6 best-selling adventure books like The Rose Round by Meriol Trevor

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The Rose Round

By: Meriol Trevor

3.99

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

13-year old Matt is spending the holidays at the dilapidated Woodhall mansion where his spirited st…

If you liked the adventure plot in The Rose Round by Meriol Trevor , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green, Arthur Hall

1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

By: Roger Lancelyn Green , Arthur Hall

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw… read more

Similar categories in Roger Lancelyn Green's The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics) book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • historical fiction
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?"

-Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

"Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again."

-Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

Cover of Pinocchio by John Boyne, Unknown, Monteiro Lobato, Carlo Collodi

2. Pinocchio

By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Pinocchio book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Hunger is the best cook."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

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3. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

Similar categories in Wendell Berry's Hannah Coulter book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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4. Hittite Warrior

By: Joanne Williamson

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Judea has always been the crossroads and battlefield of contending nations. It is no less so in thi… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Williamson's Hittite Warrior book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

5. 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

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1) by Robert Louis Stevenson

6. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1) book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • adventure
"And life is all a variorum, at the best."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

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7. 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

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • religion
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1) by Arthur Ransome

8. 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

Similar categories in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1) book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • historical fiction
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
"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)

9. The Phantom Tollbooth

By: Jules Feiffer , Norton Juster

4.20

Format: 24 pages,

Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click . Hailed as "a classic. .… read more

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10. King of the Golden City

By: None

3.46

Format: None pages,

Product Description: The King of the Golden City is a fascinating tale which breathes into the hear… read more

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11. 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

Similar categories in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Understood Betsy book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • childrens
  • 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

12. Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture

By: Anthony Esolen

2.88

Format: None pages,

What do you do when an entire civilization is crumbling around you? You do everything. This is a bo… read more

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

13. 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

Similar categories in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1) book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • 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)

14. Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

4.09

Format: 315 pages,

Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more

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Cover of Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh

15. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

Similar categories in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Cover of The Rose Round by Meriol Trevor

16. The Rose Round

By: Meriol Trevor

3.99

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

13-year old Matt is spending the holidays at the dilapidated Woodhall mansion where his spirited st… read more

Similar categories in Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round book and Meriol Trevor's The Rose Round

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • religion
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

12 must-read fiction books like The Rose Round by Meriol Trevor

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The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

Roger Lancelyn Green , Arthur Hall

4.07

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Pinocchio

John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

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Hannah Coulter

Wendell Berry

4.38

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Hittite Warrior

Joanne Williamson

3.33

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7 best-selling classics books like The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

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The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

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The Great Divorce

C.S. Lewis

4.31

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Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

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Orthodoxy

G.K. Chesterton

4.11

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