Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
By: Mary Mapes Dodge
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Gretel looked at her mother in troubled silence, wondering whether it were very wicked to care mor…
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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
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- 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)
2. George Washington's World: Life Story of George Washington, A wonderful Narratives Explored by the writer
By: Joanna Foster , Genevieve Foster
4.05
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
1942 Newbery Honor Title The period measured by the life of George Washington, 1732 to 1799, was… read more
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- childrens
3. Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
By: Louisa May Alcott
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Rose Campbell, tired and ill, has come to live at "The Aunt Hill" after the death of her beloved fa… read more
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- classics
- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Let the girl run and shout as much as she will- it is a sure sign of health, and as natural to a happy child as frisking is to any young animal full of life. Tomboys make strong women"-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
"It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have out little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not."-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
"But he will be all the better fitted for business, because of the help it [sport] gives him. Polish is easily added if the foundations are strong, but no amount of gilding will be of use if your timb…"-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
"It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him asunder. "Read and improve your mind, my son," answered Archie, peering solemnly over the pape…"-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
4. Thimble Summer
By: Elizabeth Enright
3.75
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
When Garnet finds a silver thimble in the sand by the river, she is sure it’s magical. But is it ma… read more
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- classics
- childrens
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- juvenile
"Garnet was very happy. She was so happy, for no especial reason, that she felt as if she must move carefully so she wouldn’t jar or shake the feeling of happiness. She descended from the roof cautiou…"-Elizabeth Enright, Thimble Summer
5. 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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- 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
6. The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
By: Cecil Leslie , E. Nesbit
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
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- juvenile
"If what we have written brings happiness to any sad heart we shall not have laboured in vain. But we want the money too."-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
"Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be."-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
"I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this."-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
"Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of th…"-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
7. Cuori di carta
By: Elisa Puricelli Guerra
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tutto inizia con un messaggio lasciato dentro un libro da una ragazza. Un compagno di scuola lo tro… read more
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- fiction
8. The Courage of Sarah Noble
By: Leonard Weisgard , Alice Dalgliesh
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for t… read more
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- classics
- childrens
- middle grade
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. Frightful's Mountain (Mountain, #3)
By: Jean Craighead George
3.80
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Can frightful survive alone? Sam Gribley has been told that it is illegal to harbor an endangered b… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
10. The Sword in the Tree
By: Clyde Robert Bulla , Bruce Bowles
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the days of King Arthur there stood a mighty oak tree within the walls of a castle. Peace reigne… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. 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)
12. The Door in the Wall
By: Marguerite de Angeli
4.88
Format: 242 pages,
The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great hous… read more
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- classics
- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousins, #2)
By: Louisa May Alcott
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose Campbell returns to the "Aunt Hill" after two years of travel… read more
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- classics
- childrens
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. The Swiss Family Robinson
By: Arthur Pober , Johann David Wyss , Scott McKowen
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, fi… read more
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- childrens
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven."-Arthur Pober, The Swiss Family Robinson
15. Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
By: Mary Mapes Dodge
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Gretel looked at her mother in troubled silence, wondering whether it were very wicked to care mor… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- juvenile
16. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
By: Margaret Sidney
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Five Little Peppers and How They Grewwas originally serialized in an 1880 edition of Wide Awake, a … read more
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- historical fiction
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17. Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy
By: Christine Nöstlinger
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mrs. Bartolotti finds a factory-made child, who never does anything wrong, in the post - delivered … read more
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- fiction
- childrens
- young adult
18. A Lion to Guard Us
By: Clyde Robert Bulla
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
The inspiring story that TheNew Yorkercalled "an exciting tale with top-notch writing," about one g… read more
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19. The Wheel on the School
By: Maurice Sendak , Meindert DeJong
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why do the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina,… read more
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"... but first to dream and then to do - isn't that the way to make a dream come true?"-Maurice Sendak, The Wheel on the School
"That's the trouble with being twins - if you don't know something, you don't know it double."-Maurice Sendak, The Wheel on the School
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21. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
By: Kate Douglas Wiggin
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Shirley Temple did a lot to make Rebecca famous when she won the world's heart in the movie we all … read more
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22. Just David
By: Eleanor H. Porter
3.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eleanor Porter wrote this wonderful novel two years after the runaway success of her book Pollyanna… read more
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23. 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
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"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
24. 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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- historical fiction
- juvenile
25. 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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26. 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
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- 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)
27. 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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- middle grade
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"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
28. The Little Duke
By: Charlotte Mary Yonge
4.13
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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29. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too
By: Cindy Rollins
4.75
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more
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- childrens
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too
30. Once a Queen (Carrick Hall, #1)
By: Sarah Arthur
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An American teenager discovers that her estranged English grandmother was once a queen in another w… read more
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- middle grade
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- historical fiction
