21 best-selling fiction books like Hue and Cry by Elizabeth Yates

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Hue and Cry

By: Elizabeth Yates

4.22

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Hue and Cry by award-winning author Elizabeth Yates takes place in the 1830s in New Hampshire. Melo…

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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
  • fiction
  • 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. 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
  • fiction
  • 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

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3. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the pra… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"When gloomy clouds across the sky Cast shadows o'er the land, Bright rays of hope illumine my path, For Jesus holds my hand."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"All day the storm lasted. The windows were white and the wind never stopped howling and screaming. It was pleasant in the warm house. Laura and Mary did their lessons, then Pa played the fiddle while…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

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4. Treasures of the Snow

By: Patricia St. John

4.27

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

A story of vicious revenge and hard repentance Annette and Lucien are enemies. After Annette get… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He is love, and when love comes in, hatred and selfishness and unkindness will give way to it, just as the darkness gives way when you let in the sunshine. But try to chase it alone would be trying t…"

-Patricia St. John, Treasures of the Snow

Cover of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston

5. North and South

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

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6. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life

By: Janet Benge , Geoff Benge

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life details the life and adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, a p… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

7. These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim s… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. 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
  • fiction
  • 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

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9. Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity

By: Rebekah Merkle

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

The swooning Victorian ladies and the 1950s housewives genuinely needed to be liberated. That much … read more

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10. Listening for Lions

By: Gloria Whelan , Brett Helquist

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

"If you are among evil people, you must be like the lion, gathering strength and awaiting your time… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Blue Castle

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.94

Format: 255 pages,

Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.67

Format: 364 pages,

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

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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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

14. Pedro's Journal

By: Pam Conrad

4.61

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

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15. Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Pam Morris

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughterscentres on the story of yout… read more

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16. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more

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17. 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
  • historical 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)

18. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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19. Calico Captive

By: Elizabeth George Speare , W.T. Mars

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries… read more

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20. The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)

By: Melanie Dickerson

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Two Hearts. One Hope. Rose has been appointed as a healer's apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a ra… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Feel Better? No. Get up so I can hit you again."

-Melanie Dickerson, The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)

"Music was food for the spirit, and she closed her eyes to better feed upon it."

-Melanie Dickerson, The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)

"I vow to you, Rose, that I will love you so tenderly, you will never feel unloved again."

-Melanie Dickerson, The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)

"It doesn't matter who your parents are. That doesn't determine your worth, Rose. According to the wisdom of the world, it does. But not according to God's wisdom."

-Melanie Dickerson, The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)

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21. The Winged Watchman

By: Hilda van Stockum

4.26

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

This acclaimed story of World War II is rich in suspense, characterization, plot and spiritual trut… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"But remember that truth itself becomes a lie in the twisted minds of our conquerors."

-Hilda van Stockum, The Winged Watchman

"Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only u…"

-Hilda van Stockum, The Winged Watchman

22. Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The long winter is finally over, and with spring comes a new job for Laura, town parties, and more … read more

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23. Johnny Tremain

By: Lynd Ward , Esther Forbes

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 B… read more

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24. The First Four Years (Little House, #9)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. La… read more

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25. 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
  • historical 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

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26. Rescue

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

A World War II story of espionage and intrigue, as one girl races to save her father and aid the Fr… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Dragon and the Stone (The Dream Keeper Saga, #1) by Kathryn  Butler

27. The Dragon and the Stone (The Dream Keeper Saga, #1)

By: Kathryn Butler

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

Even though she’s only 12 years old, Lily McKinley already feels the weight of the world’s brokenne… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1) by S.D.   Smith

28. The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)

By: S.D. Smith

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Perfect Paperback

Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake t… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"Was Father getting sadder, or was she just getting old enough to see it?"

-S.D. Smith, The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)

"You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can't change what's true."

-S.D. Smith, The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)

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29. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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  • fiction
"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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30. Christy

By: Catherine Marshall

4.24

Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition

The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Car… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Truth could never be wholly contained in words."

-Catherine Marshall, Christy

"I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered."

-Catherine Marshall, Christy

"The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'."

-Catherine Marshall, Christy

"Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains."

-Catherine Marshall, Christy

Cover of Hue and Cry by Elizabeth Yates

31. Hue and Cry

By: Elizabeth Yates

4.22

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Hue and Cry by award-winning author Elizabeth Yates takes place in the 1830s in New Hampshire. Melo… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

16 Top childrens books like Hue and Cry by Elizabeth Yates

Transform Your Habits

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

4.02

Transform Your Habits

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Louisa May Alcott

4.09

Transform Your Habits

On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Treasures of the Snow

Patricia St. John

4.27

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28 must-read fiction books like Rescue by Jennifer A. Nielsen

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Prisoner B-3087

Alan Gratz

4.27

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Rescue

Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

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Stolen Girl

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.11

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The Fort

Gordon Korman

4.31

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