18 Best fiction books like The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4) by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

Cover of The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4) by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

There has never been a museum in Cranbury...until now. Among its treasures are the first bike each …

If you liked the fiction plot in The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4) by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin , here is a list of 18 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

Similar categories in Ralph Moody's Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • 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)

Cover of The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1) by Elizabeth Enright

2. 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 Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"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)

Cover of On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

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

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"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)

Cover of Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright, Joe Krush, Beth Krush

4. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Enright's Gone-Away Lake book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"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

Cover of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1) by Alexandra Boiger, Betty MacDonald

5. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

By: Alexandra Boiger , Betty MacDonald

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells li… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Boiger's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"THIS IS DICK -- DON'T TOUCH!!!"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

"I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

"Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’ Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She…"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

Cover of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

6. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

By: Grace Lin

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the f… read more

Similar categories in Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1) by Lois Lenski, Maud Hart Lovelace

7. Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)

By: Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

4.08

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Best Friends Forever There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age.… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lenski's Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so …"

-Lois Lenski, Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)

"Did we bring a lunch?' asked Tacy. 'Yes,' said Betsy. 'It's under the seat. There are chicken sandwiches and hard-boiled eggs and potato salad and watermelon and chocolate cake and sweet pickles and …"

-Lois Lenski, Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)

Cover of Then There Were Five (The Melendy Family, #3) by Elizabeth Enright

8. 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 Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze by Elizabeth Enright

9. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Enright's Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Girl Who Saved Christmas by Matt Haig

10. The Girl Who Saved Christmas

By: Matt Haig

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF MAGIC If magic has a beginning, can it also have an end? When Amelia wants a… read more

Similar categories in Matt Haig's The Girl Who Saved Christmas book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

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

11. 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

Similar categories in Garth Williams's The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"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 The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4) by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

12. The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

There has never been a museum in Cranbury...until now. Among its treasures are the first bike each … read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Caleb's Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall #3) by Patricia MacLachlan

13. Caleb's Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall #3)

By: Patricia MacLachlan

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Anna has done something terrible. She has given me a journal to fill. "It's your job now," Anna say… read more

Similar categories in Patricia MacLachlan's Caleb's Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall #3) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

14. 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

Similar categories in Lois Lenski's Strawberry Girl book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2) by Elizabeth Enright

15. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Enright's The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile

16. The Hog's Back Mystery

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

5.00

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

'As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done ... On the level of Mr Crofts' very best; w… read more

Similar categories in Freeman Wills Crofts's The Hog's Back Mystery book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

17. The Year of Billy Miller

By: Kevin Henkes

4.11

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Award-winning, nationally bestselling author Kevin Henkes introduces second-grader Billy Miller in … read more

Similar categories in Kevin Henkes's The Year of Billy Miller book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

18. Brown Girl Dreaming

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesme… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

19. Winterbound

By: Margery Williams Bianco

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of young people from the city adjusting to a winter in the Connecticut hills. read more

Similar categories in Margery Williams Bianco's Winterbound book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

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

20. 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

Similar categories in Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile

21. Not the Killing Type (Booktown Mystery, #7)

By: Lorna Barrett

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

It's November in Stoneham, New Hampshire, and that means it's time for the Chamber of Commerce elec… read more

Similar categories in Lorna Barrett's Not the Killing Type (Booktown Mystery, #7) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

22. The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, #1)

By: Carolyn Keene , Sara Paretsky , Russell H. Tandy

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

This is a facsimile reprint of the first ever Nancy Drew book, published 1930. Nancy Drew's keen mi… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Keene's The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, #1) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

23. Book Clubbed (Booktown Mystery, #8)

By: Lorna Barrett

3.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Lorna Barrett is back in town--Booktown, that is--with another pa… read more

Similar categories in Lorna Barrett's Book Clubbed (Booktown Mystery, #8) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

24. Goblin Secrets (Zombay, #1)

By: William Alexander

4.15

Format: None pages, ebook

In the town of Zombay, there is a witch named Graba who has clockwork chicken legs and moves her ho… read more

Similar categories in William Alexander's Goblin Secrets (Zombay, #1) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

25. The 12:30 from Croydon

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

3.85

Format: None pages,

'Crofts constructs his alibi with immense elaboration...The story is highly successful, and Mr Crof… read more

Similar categories in Freeman Wills Crofts's The 12:30 from Croydon book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

26. The Willoughbys

By: Lois Lowry

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A an… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's The Willoughbys book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

Cover of The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7) by Karina Yan Glaser

27. 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 Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of A Wolf Called Wander (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel) by Rosanne Parry

28. A Wolf Called Wander (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel)

By: Rosanne Parry

4.21

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains learning to hunt, competing with his … read more

Similar categories in Rosanne Parry's A Wolf Called Wander (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel) book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Even a summer night is cold when you sleep alone."

-Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel)

Cover of Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow

29. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bow's Simon Sort of Says book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

Cover of All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat

30. All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.51

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

An account of the amazing Thai cave rescue told in a you-are-there style that blends suspense, scie… read more

Similar categories in Christina Soontornvat's All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
Cover of North American Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Continent by Matthew Bucklan

31. North American Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Continent

By: Matthew Bucklan

4.08

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

The Maps for Curious Minds series is back—with 100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Bucklan's North American Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Continent book and Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

14 best-selling classics books like The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4) by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

Transform Your Habits

Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)

Ralph Moody

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)

Elizabeth Enright

4.17

Transform Your Habits

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

Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Gone-Away Lake

Elizabeth Enright , Joe Krush , Beth Krush

4.14

View all the books

25 must-read fiction books like Then There Were Five (The Melendy Family, #3) by Elizabeth Enright

Transform Your Habits

The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)

Cecil Leslie , E. Nesbit

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

Jeanne Birdsall

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-Tacy, #2)

Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

3.82

Transform Your Habits

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

Elizabeth Enright

3.89

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.