Big Red (Big Red, #1)
By: Jim Kjelgaard , Carl Pfeuffer
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
From the moment Danny sees the beautiful Irish setter, he knows Red is the dog for him. Fast and sm…
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1. Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
By: Ralph Moody
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Thr… read more
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- classics
- childrens
"There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. There are black men and white men and yellow men and red men, but nothing counts except whether they're honest men or dish…"-Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
"You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mar…"-Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
2. Old Yeller
By: Fred Gipson
4.10
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
At first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving r… read more
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- classics
- childrens
- animals
- dogs
- young adult
- fiction
"... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids."-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
"You're getting to be a big boy; and while I'm gone, you'll be the man of the family. I want you to act like one. You take care of Mama and Little Arliss. You look after the work and don't wait around…"-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
"Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that…"-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
"That was as rough a thing as I ever heard tell of happening to a boy. And I'm mighty proud to learn how my boy stood up to it. You couldn't ask any more of a grown man... It's not a thing you can for…"-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
3. Love's Abiding Joy (Love Comes Softly, #4)
By: Janette Oke
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A Birthday Surprise, a New Journey West, and a Delightful Reunion! But Then Comes Tragedy. Mar… read more
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- fiction
4. Frightful's Mountain (Mountain, #3)
By: Jean Craighead George
3.80
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Can frightful survive alone? Sam Gribley has been told that it is illegal to harbor an endangered b… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- animals
- young adult
- fiction
5. Rascal
By: John Schoenherr , Sterling North
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a … read more
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- classics
- childrens
- animals
- young adult
- fiction
6. Otto of the Silver Hand
By: Howard Pyle
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
A rich and engrossing thread of Romance runs through this tale of the motherless son of a valiant r… read more
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- classics
- childrens
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7. Tortured for Christ N/E
By: Richard Wurmbrand
4.82
Format: 224 pages,
Richard Wurmbrand endured months of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, const… read more
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8. The Black Stallion (The Black Stallion, #1)
By: Walter Farley , Keith Ward
2.90
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
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9. 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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- fiction
- classics
- childrens
- young adult
"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
10. Big Red (Big Red, #1)
By: Jim Kjelgaard , Carl Pfeuffer
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
From the moment Danny sees the beautiful Irish setter, he knows Red is the dog for him. Fast and sm… read more
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- classics
- childrens
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- animals
- young adult
- dogs
- fiction
11. The Black Pearl
By: Scott O'Dell
3.51
Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ramon cannot believe what he has just found in an oyster he's brought up from an underwater cave wh… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
12. Dragon Flight (Dragon Slippers, #2)
By: Jessica Day George
4.00
Format: 416 pages,
With the Dragon Wars over, Creel finds herself bored with life as a seamstress. Then word comes tha… read more
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- childrens
- young adult
- adventure
13. Little Bear
By: Else Holmelund Minarik , Maurice Sendak
3.10
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Dem Kleinen Baren ist niemals langweilig, denn er erlebt immer neue Abenteuer. Eines Tages beschlie… read more
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- animals
- classics
- childrens
- fiction
14. The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)
By: Garth Williams , George Selden
4.04
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tire… read more
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- childrens
- animals
- young adult
- fiction
"Harry had been down to Washington Square to hear an open-air concert of chamber music. How you could play chamber music outdoors Chester didn't understand—but it was New York and anything could happe…"-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)
"I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish," sighed Chester. "It's getting towards autumn now. And it's so pretty up in Connecticut. All the trees change color. The days get very clear―with a little smoke…"-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)
"Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still …"-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)
"Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their face…"-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)
15. My Friend Flicka (Flicka, #1)
By: Mary O'Hara , Dave Blossom
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
It seems Ken can't do anything right. He loses saddle blankets and breaks reins...but then comes th… read more
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- classics
- childrens
- animals
- young adult
- fiction
16. Dragon Spear (Dragon Slippers, #3)
By: Jessica Day George
4.67
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
For Creel, all is right with the world. The dragon king, Shardas, and his queen, Velika, have made … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- adventure
17. 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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- childrens
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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
18. Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business
By: Dolly Parton
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
In concerts, movies and on TV, Dolly Parton's singing and honest-to-God personality has charmed mil… read more
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19. Love's Enduring Promise (Love Comes Softly #2)
By: Janette Oke
3.42
Format: None pages,
Tragedy brought them together, but love bound them into a family.Clark and Marty Davis, the pioneer… read more
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- fiction
20. 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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- 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
21. Paddle-to-the-Sea
By: Holling Clancy Holling
4.28
Format: 64 pages, Library Binding
A 1942 Caldecott Honor Book A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and na… read more
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- childrens
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- adventure
22. Rifles for Watie
By: Harold Keith
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the … read more
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23. Stuart Little
By: E.B. White , Garth Williams
3.90
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! Stuart Little is no o… read more
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"Well,"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
"Very fine law,"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
"(Not every doctor can look into a mouse's ear without laughing)"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
"A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
24. The Capture (Guardians of Ga'Hoole, #1)
By: Kathryn Lasky
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, barn owl Soren is rescued from certain death on… read more
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25. Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
By: Carol Ryrie Brink
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to b… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- young adult
- fiction
"Life is just a lot of everyday adventures."-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
"But every redhead's temper has its limitations."-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes on at the end of an outdoor day."-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day."-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
26. Sounder
By: William H. Armstrong , James Barkley
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Soun… read more
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27. Gods and Generals (The Civil War Trilogy, #1)
By: Jeff Shaara
4.46
Format: 192 pages,
In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara… read more
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28. Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)
By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Amo… read more
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29. King of the Wind
By: Maguerite Henry
4.40
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1948, this is the story of one of historyâ€s most famous horses, the Godolp… read more
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- childrens
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- young adult
- fiction
30. Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4)
By: S.D. Smith
4.61
Format: 416 pages, Perfect Paperback
The end is here. Heather and Picket face off for the last time with their tyrannical foes in this f… read more
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"It's like being inside a perfect poem, I think."-S.D. Smith, Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4)
"It's always hard to forgive, but it's never not worth it."-S.D. Smith, Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4)
"Dear Kyle, you are the great nitwit of the world. Love, Jo Shanks."-S.D. Smith, Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4)
"We were family then. We are family now. Won't you come home again?"-S.D. Smith, Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4)
31. Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
By: Adam Makos
4.53
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the international bestseller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story… read more
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