The Wombles at work
By: Elisabeth Beresford
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Classic and much loved characters brought back into print with a fresh new cover look and inside il…
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1. George's Marvellous Medicine
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
4.03
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered… read more
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2. 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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"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
3. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the pra… read more
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"Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"When gloomy clouds across the sky Cast shadows o'er the land, Bright rays of hope illumine my path, For Jesus holds my hand."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"All day the storm lasted. The windows were white and the wind never stopped howling and screaming. It was pleasant in the warm house. Laura and Mary did their lessons, then Pa played the fiddle while…"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
4. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.68
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie … read more
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"You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that."-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
"It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake."-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
"The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents."-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
"It's very difficult to phone people in China, Mr President,' said the Postmaster General. 'The country's so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number."-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
5. Magic by the Lake (Tales of Magic, #3)
By: Edward Eager , N.M. Bodecker
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
If Jane and Mark and Katharine and Martha had stopped to think, they might have ordered magic by th… read more
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6. The Boy Who Biked the World: On the Road to Africa (1)
By: Tom Morgan-Jones , Alastair Humphreys
4.15
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Discover Africa by bicycle in book one of a delightful children's adaptation of Alastair Humphrey's… read more
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7. The Dragonfly Pool
By: Eva Ibbotson
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school… read more
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"Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it."-Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool
"You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair."-Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool
8. A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum
4.23
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here. Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddingt… read more
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"I'm not a criminal,"-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
"[Paddington] looked up to see that Mrs Brown had been joined by a little girl, with laughing blue eyes and long, fair hair."-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
9. War Horse (War Horse, #1)
By: Michael Morpurgo
4.15
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
A powerful tale of war, redemption and a hero's journey.In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal wit… read more
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"cause when there's life there's still hope"-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
"I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less."-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
"Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other"-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
"If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer."-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, s… read more
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"I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement"-Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox
11. The Eagle of the Ninth
By: Rosemary Sutcliff
3.94
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
One of Rosemary Sutcliff's acclaimed books set in Roman Britain. The Eagle of the Ninth tells the s… read more
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"Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one."-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth
"And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said."-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth
"You could give a slave his freedom, but nothing could undo the fact that he had been a slave; and between him, a freed-man, and any free man who had never been unfree, there would still be a differen…"-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth
"Sometime about the year 117, the IXth Legion, which was stationed at Eburacum where York now stands, marched north to deal with a rising among the Caledonian tribes and was never heard of again... no…"-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth
12. Bedknob and Broomstick
By: Mary Norton
3.67
Format: 346 pages,
In The Magic Bedknob, Carey, Charles and Paul 6 find prim Miss Price injured by falling off her bro… read more
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13. The Trenches: Billy Stevens, The Western Front, 1914-1918
By: Jim Eldridge
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sixteen-year-old Billy Stevens joins the military to "kick the Kaiser back to Germany", he lies abo… read more
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14. A Little Princess
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Nancy Bond
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary … read more
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15. Shadows of the Workhouse
By: Jennifer Worth
4.00
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of E… read more
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16. 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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17. 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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"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
18. Das doppelte Lottchen
By: Erich Kästner , Walter Trier
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Luise, neun Jahre alt und ziemlich frech, muss den Sommer fern von Wien in einem Ferienheim verbrin… read more
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19. 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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"...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
20. No Name
By: Wilkie Collins , None
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Mr Vanstone's daughters are Nobody's Children'. Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the t… read more
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21. The Magic Finger
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.70
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted?To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To … read more
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"Just look at that beastly duck cooking at my stove!" Cried Mrs Gregg as she flew past the kitchen window. "How dare she!"-Roald Dahl, The Magic Finger
22. 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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23. The Abominables
By: Eva Ibbotson , Fiona Robinson
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Renowned literary great Eva Ibbotson delivers a final novel in her classic, much-loved style. A pre… read more
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24. A Boy Called Christmas
By: Matt Haig
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You are about to read the true story of Father Christmas. It is a story that proves that nothing is… read more
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25. Seven-Day Magic (Tales of Magic, #7)
By: Edward Eager , N.M. Bodecker
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A seven-day book of magic proves to be fractious for five children, who must learn the book's rules… read more
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26. The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot, #2)
By: Peter Brown
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown. S… read more
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27. The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot #3)
By: Peter Brown
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The action-packed third installment in Peter Brown's internationally bestselling The Wild Robot ser… read more
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28. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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29. The Wombles at work
By: Elisabeth Beresford
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Classic and much loved characters brought back into print with a fresh new cover look and inside il… read more
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