12 must-read fiction books like Fu-Dog by Rumer Godden

Cover of Fu-Dog by Rumer Godden

Fu-Dog

By: Rumer Godden

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of an English girl's search for her Chinese heritage. The embroidered satin Fu-Dog her gr…

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Cover of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

1. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

Cover of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

2. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

By: E.L. Konigsburg

3.76

Format: None pages,

When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from some… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult

3. Salem Falls

By: Jodi Picoult

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Jack buries his past, content to become the mysterious stranger who has appeared out of the blue. A… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner, Walter Trier

4. Emil and the Detectives

By: Erich Kästner , Walter Trier

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

If Mrs Tischbein had known the amazing adventures her son Emil would have in Berlin, she'd never ha… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"Die Stadt war so groß. Und Emil war so klein. Und kein Mensch wollte wissen, warum er kein Geld hatte, und warum er nicht wusste, wo er austeigen sollte. Vier Millionen Menschen lebten in Berlin und …"

-Erich Kästner, Emil and the Detectives

Cover of Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

5. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Calico Bush by Gail  Herman, Rachel Field, Allen Lewis

6. Calico Bush

By: Gail Herman , Rachel Field , Allen Lewis

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Left orphaned and alone in a strange country, thirteen-year-old Marguerite Ledoux has no choice but… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank, Alan Myers, Anna Brailovsky

7. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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  • fiction
"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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

8. 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

9. 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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Cover of The Long Winter (Little House, #6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

10. 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
  • fiction
"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)

11. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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12. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

By: John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill , Corrie ten Boom

3.81

Format: None pages,

At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell… read more

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13. 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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  • childrens
  • 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 The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids by Sarah       Mackenzie

14. The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

By: Sarah Mackenzie

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading alou… read more

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  • childrens
"What better education can we offer our children than the shaping of their hearts to love others as we have been loved by God ourselves?"

-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

"It is tempting to idolize certain aspects of education. We value good grades, high test scores, elite college degrees, and lucrative careers. But out obsession keeps us from remembering what educatio…"

-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

"Truth rises above literal facts... stories, especially fictional ones have the power to speak to the hearts of readers in a profound and lasting way. "Story has been the vehicle for truth for as long…"

-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

Cover of In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education by Karen Glass

15. In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

By: Karen Glass

4.69

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Mason looked at the world and saw that it was governed by universal laws, such as the law… read more

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"One popular trend in education is to emphasize “STEM"

-Karen Glass, In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

"Faith Is Required to Act upon an Idea. Miss Mason rejected the receptacle view of the mind and embraced the analogy that the mind is a living, spiritual entity that is hungry and must be fed in order…"

-Karen Glass, In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

Cover of Fu-Dog by Rumer Godden

16. Fu-Dog

By: Rumer Godden

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of an English girl's search for her Chinese heritage. The embroidered satin Fu-Dog her gr… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction

10 must-read childrens books like Fu-Dog by Rumer Godden

Transform Your Habits

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Transform Your Habits

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kästner , Walter Trier

3.98

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Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

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Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison

Lois Lenski

3.85

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I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

3.76

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

4.02

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Justin Morgan Had a Horse

Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

4.05

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