10 must-read historical fiction books like New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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New Chronicles of Rebecca

By: Kate Douglas Wiggin

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Miss Miranda Sawyer's old-fashioned garden was the pleasantest spot in Riverboro on a sunny July mo…

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1. 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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  • romance
  • classics
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • 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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2. Youth

By: Isaac Asimov

3.89

Format: 50 pages, Audiobook

Short story by Isaac Asimov. Two young boys find some very unusual new pets in this short story … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • young adult
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3. The Museum of Extraordinary Things

By: Alice Hoffman

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The only way to understand a river is to jump into it."

-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

"A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years."

-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

"The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day."

-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

"In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question."

-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

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4. 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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  • classics
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"And life is all a variorum, at the best."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

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6. New Chronicles of Rebecca

By: Kate Douglas Wiggin

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Miss Miranda Sawyer's old-fashioned garden was the pleasantest spot in Riverboro on a sunny July mo… read more

Similar categories in Kate Douglas Wiggin's New Chronicles of Rebecca book and Kate Douglas Wiggin's New Chronicles of Rebecca

  • romance
  • classics
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Half Magic (Tales of Magic, #1) by Edward Eager, N.M. Bodecker

7. Half Magic (Tales of Magic, #1)

By: Edward Eager , N.M. Bodecker

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Four children wish on a Half Magiccoin that gets their mother Alison half-way home, rescued by Mr S… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • childrens
  • young adult

8. A Girl of the Limberlost (Limberlost, #2)

By: Gene Stratton-Porter

3.80

Format: None pages,

Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observatio… read more

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9. Here's to You, Rachel Robinson

By: Judy Blume

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Rachel's a straight-A student, on every teacher's wish list of Natural Helpers. But she grinds her … read more

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10. The After House

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.75

Format: None pages,

Out of funds, Ralph Leslie jumps at the chance to sign aboard a luxurious yacht as steward of the A… read more

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11. Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

Cover of Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1) by Eleanor H. Porter

12. Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

By: Eleanor H. Porter

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Pollyanna's eternal optimism has made her one of the most beloved characters in American literature… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live."

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"„ în loc de a scoate la iveală greșelile unui om, vorbește-i de calitățile sale încearcă să-l scoți din făgașul obiceiurilor lui rele, deșteaptă eul său cel mai bun, adevăratul său eu care poate îndr…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - '…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in th…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

13. A World of Girls: The Story of a School

By: L.T. Meade

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1886, this early school story tells of the boarding-school life of Hetty Thornto… read more

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14. Under the Lilacs

By: Louisa May Alcott

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of two runaways -- Ben Brown and his dog, Sancho -- who have escaped from a hard … read more

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15. Miss Billy

By: Eleanor H. Porter , Nadiah Abidin

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

"Karena aku tak ingin kau jadi temanku, saudara perempuanku, atau apapun yang sifatnya berteman," c… read more

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16. Pollyanna Grows Up (Pollyanna #2)

By: Eleanor H. Porter

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The sequel to Pollyannafinds the effervescent orphan on the verge of womanhood. Her crippled legs c… read more

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17. Before Green Gables

By: Budge Wilson

4.00

Format: 131 pages,

A must-read for generations of book lovers. This remarkable and heart-warming prequel to the classi… read more

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18. Freckles (Limberlost #1)

By: Gene Stratton-Porter

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

FRECKLES "This tender love story is set in the wild swampland of Limberlost, the most frightening p… read more

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19. Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.12

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart,… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Don’t let a three-o’clock-at-night feeling fog your soul."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

"Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

"Oh, I am—I am lonely—with the loneliness of unshared thought."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

"It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

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20. Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"So never give in,"

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Tulips were a tray of jewels."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

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21. Marilla of Green Gables

By: Sarah McCoy

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and mo… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Keep yourself open to unexpected blessings, dear."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"There was power in knowledge. Like the gears of a steam engine, the more active knowledge was, the more force it produced."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"Human hearts are full of strife. It's a fallen world, my dears. We can only do our best to establish safe havens where we can."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"Just take a deep breath and go on in there with your head held high. Look for good things and good things [are] what you'll find..."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

12 Top fiction books like New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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An Old-Fashioned Girl

Louisa May Alcott

4.09

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Youth

Isaac Asimov

3.89

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The Museum of Extraordinary Things

Alice Hoffman

3.77

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These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)

Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.50

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Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)

Louisa May Alcott

4.02

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E. Nesbit

4.02

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Louisa May Alcott

4.09

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Emily of Deep Valley (Deep Valley, #2)

Maud Hart Lovelace , Vera Neville

4.29

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