9 best-selling middle grade books like Don Quixote by Michael Burgan

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Don Quixote

By: Michael Burgan

3.70

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Retells Cervantes' story of the adventures of an eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his compan…

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1. Old Yeller

By: Fred Gipson

4.10

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

At first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving r… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids."

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

"You're getting to be a big boy; and while I'm gone, you'll be the man of the family. I want you to act like one. You take care of Mama and Little Arliss. You look after the work and don't wait around…"

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

"Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that…"

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

"That was as rough a thing as I ever heard tell of happening to a boy. And I'm mighty proud to learn how my boy stood up to it. You couldn't ask any more of a grown man... It's not a thing you can for…"

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

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2. The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House, #2)

By: Mary Pope Osborne , Salvatore Murdocca

3.91

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Peacocks for dinner and boys in skirts? That's what Jack and Annie find when the Magic Tree Hous… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. 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
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • 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

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4. The Attributes of God

By: Arthur W. Pink

4.51

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

This classic work of Arthur W. Pink invites readers to discover the truth about seventeen attribute… read more

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"Grace is that in God which brings into favor one justly in disfavor."

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

"What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends "

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

"What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love."

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

"We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy."

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

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5. Lies Young Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free, Companion Guide

By: Erin Davis , Nancy Leigh DeMoss , Dannah Gresh

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Get the resource that helps you go deeper into the truths found in Lies Young Women Believe. The Co… read more

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6. Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full color ebook device, and in rich … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"The help will come,"

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"I don't want to hold you hand!"

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"Things never happen the same way twice."

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"And the feasts on the poop and the musicians."

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

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7. Where the Red Fern Grows

By: Wilson Rawls

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann—a boy and his two dogs... A loving threesome, they ranged the dar… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."

-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

"I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too."

-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

"I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it woukdn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too"."

-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

"What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back…"

-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

8. 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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9. The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

3.91

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on Lo… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

10. The Odyssey (Wishbone Classics, #2)

By: Homer , Joanne Mattern

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

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11. Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

By: Eleanor H. Porter

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Pollyanna's eternal optimism has made her one of the most beloved characters in American literature… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live."

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"„ în loc de a scoate la iveală greșelile unui om, vorbește-i de calitățile sale încearcă să-l scoți din făgașul obiceiurilor lui rele, deșteaptă eul său cel mai bun, adevăratul său eu care poate îndr…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - '…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in th…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

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12. Pictures of Hollis Woods

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby's name is an artist is… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"There are some people who don't even know enough to fall in love with the water."

-Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods

"Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it,…"

-Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods

Cover of The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5) by C.S. Lewis

13. The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"Do not dare not to dare."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"No one can teach riding so well as a horse"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Even a walk will get us somewhere sometime."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

14. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)

By: Robert C. O'Brien

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarter… read more

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15. My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)

By: Jean Craighead George

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the soli… read more

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Cover of Esther: The Hidden Hand of God (Flourish Bible Study) by Lydia Brownback

16. Esther: The Hidden Hand of God (Flourish Bible Study)

By: Lydia Brownback

4.47

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

"Here is a study intent on making disciples who know and worship their God." --Jen Wilkin, Bible… read more

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Cover of Don Quixote by Michael Burgan

17. Don Quixote

By: Michael Burgan

3.70

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Retells Cervantes' story of the adventures of an eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his compan… read more

Similar categories in Michael Burgan's Don Quixote book and Michael Burgan's Don Quixote

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Super Adventures of Wishbone, #2)

By: Carla Jablonski

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Wishbone imagines he is Icabod Crane read more

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  • childrens

10 must-read fiction books like Don Quixote by Michael Burgan

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Old Yeller

Fred Gipson

4.10

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The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House, #2)

Mary Pope Osborne , Salvatore Murdocca

3.91

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James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

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Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

C.S. Lewis

3.98

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14 best-selling fiction books like Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1) by Eleanor H. Porter

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Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)

Louisa May Alcott

4.02

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The Railway Children

E. Nesbit

4.02

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An Old-Fashioned Girl

Louisa May Alcott

4.09

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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

L.M. Montgomery

4.31

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