14 must-read fiction books like Freddy and the Men from Mars (Freddy the Pig Series) by Walter Rollin Brooks

Cover of Freddy and the Men from Mars (Freddy the Pig Series) by Walter Rollin Brooks

Freddy and the Men from Mars (Freddy the Pig Series)

By: Walter Rollin Brooks

4.17

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

This news wouldn't have disturbed Freddy and the other barn animals had not the paper further state…

If you liked the fiction plot in Freddy and the Men from Mars (Freddy the Pig Series) by Walter Rollin Brooks , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

1. The Grand Sophy

By: Georgette Heyer

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"You are shameless!"

-Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

"Mr. Rivenhall said to Sophy, “If this is your doing—!"

-Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

"Do you like pets better than toys and books? I always did, so I thought very likely you would too."

-Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

"I never indulge commonplace thoughts," said Sir Vincent... "Not, at all events, in relation to the Grand Sophy."

-Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

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2. The Halloween Tree

By: Ray Bradbury

3.78

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

A fast-moving, eerie tale set on Halloween night... Eight costumed boys running to meet their fr… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over; and joyful bees swarmed countrysides to sting maiden ladies."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

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3. 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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  • classics
  • 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)

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4. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Cover of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

5. 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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  • classics
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Nightbirds on Nantucket (The Wolves Chronicles, #3) by Joan Aiken

6. Nightbirds on Nantucket (The Wolves Chronicles, #3)

By: Joan Aiken

4.13

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants no… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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7. The Remains of the Day

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

4.14

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here. In the summer of 1956, St… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

"One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

"If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

"شاید بهتر بود خداوند مارا هم مثل گیاهان خلق می‌کرد، یعنی پایمان محکم توی زمین باشد. آن‌وقت هیچ‌کدام از این کثافت‌کاری مربوط به جنگ و مرز و این چیزها اصلاً پیش نمی‌آمد."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

Cover of Westmark (Westmark #1) by Lloyd Alexander

8. Westmark (Westmark #1)

By: Lloyd Alexander

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Theo agrees to print a traveling showman's pamphlet, he only thinks of the money it will bring… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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9. The Moonstone

By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Illyrian Adventure (Vesper Holly #1) by Lloyd Alexander

10. The Illyrian Adventure (Vesper Holly #1)

By: Lloyd Alexander

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's 1872, and adventurous Vesper Holly and her guardian set out for the tiny country of Illyria, o… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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11. The Witches

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

This is not a fairy tale. This is about realwitches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real w… read more

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  • classics
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

12. The Sword in the Stone (The Once and Future King, #1)

By: T.H. White

3.43

Format: 331 pages,

Abridged Junior Classics version of T.H. White The Sword in the Stone, revised in The Once and Futu… read more

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13. The 101 Dalmatians (The Hundred and One Dalmatians, #1)

By: Dodie Smith , Michael Dooling

4.00

Format: None pages,

From the back of the case: "Puppies and more puppies! How will they all escape the evil Cruella de … read more

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14. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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15. The BFG

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.23

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It… read more

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  • classics
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"let your love out"

-Roald Dahl, The BFG

"Don't gobblefunk around with words."

-Roald Dahl, The BFG

"You is getting nosier than a parker."

-Roald Dahl, The BFG

"Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country."

-Roald Dahl, The BFG

16. Mary Poppins Comes Back (Mary Poppins, #2)

By: P.L. Travers , Mary Shepard

4.10

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Ban… read more

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17. Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more

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18. Mary Poppins Opens the Door (Mary Poppins, #3)

By: P.L. Travers , Mary Shepard , Agnes Sims

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Hardcover

From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Ban… read more

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19. The Gawgon and the Boy

By: Lloyd Alexander

3.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

A riotousy funny and deeply personal story of wonder, discovery and friendship, full of eccentric c… read more

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20. Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)

By: E. Nesbit

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will … read more

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21. A Light in the Attic

By: Shel Silverstein

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all… read more

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22. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more

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23. Basil of Baker Street (Basil of Baker Street, #1)

By: Paul Galdone , Eve Titus

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Basil--famous sleuth of mousedom--lived in the cellar of Sherlock Holmes' house. A devoted admirer … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction

24. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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25. The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)

By: Lloyd Alexander

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was a… read more

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Cover of Freddy and the Men from Mars (Freddy the Pig Series) by Walter Rollin Brooks

26. Freddy and the Men from Mars (Freddy the Pig Series)

By: Walter Rollin Brooks

4.17

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

This news wouldn't have disturbed Freddy and the other barn animals had not the paper further state… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • science fiction

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Georgette Heyer

4.17

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3.78

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Ralph Moody

4.27

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4.06

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