6 Best childrens books like The Strange Intruder (Adventure Library) by Arthur Catherall

Cover of The Strange Intruder (Adventure Library) by Arthur Catherall

The Strange Intruder (Adventure Library)

By: Arthur Catherall

3.64

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A normal day in the life of those who live on the small, rocky island of Mykines in the Faroes Isla…

If you liked the childrens plot in The Strange Intruder (Adventure Library) by Arthur Catherall , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton

1. The Time It Never Rained

By: Elmer Kelton

4.30

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the 1950s, West Texas suffered the longest drought in the memory of most men then living. By tha… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Ruth Rendell

2. Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell

4.14

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more

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  • fiction
"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for sh…"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

3. 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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  • fiction
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4. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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  • fiction
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Cover of No Flying in the House by Wallace Tripp, Betty Brock

5. No Flying in the House

By: Wallace Tripp , Betty Brock

4.47

Format: 310 pages,

Most little girls have parents to take care of them, but not Annabel Tippens.She has Gloria, a tiny… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
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6. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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  • fiction
  • adventure

7. The King of the Golden River

By: John Ruskin , None

3.44

Format: 326 pages,

Little gem of Victorian literature, written in 1842 and published in 1851, tells a tale of the two … read more

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8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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9. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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10. The Superteacher Project

By: Gordon Korman

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Gordon Korman, the bestselling author of Restart and The Unteachables, comes a hilarious new s… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"I understand," he announces finally. "It's because I'm‒different." Paul is amazed. "You learned that from the internet?" "Not directly Mr. Aidact explains. "But I accessed a database of books and mov…"

-Gordon Korman, The Superteacher Project

"Your jokes aren't even funny. What is this thing, anyway?' 'That's the beauty of it!' Oliver crows. 'It's nothing‒just some piece of junk from he supply closet. But you're freaking out because it cou…"

-Gordon Korman, The Superteacher Project

Cover of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

11. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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12. Words on Fire

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian … read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • adventure
"The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

Cover of Just Like That by Gary D. Schmidt

13. Just Like That

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.37

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene'… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
"It’s hard to figure out how a friendship begins, she thought. Maybe sometimes it’s because someone you thought you knew - and that you didn’t really - turns out to be a whole lot more like a friend t…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, Just Like That

"And Meryl Lee thought, I wonder how this happens. You live side by side for a while, and suddenly you realize you like living side by side, and you can’t imagine not living side by side because you’v…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, Just Like That

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14. The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.09

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

Three plucky women lift the spirits of home-front brides in wartime Britain, where clothes rationin… read more

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  • fiction
"Clothes do that sometimes. They have the power to make you into someone else. They can make anything seem possible."

-Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

"Sometimes we just need someone with a fresh perspective to hold up a mirror and show us who we really are – who we could become, if we put our minds to it."

-Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

"In a good family, you're loved, simply, for being you, and whatever happens, wherever you go, you will always know that you are loved. It doesn’t matter how successful you are, how beautiful, or how …"

-Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

Cover of Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by Catherine Pakaluk

15. Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

By: Catherine Pakaluk

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women. In the midst of a historic "birth d… read more

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Cover of Hope in the Valley by Mitali Perkins

16. Hope in the Valley

By: Mitali Perkins

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Can Pandita weave hope from the past into the present to heal herself, her family, and the future o… read more

Similar categories in Mitali Perkins's Hope in the Valley book and Arthur Catherall's The Strange Intruder (Adventure Library)

  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Strange Intruder (Adventure Library) by Arthur Catherall

17. The Strange Intruder (Adventure Library)

By: Arthur Catherall

3.64

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A normal day in the life of those who live on the small, rocky island of Mykines in the Faroes Isla… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Catherall's The Strange Intruder (Adventure Library) book and Arthur Catherall's The Strange Intruder (Adventure Library)

  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • adventure

13 must-read fiction books like The Strange Intruder (Adventure Library) by Arthur Catherall

Transform Your Habits

The Time It Never Rained

Elmer Kelton

4.30

None

Anthony Trollope

None

Transform Your Habits

Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell

4.14

Hard Times

Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny

4.33

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Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Something Like Home

Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Remember Us

Jacqueline Woodson

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Simon Sort of Says

Erin Bow

4.31

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