Prudence Crandall Woman of Courage
By: Elizabeth Yates
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Yates, Elizabeth
Want to Read $ 4.99"Once I thought forgiveness was great, now I see repentance to be even greater for it is life-giving. These United States are strong because they have the capacity to see and correct mistakes, to change and grow."-Elizabeth Yates, Prudence Crandall Woman of Courage
"Once I thought forgiveness was great, now I see repentance to be even greater for it is life-giving. These United States are strong because they have the capacity to see and correct mistakes, to change and grow."-Elizabeth Yates, Prudence Crandall Woman of Courage
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1. Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
By: Louisa May Alcott
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Rose Campbell, tired and ill, has come to live at "The Aunt Hill" after the death of her beloved fa… read more
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- childrens
- historical fiction
"Let the girl run and shout as much as she will- it is a sure sign of health, and as natural to a happy child as frisking is to any young animal full of life. Tomboys make strong women"-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
"It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have out little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not."-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
"But he will be all the better fitted for business, because of the help it [sport] gives him. Polish is easily added if the foundations are strong, but no amount of gilding will be of use if your timb…"-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
"It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him asunder. "Read and improve your mind, my son," answered Archie, peering solemnly over the pape…"-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
2. An Old-Fashioned Girl
By: Louisa May Alcott
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It was first serialised in the Merry's Museum magazine between July and August in 1869 and consiste… read more
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- childrens
- historical fiction
"There can't be too much charity!"-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
"A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman."-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
"When you feel out of sorts, try to make some one else happy, and you will soon be so yourself."-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
"We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly."-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
3. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
By: John Taylor Gatto
4.15
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public educ… read more
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"… nothing important can ever really be boring."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"As redes operacionais tornam as pessoas solitárias."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,"-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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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- childrens
"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. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
By: Howard Pyle
4.07
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Dünya tarihinin en ünlü halk kahramanlarından biri olan Robin Hood, zorlu bir dönemde ortaya çıkmış… read more
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- childrens
- historical fiction
"Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
"So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
"I had to pay a ransom of six hundred pounds in gold. All might have gone well even yet, only that, by ins and outs and crookedness of laws, I was shorn like a sheep that is clipped to the quick."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
"Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the worm getteth him, as our good gossip Swanthold sayeth; so let life be merry while it lasts, say I."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
6. Dawn
By: H. Rider Haggard
3.62
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
This last sentence was accompanied by a bitter laugh, and produced a decided effect on the grovelli… read more
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- historical fiction
7. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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- historical fiction
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
8. 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
9. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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- historical fiction
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
10. The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
By: Esther Hautzig
4.18
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
It is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemi… read more
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- historical fiction
11. The Westing Game
By: Ellen Raskin
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. W… read more
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- childrens
12. Where the Red Fern Grows
By: Wilson Rawls
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann—a boy and his two dogs... A loving threesome, they ranged the dar… read more
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- historical fiction
"I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
"I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too."-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
"I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it woukdn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too"."-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
"What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back…"-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
13. 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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- historical fiction
14. Miracle on 34th Street
By: Tomie dePaola , Valentine Davies
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Generations of believers in hope and goodwill have made Valentine Davies' Miracle on 34th Streeta t… read more
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15. The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #11)
By: Carolyn Keene
3.00
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Another vacation turns into a riddle for Nancy to solve while she visits a lakeside holiday area. C… read more
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16. Understood Betsy
By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
4.22
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more
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- historical fiction
"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy
17. The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, #1)
By: Jonathan Rogers , None , None
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Aidan Errolson comes from a long line of adventurers. His grandparents were among t… read more
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"You don't want to be killed. I don't either. But wouldn't you rather die once than die every day of your life?"-Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, #1)
"Who knows what the future holds? Only the One God," explained Aidan. "You just live the little bit of life that you can see in front of you. You live it well. And that gets you ready for whatever unf…"-Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, #1)
18. The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future
By: Jonathan Cahn
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
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19. The Little Duke
By: Charlotte Mary Yonge
4.13
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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20. A Night to Remember
By: Walter Lord , Nathaniel Philbrick
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition w… read more
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21. The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)
By: Lloyd Alexander
3.92
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was a… read more
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22. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
By: L. Frank Baum , W.W. Denslow
4.00
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to … read more
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"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..."-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
"If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace."-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
"El verdadero valor reside en enfrentarse al peligro aun cuando uno está asustado."-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
"She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil."-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
23. Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
By: Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
3.99
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
"Dad had enough gall to be divided into three parts." Dad was Frank B. Gilbreth, to the world a dis… read more
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"Some simpleton with pimples in his voice wants to speak to Ernestine," he grumbled to Mother when he answered the phone."-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
"Ernestine used to remark, in a tone tinged with envy, that Lill was probably New Jersey's youngest gold digger, and that few adult gold diggers ever had received more, in return for less."-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
"But it was Mother who spun the stories that made the things we studied really unforgettable. If Dad saw motion study and teamwork in an ant hill, Mother saw a highly complex civilization governed, pe…"-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
24. Nothing Else But Miracles
By: Kate Albus
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy … read more
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- historical fiction
25. Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
By: Justin Whitmel Earley
4.61
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond t… read more
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26. Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out
By: Jim Burns
4.15
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest? Are you feeling the t… read more
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27. Mystery on Constitution Island
By: Maggie Felsch
3.68
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
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28. The Story of Edith Cavell
By: Iris Vinton
4.36
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
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29. Escape to Freedom
By: Ruth Fosdick Jones
4.32
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
The setting is Buffalo, New York and the High School teacher-carpenter on the side whose home provi… read more
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30. Prudence Crandall Woman of Courage
By: Elizabeth Yates
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Yates, Elizabeth read more
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- historical fiction
"Once I thought forgiveness was great, now I see repentance to be even greater for it is life-giving. These United States are strong because they have the capacity to see and correct mistakes, to chan…"-Elizabeth Yates, Prudence Crandall Woman of Courage
