12 Top animals books like Big Red (Big Red, #1) by Jim Kjelgaard, Carl Pfeuffer

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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…

If you liked the animals plot in Big Red (Big Red, #1) by Jim Kjelgaard, Carl Pfeuffer , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1) by Ralph Moody

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)

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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

Cover of Love's Abiding Joy (Love Comes Softly, #4) by Janette Oke

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

Similar categories in Janette Oke's Love's Abiding Joy (Love Comes Softly, #4) book and Jim Kjelgaard's Big Red (Big Red, #1)

  • fiction
Cover of Frightful's Mountain (Mountain, #3) by Jean Craighead George

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
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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
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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
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of Tortured for Christ N/E by Richard Wurmbrand

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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Cover of The Black Stallion (The Black Stallion, #1) by Walter Farley, Keith Ward

8. The Black Stallion (The Black Stallion, #1)

By: Walter Farley , Keith Ward

2.90

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
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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

Cover of Big Red (Big Red, #1) by Jim Kjelgaard, Carl Pfeuffer

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

Similar categories in Jim Kjelgaard's Big Red (Big Red, #1) book and Jim Kjelgaard's Big Red (Big Red, #1)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • animals
  • young adult
  • dogs
  • fiction
Cover of The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell

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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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of Dragon Flight (Dragon Slippers, #2) by Jessica Day George

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
Cover of Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik, Maurice Sendak

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
Cover of The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1) by Garth Williams, George Selden

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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  • classics
  • 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)

Cover of My Friend Flicka (Flicka, #1) by Mary O'Hara, Dave Blossom

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

Similar categories in Mary O'Hara's My Friend Flicka (Flicka, #1) book and Jim Kjelgaard's Big Red (Big Red, #1)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of Dragon Spear (Dragon Slippers, #3) by Jessica Day George

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

Similar categories in Jessica Day George's Dragon Spear (Dragon Slippers, #3) book and Jim Kjelgaard's Big Red (Big Red, #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • adventure
Cover of The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

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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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business by Dolly Parton

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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Cover of Love's Enduring Promise (Love Comes Softly #2) by Janette Oke

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

Similar categories in Janette Oke's Love's Enduring Promise (Love Comes Softly #2) book and Jim Kjelgaard's Big Red (Big Red, #1)

  • fiction
Cover of Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

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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  • classics
  • childrens
  • animals
  • young adult
  • 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

Cover of Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling

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

Similar categories in Holling Clancy Holling's Paddle-to-the-Sea book and Jim Kjelgaard's Big Red (Big Red, #1)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • 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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Cover of Stuart Little by E.B. White, Garth Williams

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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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
"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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Cover of Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1) by Carol Ryrie Brink

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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  • classics
  • 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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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4) by S.D.   Smith

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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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
"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)

"We were family then. We are family now. Won't you come home again?"

-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)

Cover of Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II by Adam Makos

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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Fred Gipson

4.10

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Janette Oke

4.21

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Jean Craighead George

3.80

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John Schoenherr , Sterling North

3.91

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Arnold Lobel

4.25

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Russell Hoban , Lillian Hoban

4.21

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Virginia Lee Burton

5.00

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Virginia Lee Burton

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