9 Best childrens books like Stopping to Home by Lea Wait

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Stopping to Home

By: Lea Wait

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

What do you do when you don't have a home or a family to call your own anymore? Eleven-year-old Abi…

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1. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

By: Elizabeth George Speare

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Newbery Medal Winner (1959) Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the col… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical fiction
"People are afraid of things they don’t understand."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"She and Prudence sat on a cool grassy carpet. A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child’s face."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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2. 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
Cover of Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

3. Mara, Daughter of the Nile

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom. In order to gain it, she finds her… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136 by Kristiana Gregory

4. Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136

By: Kristiana Gregory

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old Eleanor lives in a palace in Poitier, France, with her father, Count William of A… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical fiction
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5. The Bronze Bow

By: Elizabeth George Speare

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Sa… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical fiction
"the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

"It is the hate that is the enemy. Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only thing stronger than hate is love."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

Cover of The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

6. The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2)

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her moth… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds

7. The Matchlock Gun

By: Walter D. Edmonds

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Newbery Medal Winner In 1756, New York State was still a British colony, and the French and the I… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Story of King Arthur & His Knights (Classic Starts Series) by Arthur Pober, Howard Pyle, Tania Zamorsky, Dan Andreasen

8. The Story of King Arthur & His Knights (Classic Starts Series)

By: Arthur Pober , Howard Pyle , Tania Zamorsky , Dan Andreasen

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Hardcover

From the sword in the stone and the founding of Camelot to the famed Round Table and the Lake of En… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical fiction
Cover of The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

9. The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.49

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaime… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical fiction
"I don't want to just survive"

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"This book made me love reading."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"Saying something stupid doesn't make you stupid," Susan said. " Luckily for all of us."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"We'd escaped. Mam, Hitlers bombs, my one-room prison. Everything. Crazy or not, I was free."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

Cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, E.W. Kemble, John Seelye, Guy Cardwell

10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more

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  • historical fiction
"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"He had a dream and it shot him."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"All right, then, I'll go to hell."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

11. 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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12. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

By: Mildred D. Taylor

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical fiction
"Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you—rotting you out."

-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

"It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there’s gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not."

-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

"As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but h…"

-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

"Biting the hand that feeds you, that's what you're doing Mary Logan, biting the hand that feeds you.' Again Mama laughed, 'If that's the case, Daisy, I don't think I need that little bit of food.' Wi…"

-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

13. Robin Hood

By: Annie Ingle

4.50

Format: 232 pages,

Life in Sherwood Forest has never been livelier than with this selection of tales of the fun-loving… read more

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14. Jefferson's Sons

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's slave children Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thom… read more

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15. The Orphan Collector

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

4.24

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia… read more

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  • historical fiction
"May God forgive you for what you’ve done."

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector

"Obey the laws and wear the gauze, protect your jaws from septic paws."

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector

Cover of Stopping to Home by Lea Wait

16. Stopping to Home

By: Lea Wait

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

What do you do when you don't have a home or a family to call your own anymore? Eleven-year-old Abi… read more

Similar categories in Lea Wait's Stopping to Home book and Lea Wait's Stopping to Home

  • childrens
  • historical fiction

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Elizabeth George Speare

4.02

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Eloise Jarvis McGraw

3.16

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Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136

Kristiana Gregory

4.40

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Elizabeth George Speare

4.01

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C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes

4.28

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William Golding

4.20

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The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

3.80

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Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth

3.85

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