America Grows Up: A History for Peter
By: Gerald White Johnson
4.00
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
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1. Men, Microscopes, and Living Things
By: Katherine Binney Shippen
3.59
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Katherine Shippen collaborated with Anthony Ravielli, the illustrator to give a history of the stud… read more
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- history
2. The Story Book of Science
By: Jean-Henri Fabre
4.17
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The wonders of plant and animal life told with rare literary charm by Uncle Paul in conversations w… read more
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- history
3. How to be Your Own Selfish Pig: And Other Ways You've Been Brainwashed
By: Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
3.97
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
This book won’t teach you how to be a selfish pig. But it will tell you what a lot of people think … read more
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4. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
By: Lew Wallace
4.03
Format: 620 pages, Hardcover
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th cen… read more
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"In warning there is strength."-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
"The enemy of man is man, my brother."-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
"Knowledge leaves no room for chances."-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
"Pride is never so loud as when in chains."-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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6. Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
By: Steve Sheinkin
4.13
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next t… read more
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- history
"She was too well-trained to panic."-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
"When do I start?" is the most refreshing thing I've heard in this whole war."-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
"Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots."-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
"Everyone worked day and night, Monday through Saturday. Oppenheimer insisted people take Sundays off to rest and recharge. Scientists fished for trout in nearby streams, or climbed mountains and disc…"-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
7. 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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8. Sing, Unburied, Sing
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more
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9. Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
By: Lois Lowry
3.80
Format: 245 pages,
In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future worl… read more
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10. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
11. The Great Divorce
By: C.S. Lewis
4.31
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more
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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
12. Mary Emma & Company (Little Britches, #4)
By: Ralph Moody , Tran Mawicke
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin… read more
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13. Phantastes
By: George MacDonald
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. L… read more
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14. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
15. Echo
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himsel… read more
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16. Letters from Father Christmas
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more
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17. 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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"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
18. 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)
19. Ourselves (Original Homeschooling #4)
By: Charlotte M. Mason
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
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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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"...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
21. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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22. Waiting on the Word
By: Malcolm Guite
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Advent is a season of waiting and anticipation in which the waiting itself is strangely rich and fu… read more
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23. Inside Out & Back Again
By: Thanhhà Lại
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Hardcover
For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of… read more
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24. Parents and Children (Original Homeschooling #2)
By: Charlotte M. Mason
3.94
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
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25. Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History
By: Richard M. Hannula
3.00
Format: 9 pages,
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26. The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)
By: S.D. Smith
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Perfect Paperback
Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake t… read more
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"Was Father getting sadder, or was she just getting old enough to see it?"-S.D. Smith, The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)
"You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can't change what's true."-S.D. Smith, The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)
27. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear
By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo
3.60
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kid… read more
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28. Richard Halliburton's Second Book of Marvels: The Orient
By: Richard Halliburton
4.45
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Travel / History / Middle Eastern & India region culture. Early 20th century American travel writer… read more
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"Lifted up into this holy realm, on the white crown of the magic peak, we too stand there, as moved, as lost in rapture, as the kneeling, praying pilgrims. And as we watch the miracle of the morning u…"-Richard Halliburton, Richard Halliburton's Second Book of Marvels: The Orient
"When I was a boy I once received, as a Christmas gift, a beautiful book of oriental fairy tales. The stories all took place in India. They told of mighty kings riding to war on elephants; of marble p…"-Richard Halliburton, Richard Halliburton's Second Book of Marvels: The Orient
29. In the Days of Queen Victoria
By: Eva March Tappan
3.73
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more
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30. America Grows Up: A History for Peter
By: Gerald White Johnson
4.00
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
This is the second book of three in the History for Peter series by Gerald White Johnson, written e… read more
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