12 Best classics books like The Moffats (The Moffats, #1) by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

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The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.01

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Four Moffat children and a hard-working widowed mother live on New Dollar Street in Cranbury villag…

If you liked the classics plot in The Moffats (The Moffats, #1) by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)

By: Elizabeth Enright

4.17

Format: 177 pages, Hardcover

Saturdays can make dreams come true when the Melendy children take turns to spend their pooled al… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Enright's The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirlin…"

-Elizabeth Enright, The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)

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2. Gone-Away Lake

By: Elizabeth Enright , Joe Krush , Beth Krush

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Summer has a magic all its own. When Portia sets out for a visit with her cousin Julian, she exp… read more

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  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Things are always happening to my socks. One's always going off someplace. I don't know why."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

"Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

"Yes, except that nothing sleeps inside but furniture, and that's probably gone to pieces by now. Time gets into anything; yes, indeed it does; and weather helps it."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

"Mr. Payton was at work on his pipe again, lighting and coaxing it. "They need constant attention, pipes, like babies and guinea hens," he said, and sucked in the smoke."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

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3. Then There Were Five (The Melendy Family, #3)

By: Elizabeth Enright

3.89

Format: 221 pages,

A summer that promises to be eventful turns into something extra special when the four Melendy chil… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Enright's Then There Were Five (The Melendy Family, #3) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze

By: Elizabeth Enright

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

Four reasons to cheer! Meet the Melendys! Mona, the eldest, is thirteen. She has decided to become … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Prince Warriors and the Unseen Invasion (The Prince Warriors #2)

By: Priscilla Shirer , Gina Detwiler

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

In this second book in The Prince Warriors trilogy, the Prince Warriors face new challenges on eart… read more

Similar categories in Priscilla Shirer's The Prince Warriors and the Unseen Invasion (The Prince Warriors #2) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
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6. Rabbit Hill

By: Robert Lawson

4.25

Format: 355 pages,

It has been a while since Folks lived in the Big House, and an even longer time has passed since th… read more

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  • classics
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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7. By the Great Horn Spoon!

By: Sid Fleischman

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

For fans of theI Survivedseries--a rollicking adventure from the California Gold Rush! When Jack's … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.01

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Four Moffat children and a hard-working widowed mother live on New Dollar Street in Cranbury villag… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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9. The Prince Warriors and the Swords of Rhema (The Prince Warriors #3)

By: Priscilla Shirer , Gina Detwiler

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

In this third book of The Prince Warriors trilogy, the Prince Warriors finally receive their last p… read more

Similar categories in Priscilla Shirer's The Prince Warriors and the Swords of Rhema (The Prince Warriors #3) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
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10. Strawberry Girl

By: Lois Lenski

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The land was theirs, but so were its hardships Strawberries -- big, ripe, and juicy. Ten-year-old B… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)

By: Elizabeth Enright

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Melendy family moves from their New York City brownstone to an odd old house in the country. Mo… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Miracles on Maple Hill

By: Beth Krush , Virginia Sorensen

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hil… read more

Similar categories in Beth Krush's Miracles on Maple Hill book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
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13. Understood Betsy

By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Understood Betsy book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

Cover of All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1) by Sydney Taylor

14. All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1)

By: Sydney Taylor

4.24

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

It's the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family

15. In Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic, #1)

By: Arleta Richardson , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pieces of Magic Remember when you were a child--when all the world was new, and the smallest object… read more

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16. 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

Similar categories in Carol Ryrie Brink's Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical 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)

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17. Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline

By: AmblesideOnline Education Foundation

4.72

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

The AmblesideOnline Advisory began as a band of mothers who followed God and the vitalizing ideas o… read more

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18. The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7)

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling Vanderbeeker family finds love and hope in hard times as they face the challenge of… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. 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
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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20. The Last Archer (Green Ember Archer, #1)

By: S.D. Smith

4.45

Format: 160 pages, None

A Green Ember story set during Heather and Picket’s arrival at Cloud Mountain, The Last Archer foll… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I'm fine," Jo said, "according to this fine doctor, Emma, who has a reputation for honesty and smelling good."

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

"No disapproving voices haunted his vision, nor were any angry faces shaking their heads at his shame. Jo believed he was dying, but a weary smile played across his face."

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

"Jo's heart sank. Five fresh wolves against one doe, who was unaware of their presence, and two half-dead bucks on the other side of the clearing. Jo glanced at the Cloud Mountain archer. He wasn't mo…"

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

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21. Ember Falls (The Green Ember, #2)

By: S.D. Smith

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Perfect Paperback

The stage is set. It's war. Morbin Blackhawk, slaver and tyrant, threatens to destroy the rabbit re… read more

Similar categories in S.D. Smith's Ember Falls (The Green Ember, #2) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now."

-S.D. Smith, Ember Falls (The Green Ember, #2)

"It's better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don't skip ahead"

-S.D. Smith, Ember Falls (The Green Ember, #2)

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