6 must-read childrens books like Ariki and the Island of Wonders by Nicola Davies

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Ariki and the Island of Wonders

By: Nicola Davies

3.95

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A nail-biting adventure with a strong message about endangered animals and human intervention, and …

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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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"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

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2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

By: Judy Blume

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are p… read more

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3. The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)

By: Peter Brown

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild… read more

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4. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

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5. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

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"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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6. Great Circle

By: Maggie Shipstead

4.11

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780525656975 can be found here. Spanning Prohibition-era M… read more

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"Numbness is not an absence of feeling but a felt absence."

-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

"Abandonment stings, even when it means freedom. [Hadley Baxter]"

-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

"You don't just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them."

-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

"We must bend in the wind sometimes.... So much is beyond our control. [Mrs. Fahey]"

-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

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7. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

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"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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8. The Last Bear (The Last Bear #1)

By: Hannah Gold

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An instant classic with a bear-sized heart, Hannah Gold’s debut novel is a touching story of kindne… read more

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9. The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel

By: Mariah Marsden

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Green-growing secrets and magic await you at Misselthwaite Manor, now reimagined in this graphic no… read more

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10. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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11. Get to Work! (Ivy & Bean #12)

By: Annie Barrows

4.33

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Ivy and Bean go searching for treasure in Book 12 of the New York Times bestselling early chapter b… read more

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Cover of Ariki and the Island of Wonders by Nicola Davies

12. Ariki and the Island of Wonders

By: Nicola Davies

3.95

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A nail-biting adventure with a strong message about endangered animals and human intervention, and … read more

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19 Best audiobook books like A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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Nicole Chung

4.01

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Ann Napolitano

4.16

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