8 best-selling historical books like Songbird by Nancy Lohr

Cover of Songbird by Nancy Lohr

Songbird

By: Nancy Lohr

3.67

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Young Truxton Pilcher roams the forests around the British colony of Williamsburg and delights in i…

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Cover of Mountain Born (Mountain Born, #1) by Elizabeth Yates, Nora S. Unwin, Nora Spicer Unwin

1. Mountain Born (Mountain Born, #1)

By: Elizabeth Yates , Nora S. Unwin , Nora Spicer Unwin

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates, she used her experiences from her early years of living on her… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical fiction
"There are many things in the world. If we care for them all a little, we won't feel the hurt too much when we part with one."

-Elizabeth Yates, Mountain Born (Mountain Born, #1)

"Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets."

-Elizabeth Yates, Mountain Born (Mountain Born, #1)

Cover of Bound for Oregon by R.W. Alley, James Watling, Jean Van Leeuwen

2. Bound for Oregon

By: R.W. Alley , James Watling , Jean Van Leeuwen

3.86

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

With only a guide book to show them the way, the Todd family sets out from their Arkansas home on a… read more

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  • historical
  • childrens
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Family Under the Bridge by Garth Williams, Natalie Savage Carlson

3. The Family Under the Bridge

By: Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical fiction
"You're afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if they find out you have one."

-Garth Williams, The Family Under the Bridge

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4. The Tinker's Daughter: A Story Based on the Life of the Young Mary Bunyan (Daughters of the Faith Series)

By: Wendy Lawton

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress, only mentioned one of his children in his memoirs: Mary.… read more

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  • historical
  • christian
  • childrens
  • historical fiction
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5. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another mem… read more

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  • childrens
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6. The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)

By: Jon Klassen , Maryrose Wood

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place are no ordinary children, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordi… read more

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  • historical
  • childrens
  • historical fiction
"All books are judged by their covers until they are read."

-Jon Klassen, The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)

"I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that."

-Jon Klassen, The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)

"It makes no difference what you wear, really. I'll put you in a dark grey. I believe I have some left over from a funeral." says the dressmaker."

-Jon Klassen, The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)

"If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherri…"

-Jon Klassen, The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)

7. Mystery of the Silver Coins (Viking Quest, #2)

By: Lois Walfrid Johnson

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this second installment of the Viking Questseries, Bree finds herself in a physical and spiritua… read more

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8. Mr. Pipes: And Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation

By: Michael J. McHugh , Douglas Bond

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

This novel is the second book in the Mr. Pipes series which provides teens with an engaging study o… read more

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9. 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
"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

10. Ink on His Fingers

By: Louise A. Vernon , None

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Johann Gutenberg is working on printing the first Bible with type. Twelve-year-old Hans Dunne works… read more

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11. Twenty and Ten

By: William Pène du Bois , Claire Huchet Bishop

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During the Nazi occupation of France, twenty ordinary French kids in a boarding school agree to hid… read more

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12. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

By: Kate DiCamillo , K.G. Campbell

3.88

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequence… read more

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  • childrens
"So many miracles have not yet happened."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble"

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"I love your round head, the brilliant green, the watching blue, these letters, this world, you. I am very, very hungry."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

13. Summer of the Monkeys

By: Wilson Rawls

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

The last thing a fourteen-year-old boy expects to find along an old Ozark river bottom is a tree fu… read more

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14. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

By: Jean Lee Latham

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to … read more

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15. Amos Fortune, Free Man

By: Elizabeth Yates , Nora S. Unwin

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A Newbery Medal Winner When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave trade… read more

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16. Morningstar of the Reformation

By: Andy Thomson , None

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Wycliffe (1328-84) pursued his vision of an English Bible for the common man. A fictionalized … read more

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17. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

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  • childrens
"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

18. The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

By: Sally Clarkson , Sarah Clarkson

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

How to make home your family's favorite place to be . . . all year long. Does your home sometimes f… read more

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19. The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart

By: Barbara Kathleen Nickel

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mix of historical fact and fiction, this novel explores Nannerl's feelings as the accolades go to… read more

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20. Leonardo da Vinci

By: Diane Stanley

4.06

Format: 340 pages,

read more

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21. 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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22. A Place to Hang the Moon

By: Kate Albus

4.57

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of World War II, Anna, Edmund, and William are evacuated from London to li… read more

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  • historical
  • childrens
  • historical fiction
"The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

Cover of Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by Jinger Duggar Vuolo

23. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo

3.60

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kid… read more

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  • christian
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24. A Stranger's Game

By: Colleen Coble

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A gripping new stand-alone novel from USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble.… read more

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  • christian
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25. When We Had Wings

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses station… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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26. A Place to Land

By: Lauren K. Denton

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A hidden past isn’t past at all. Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sug… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of John Paul Jones: The Pirate Patriot (833) by Armstrong Sperry

27. John Paul Jones: The Pirate Patriot (833)

By: Armstrong Sperry

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A classic biography of John Paul Jones for young readers in a new, illustrated edition. Called a … read more

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  • historical
Cover of Forbidden Gates by Denise Williamson

28. Forbidden Gates

By: Denise Williamson

3.97

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Forbidden Gates is historical fiction by Denise Williamson, set in Jerusalem in the first century. … read more

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  • historical fiction
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29. The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh

By: Margaret Duncan Kelly

3.94

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Relates the story of Raleigh from his boyhood days on the coast of Devonshire, to his exploits in I… read more

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30. Songbird

By: Nancy Lohr

3.67

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Young Truxton Pilcher roams the forests around the British colony of Williamsburg and delights in i… read more

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  • historical
  • christian
  • childrens
  • historical fiction

11 best-selling childrens books like Songbird by Nancy Lohr

Transform Your Habits

Mountain Born (Mountain Born, #1)

Elizabeth Yates , Nora S. Unwin , Nora Spicer Unwin

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Bound for Oregon

R.W. Alley , James Watling , Jean Van Leeuwen

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Family Under the Bridge

Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Tinker's Daughter: A Story Based on the Life of the Young Mary Bunyan (Daughters of the Faith Series)

Wendy Lawton

3.96

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8 Top historical fiction books like Forbidden Gates by Denise Williamson

Transform Your Habits

Bound for Oregon

R.W. Alley , James Watling , Jean Van Leeuwen

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Tinker's Daughter: A Story Based on the Life of the Young Mary Bunyan (Daughters of the Faith Series)

Wendy Lawton

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine, #1)

Marita Conlon-McKenna , Donald Teskey

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Accidental Voyage: Discovering Hymns of the Early Centuries

Douglas Bond

4.09

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