The Adventures of Prickly Porky
By: Thornton W. Burgess
4.10
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
There's a big mystery brewing among the animals of the Green Forest — and it's all because of a str…
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1. 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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- classics
- childrens
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"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
2. Pinocchio
By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi
3.85
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more
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- classics
- childrens
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"Hunger is the best cook."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
3. 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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- classics
- childrens
- fiction
4. The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
By: Charles de Lint , Charles Vess
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
Lillian Kindred spends her days exploring the Tanglewood Forest she imagines full of fairies. She s… read more
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- animals
- fantasy
- childrens
- fiction
5. The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults.… read more
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- classics
- childrens
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- fantasy
"My sister Susan,"-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
"Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?"-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
". . .[W]e have all been blind. We are only beginning to see. . . ."-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
"But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
6. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4.27
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more
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- classics
"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
7. Jane of Lantern Hill
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
For as long as she could remember, Jane Stuart and her mother lived with her grandmother in a drear… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
8. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
By: Andrew Peterson
4.33
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Once, in a cottage above the cliffs on the Dark Sea of Darkness, there lived three children and the… read more
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- fantasy
- childrens
- fiction
- adventure
"Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"Esben Igiby was seeping into Janner’s thoughts, and there was no way to seal the leak."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"But other than the cruel fangs and the constant threat of death and torture, there wasn't much to fear in Skree."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather b…"-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
9. Sir Nigel
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War, by the British author Sir Arthur… read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
- adventure
10. 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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- classics
- childrens
- fiction
11. Minn of the Mississippi
By: Holling Clancy Holling
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
The history of the Mississippi River Valley is told in text and pictures through the adventures of … read more
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- childrens
12. 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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- classics
- childrens
- fiction
- juvenile
"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
13. The Magic Faraway Tree (The Faraway Tree, #2)
By: Enid Blyton
4.29
Format: 177 pages, Paperback
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- childrens
- adventure
- fiction
- fantasy
"No one is allowed to live here unless they first lose their tempers and then get permission from me to take a house"-Enid Blyton, The Magic Faraway Tree (The Faraway Tree, #2)
14. 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
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- fantasy
"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)
15. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more
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- childrens
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- juvenile
"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
16. 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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17. The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1)
By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary , Louis Darling
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Pb-pb-b-b-b. Pb-pb-b-b-b." With these magic vocables, Ralph the mouse revs up a dream come true--h… read more
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18. Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing--his very own… read more
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19. Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)
By: Charlotte M. Mason
4.53
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
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"Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood."-Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)
20. Raising Emotionally Strong Boys: Tools Your Son Can Build On for Life
By: David Thomas
4.58
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
About those meltdowns, blowups, and one-word answers . . . Some say that's just how boys are--pr… read more
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21. The Adventures of Prickly Porky
By: Thornton W. Burgess
4.10
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
There's a big mystery brewing among the animals of the Green Forest — and it's all because of a str… read more
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- animals
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- fiction
- fantasy
- juvenile
