15 Best fiction books like The Letter on the Tree by Natalie Savage Carlson

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The Letter on the Tree

By: Natalie Savage Carlson

4.07

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

A young French Canadian boy, who wants an accordion more than anything, attaches a note telling of …

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Cover of Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life by Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

1. Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life

By: Louis Zamperini , David Rensin

4.27

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Champion. Survivor.Hero. Legend. Completed just two days before Louis Zamperini's death at age 9… read more

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"I was raised to face any challenge."

-Louis Zamperini, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life

"God knew my needs and took care accordingly."

-Louis Zamperini, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life

"To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind."

-Louis Zamperini, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life

"It was all in His hands now - as it had always been."

-Louis Zamperini, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life

Cover of Along Came a Dog by Maurice Sendak, Meindert DeJong

2. Along Came a Dog

By: Maurice Sendak , Meindert DeJong

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The friendship of a little red hen and a homeless dog who appoints himself her protector ‘is treate… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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3. The Railway Children

By: E. Nesbit

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

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4. Pat the Bunny

By: Dorothy Kunhardt

4.08

Format: 20 pages, Board Book

The timeless children’s classic full of interactive fun—a perfect gift for new babies and first bir… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall

5. Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , Stephen Wall

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Hurry Home, Candy by Maurice Sendak, Meindert DeJong

6. Hurry Home, Candy

By: Maurice Sendak , Meindert DeJong

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The dog was lost. He had no name, and no one to love him. He has only the silent, empty countryside… read more

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  • novels
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope. by Christopher Yuan, Angela Yuan, Kay Warren

7. Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope.

By: Christopher Yuan , Angela Yuan , Kay Warren

3.76

Format: None pages,

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8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

By: Betty Smith

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty S… read more

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9. Surprised by Oxford

By: Carolyn Weber

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more

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10. 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
  • fiction
"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

11. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire #6)

By: Anthony Trollope , None

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes… read more

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12. The Wheel on the School

By: Maurice Sendak , Meindert DeJong

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Why do the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina,… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"... but first to dream and then to do - isn't that the way to make a dream come true?"

-Maurice Sendak, The Wheel on the School

"That's the trouble with being twins - if you don't know something, you don't know it double."

-Maurice Sendak, The Wheel on the School

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13. 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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  • childrens
  • 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

Cover of More All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #3) by Sydney Taylor, Mary Stevens

14. More All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #3)

By: Sydney Taylor , Mary Stevens

4.24

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the third book of Sydney Taylor's classic children's series, Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny di… read more

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

15. 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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  • childrens
  • fiction
"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)

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16. Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

17. 84, Charing Cross Road

By: Helene Hanff

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more

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18. Pippi Longstocking

By: Astrid Lindgren , Louis S. Glanzman , Florence Lamborn

4.41

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. Tommy and his sister Annika h… read more

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19. Anything Is Possible

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.20

Format: None pages,

Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more

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

20. 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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  • childrens
  • 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)

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

-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)

21. The lion in the box

By: Marguerite de Angeli

3.79

Format: 1 pages,

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22. All Things Bright and Beautiful

By: James Herriot

4.00

Format: None pages,

"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --Associated Pre… read more

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Cover of Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

23. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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24. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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  • childrens
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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25. A Grief Observed

By: C.S. Lewis

4.22

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more

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"Time itself is one more name for death."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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26. The Star That Always Stays

By: Anna Rose Johnson

4.08

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

When bright and spirited Norvia moves from the country to the city, she has to live by one new rule… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus by Andrew Klavan

27. The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus

By: Andrew Klavan

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Follow Andrew Klavan to a deeper, richer understanding of the words of Jesus. Andrew Klavan believe… read more

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28. Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years

By: Ellen Vaughn

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a remote Amazonian indigenous pe… read more

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29. The Keeper of Hidden Books

By: Madeline Martin

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming story about the power of books to bring us together, inspired by the true story of t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Sex and the City of God: A Memoir of Love and Longing by Carolyn Weber

30. Sex and the City of God: A Memoir of Love and Longing

By: Carolyn Weber

4.25

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

When Carolyn Weber moved to Oxford University to study, she didn't expect to find God there. But sh… read more

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31. The Letter on the Tree

By: Natalie Savage Carlson

4.07

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

A young French Canadian boy, who wants an accordion more than anything, attaches a note telling of … read more

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  • childrens
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13 Top childrens books like The Letter on the Tree by Natalie Savage Carlson

Transform Your Habits

Along Came a Dog

Maurice Sendak , Meindert DeJong

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Pat the Bunny

Dorothy Kunhardt

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Hurry Home, Candy

Maurice Sendak , Meindert DeJong

3.97

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Transform Your Habits

The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)

Elizabeth Enright

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)

Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-Tacy, #2)

Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Heaven to Betsy (Betsy-Tacy, #5)

Maud Hart Lovelace , Vera Neville

3.82

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