The Kite Rider
By: Geraldine McCaughrean
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Up and up the wind drew him. Haoyou looked about him and saw the whole world beneath him. And it wa…
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1. Canterbury Tales
By: Barbara Cohen , Trina Schart Hyman
3.81
Format: 87 pages, Hardcover
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a work of genius, … read more
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- childrens
- fiction
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2. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)
By: Roger Lancelyn Green , Arthur Hall
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- historical
- middle grade
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?"-Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)
"Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again."-Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)
3. Adam of the Road
By: Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray
3.77
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
"A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's a good… read more
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- childrens
- school
- adventure
- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. The Kite Rider
By: Geraldine McCaughrean
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Up and up the wind drew him. Haoyou looked about him and saw the whole world beneath him. And it wa… read more
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- childrens
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- adventure
- historical
- asia
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- china
5. The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1)
By: Avi
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
"Asta's Son" is all he's ever been called. The lack of a name is appropriate, because he and his mo… read more
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- childrens
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- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
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6. The Prince and the Pauper
By: Mark Twain , None , Everett Emerson
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-cen… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Loose and forbear!"-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
"A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved."-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
"A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart."-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
"Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily."-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
7. Call It Courage
By: Armstrong Sperry
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
A boy tries to overcome his fear of the sea in this treasured classic and winner of the Newbery Med… read more
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8. The Bronze Bow
By: Elizabeth George Speare
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Sa… read more
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- school
- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out."-Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow
"It is the hate that is the enemy. Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only thing stronger than hate is love."-Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow
9. The Story of King Arthur & His Knights (Classic Starts Series)
By: Arthur Pober , Howard Pyle , Tania Zamorsky , Dan Andreasen
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Hardcover
From the sword in the stone and the founding of Camelot to the famed Round Table and the Lake of En… read more
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- adventure
10. 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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- childrens
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- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Hazel
By: Julie Hearn
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Sweet but dull - that's how life has always been for Hazel Louise Mull-Dare. But on the day of the … read more
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- young adult
- historical fiction
12. Beowulf: A New Telling
By: Robert Nye
3.45
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail o… read more
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- young adult
- school
13. A Perfect Day for Bananafish
By: J.D. Salinger
4.70
Format: 84 pages,
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the Janu… read more
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14. The Secrets of Vesuvius (Roman Mysteries, #2)
By: Caroline Lawrence
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Flavia, Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia-friends and detectives-sail to the Bay of Naples to spend the su… read more
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15. The European World 400-1450
By: Barbara A. Hanawalt
3.50
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
As the Roman Empire began to crumble and lose its long-held dominance over Europe, new civilization… read more
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17. The Magna Charta
By: James Daugherty
4.57
Format: 272 pages,
In the rich turbulence of English history, one day stands magnificently apart: June 15th, 1215, the… read more
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18. The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
By: George MacDonald , Arthur Hughes
4.02
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the cas… read more
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- adventure
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
"But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."…"-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
19. Morningstar of the Reformation
By: Andy Thomson , None
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Wycliffe (1328-84) pursued his vision of an English Bible for the common man. A fictionalized … read more
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20. Meet the Austins
By: Madeleine L'Engle
3.79
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
A revised edition, including one section of the manuscript that was omitted in the original publica… read more
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21. The View from Saturday
By: E.L. Konigsburg
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But we… read more
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