9 Top middle grade books like Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

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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 …

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1. 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)

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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

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

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3. Tree in the Trail

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The history of the Great Plains and the Santa Fe Trail is told in text and pictures by focusing on … read more

Similar categories in Holling Clancy Holling's Tree in the Trail book and Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

  • classics
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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4. The Family Under the Bridge

By: Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"You're afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if they find out you have one."

-Garth Williams, The Family Under the Bridge

Cover of Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1) by Lois Lenski, Maud Hart Lovelace

5. 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

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

6. 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
Cover of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

7. 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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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling

8. Paddle-to-the-Sea

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.28

Format: 64 pages, Library Binding

A 1942 Caldecott Honor Book A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and na… read more

Similar categories in Holling Clancy Holling's Paddle-to-the-Sea book and Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

9. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Six legends of Greek mythology, retold for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Included are The Gorgon… read more

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10. 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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11. 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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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"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

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12. 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
  • juvenile

13. 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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14. Brighty of the Grand Canyon

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Long ago, a lone little burro roamed the high cliffs of the Grand Canyon and touched the hearts of … read more

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15. 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

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

16. Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)

By: E. Nesbit

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will … read more

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17. The Burgess Animal Book for Children

By: Thornton W. Burgess , None

4.27

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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18. 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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  • classics
  • childrens

19. 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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20. Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)

By: Charlotte M. Mason

4.53

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Book by Mason, Charlotte M. read more

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  • classics
"Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood."

-Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)

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21. 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

Similar categories in Cindy Rollins's Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too book and Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

  • 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

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Louisa May Alcott

4.02

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Elizabeth Enright

4.17

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Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

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Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)

Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

4.08

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Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

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Tree in the Trail

Holling Clancy Holling

4.15

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Howard Pyle

4.07

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Helen Sewell , Alice Dalgliesh

3.81

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