Sebastian Bach, The Boy from Thuringia
By: Opal Wheeler
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
This is the first complete life of Bach ever written for children. Every important incident is ment…
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1. The Robe
By: Lloyd C. Douglas
4.23
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest t… read more
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- historical
"Lumea nu merită sacrificiul de a trăi pentru ea, cu atât mai puțin de a muri."-Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe
"So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it."-Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe
"Cauza necazurilor noastre nu se află în jilțul guvernului, ci în imediata apropiere, în trib, în familie, în noi înșine."-Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe
"E greu să-ți imaginezi lumea fără un creator, dar prefer să nu-mi închipui că faptele oamenilor sunt inspirate de ființe supranaturale. Îmi place mai mult să cred că oamenii și-au inventat brutalitat…"-Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe
2. Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
By: Ralph Moody
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Thr… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- biography
- childrens
"There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. There are black men and white men and yellow men and red men, but nothing counts except whether they're honest men or dish…"-Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
"You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mar…"-Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
3. 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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- childrens
"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)
4. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the pra… read more
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- historical
- childrens
"Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"When gloomy clouds across the sky Cast shadows o'er the land, Bright rays of hope illumine my path, For Jesus holds my hand."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"All day the storm lasted. The windows were white and the wind never stopped howling and screaming. It was pleasant in the warm house. Laura and Mary did their lessons, then Pa played the fiddle while…"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
5. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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6. 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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- historical
- childrens
7. A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum
4.23
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here. Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddingt… read more
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- childrens
"I'm not a criminal,"-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
"[Paddington] looked up to see that Mrs Brown had been joined by a little girl, with laughing blue eyes and long, fair hair."-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
8. Viking Adventure
By: Clyde Robert Bulla , Douglas Gorsline
2.78
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
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- historical
- childrens
9. 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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- historical
- childrens
10. Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more
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11. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
By: Margaret Sidney
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Five Little Peppers and How They Grewwas originally serialized in an 1880 edition of Wide Awake, a … read more
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- childrens
12. 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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- historical
- childrens
13. 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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- childrens
"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)
14. Homer Price
By: Robert McCloskey
4.09
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more
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- childrens
"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
15. A Girl of the Limberlost (Limberlost, #2)
By: Gene Stratton-Porter
3.80
Format: None pages,
Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observatio… read more
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16. George Washington
By: Ingri d'Aulaire , Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
3.89
Format: 384 pages,
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17. The Good Master
By: Kate Seredy
4.14
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his fath… read more
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- childrens
18. Augustus Caesar's World
By: Genevieve Foster
3.11
Format: 216 pages,
Considered the innovator of "horizontal history," Genevieve Foster became frustrated when her two s… read more
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19. 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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- historical
- childrens
"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
20. Mandy
By: Julie Andrews Edwards , Johanna Westerman
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Hardcover
The magic of finding a home Mandy, a ten-year-old orphan, dreams of a place to call her own. Escapi… read more
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21. 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
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"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)
22. Pagoo
By: Holling Clancy Holling , None
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An intricate study of tide pool life is presented in text and pictures through the story of Pagoo, … read more
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23. Laddie: A True Blue Story
By: Gene Stratton-Porter
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
Loosely based on Stratton-Porter's own childhood, Laddie is a double tale -- the classic poor-boy/r… read more
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24. A Place to Hang the Moon
By: Kate Albus
4.57
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of World War II, Anna, Edmund, and William are evacuated from London to li… read more
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"The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
25. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
By: Russ Ramsey
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we un… read more
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"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
26. The Three Billy Goats Gruff
By: Mac Barnett
4.34
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Bi… read more
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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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28. The Hiding Place: a Graphic Novel
By: Corrie ten Boom
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
It's World War II. Darkness has fallen over the world as the Nazis spread fear and hatred. No… read more
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29. Epic: An Around-the-World Journey through Christian History
By: Tim Challies
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Each generation suffers from self-obsession, and we do well to keep one eye on the past, to conside… read more
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30. The Bletchley Riddle
By: Ruta Sepetys
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Shein… read more
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31. Sebastian Bach, The Boy from Thuringia
By: Opal Wheeler
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
This is the first complete life of Bach ever written for children. Every important incident is ment… read more
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- biography
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- biography memoir
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