7 must-read school books like First Studies of Plant Life by George Francis Atkinson

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First Studies of Plant Life

By: George Francis Atkinson

3.67

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge…

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Cover of Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Binney Shippen

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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  • nonfiction
  • science
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2. The Holy War

By: John Bunyan

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"The Holy War," John Bunyan's fourth work of major importance, appeared in 1682. Although "The Pilg… read more

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"Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul."

-John Bunyan, The Holy War

"Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Mansoul…"

-John Bunyan, The Holy War

"O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood of …"

-John Bunyan, The Holy War

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3. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is a lively, spellbinding acc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Never confuse Motion with Action."

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright"

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"When the well is dry we know the value of water"

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"...there will be sleeping enough in the grave...."

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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4. 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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"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

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5. Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific In A Raft

By: Thor Heyerdahl

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Five men in search of a mythical hero journey from Peru to Polynesia in this classic account of nau… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Son (The Giver, #4) by Lois Lowry

6. Son (The Giver, #4)

By: Lois Lowry

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a s… read more

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7. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

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8. A Chemical History of a Candle

By: Michael Faraday

3.75

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • school
  • science
Cover of Messenger (The Giver, #3) by Lois Lowry

9. Messenger (The Giver, #3)

By: Lois Lowry

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Messengeris the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestsell… read more

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10. 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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11. Whatever Happened to Justice? Revised Edition

By: Richard J. Maybury , Jane A. Williams

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Whatever Happened to Justice? explains the Legal Model and explores America s legal heritage. This … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • school
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12. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)

By: Josephine Tey

3.95

Format: None pages,

Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more

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13. Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Laura Ingalls . . . . . . the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books. P… read more

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14. The Warden and the Wolf King (The Wingfeather Saga #4)

By: None , Andrew Peterson

3.90

Format: 205 pages,

All winter long, people in the Green Hollows have prepared for a final battle with Gnag the Nameles… read more

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15. The Mystery of the Periodic Table

By: Benjamin Wiker , Jeanne Bendick , Benjamin D. Wiker

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leads the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on the trail of the elemen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • school
  • science
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16. Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)

By: Arthur Ransome

4.01

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for… read more

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"Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown."

-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)

"But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforti…"

-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)

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17. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

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  • school
"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

18. Joan of Arc

By: Mark Twain

3.81

Format: 263 pages,

"I like Joan of Arcbest of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… read more

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19. Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

By: Richard J. Maybury

5.00

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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20. For the Children's Sake

By: Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

4.44

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Every parent and teacher wants to give their children the best education possible. Everyone would l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • school
"Pupils whose foundations have been deeply laid on books and things, using narration to lock their knowledge in place, and who learn not for marks and prizes but because learning is its own reward... …"

-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For the Children's Sake

"No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country,…"

-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For the Children's Sake

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. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington

By: Richard Brookhiser

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A revisionist biography of George Washington chronicling his quarter-century career in public life,… read more

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23. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

By: John Fleischman

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was… read more

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24. Are You Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused?

By: Richard J. Maybury

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

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25. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more

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26. 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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  • nonfiction
Cover of Know and Tell: The Art of Narration by Karen  Glass

27. Know and Tell: The Art of Narration

By: Karen Glass

4.52

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Narration, the art of telling, has been used as a pedagogical tool since ancient times. Over one hu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Northwind

By: Gary Paulsen

3.58

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

The story of a young person's battle to stay alive against the odds, where the high seas meet a coa… read more

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29. Rural Hours

By: Susan Fenimore Cooper

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Rural Hours (1850) is one of the earliest pieces of American nature writing and the first by a woma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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30. First Studies of Plant Life

By: George Francis Atkinson

3.67

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • school
Cover of Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell (Photobiographies) by Tom L. Matthews

31. Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell (Photobiographies)

By: Tom L. Matthews

4.12

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback—National Geographic Children's Books presents the award-winning photobiography of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • school
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4.39

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Jeanne DuPrau

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Eddie Waters

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