy
3.69
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitor… read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
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- british literature
6. The Incredible Journey
By: Sheila Burnford
4.16
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, … read more
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"He broke into a run, faster and faster, until the years fell away, and he hurled himself towards Peter. And as he had never run before, as though he would outdistance time, Peter was running towards …"-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
"Lying awake in the dark that night,unable to sleep, he thought he would have given anything to feel the heavy thud on the bed that used to announce the old dog's arrival. How extremely unloving and i…"-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
"Anyone unaccustomed to the rather peculiar points of bull terrier beauty would have thought him a strange if not downright ugly dog, with the maked, down-faced arc of his profile, his deep-chested, s…"-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
7. Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons, #2)
By: Arthur Ransome
3.71
Format: 656 pages,
The second title in Arthur Ransome's classic series for children, for grownups, for anyone captivat… read more
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- adventure
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8. The Hand of Ethelberta
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
9. The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)
By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin
4.01
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Four Moffat children and a hard-working widowed mother live on New Dollar Street in Cranbury villag… read more
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- childrens
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- historical fiction
10. Hudson Taylor: Deep in the Heart of China (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)
By: Janet Benge , Geoff Benge
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This series chronicles the exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories of ordinary men … read more
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11. They Were Sisters
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Three sisters marry very different men and the choices they make determine whether they will flouri… read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
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- british literature
12. Chronicles of Avonlea
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.94
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
On Prince Edward Island, where Anne Shirley grew up in the sea-sprayed town of Avonlea, there was n… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4)
By: Anthony Trollope
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Fourth in the Barsetshire Chronicles, FRAMLEY PARSONAGE was published in 1860. In it the values of … read more
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15. 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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16. The Wheel on the School
By: Maurice Sendak , Meindert DeJong
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why do the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina,… read more
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"... but first to dream and then to do - isn't that the way to make a dream come true?"-Maurice Sendak, The Wheel on the School
"That's the trouble with being twins - if you don't know something, you don't know it double."-Maurice Sendak, The Wheel on the School
17. The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
By: Hallie Rubenhold
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
The Covent Garden Ladiestells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose … read more
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18. Three Men on the Bummel (Three Men, #2)
By: Jerome K. Jerome
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Conceived as a fairly serious guide to amateur boating on the Thames in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's be… read more
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20. Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic
By: Helen L. Taylor
None
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Fifty-five years ago, Helen L. Taylor took John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and simplified the voca… read more
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21. The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, #1)
By: Jonathan Rogers , None , None
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Aidan Errolson comes from a long line of adventurers. His grandparents were among t… read more
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"You don't want to be killed. I don't either. But wouldn't you rather die once than die every day of your life?"-Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, #1)
"Who knows what the future holds? Only the One God," explained Aidan. "You just live the little bit of life that you can see in front of you. You live it well. And that gets you ready for whatever unf…"-Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, #1)
22. Man of the Family (Little Britches, #2)
By: Edward Shenton , Ralph Moody
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Early 1900s Colorado. Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western energy, the Moody family, transpl… read more
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23. 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
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24. The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
By: Rosemary Sutcliff
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Retells the adventures of King Arthur, Queen Guenevere, Sir Lancelot, and the other knights of the … read more
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25. A Laodicean: A Story of Today
By: Thomas Hardy , J.H. Stape
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
Having accepted the suit of Captain, Paula discovers that his illegitimate son has hatched a plot a… read more
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27. Pigs Have Wings (Blandings Castle, #8)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Lord Emsworth's quick-witted brother must stop the portly Sir Gregory Parsloe's plan to slim down E… read more
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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
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"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
30. The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids
By: Mystie Winckler
4.70
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Thirty daily readings to build up your confidence and cheerfulness as you homeschool. Homeschool… read more
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"It does not discredit our authority when we admit we are wrong and seek forgiveness. In fact, ignoring sin discredits our authority. When we repent before God and our children, we give them a categor…"-Mystie Winckler, The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids
