6 best-selling childrens books like Irish Red by Jim Kjelgaard

Irish Red

By: Jim Kjelgaard

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

For all his champion Irish setter blood, Mike was a misfit. Danny Pickett and his father tried ever…

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Cover of Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

1. Old Yeller

By: Fred Gipson

4.10

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

At first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving r… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • animals
  • dogs
  • young adult
  • fiction
"... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids."

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

"You're getting to be a big boy; and while I'm gone, you'll be the man of the family. I want you to act like one. You take care of Mama and Little Arliss. You look after the work and don't wait around…"

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

"Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that…"

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

"That was as rough a thing as I ever heard tell of happening to a boy. And I'm mighty proud to learn how my boy stood up to it. You couldn't ask any more of a grown man... It's not a thing you can for…"

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

Cover of Love's Abiding Joy (Love Comes Softly, #4) by Janette Oke

2. Love's Abiding Joy (Love Comes Softly, #4)

By: Janette Oke

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A Birthday Surprise, a New Journey West, and a Delightful Reunion! But Then Comes Tragedy. Mar… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess by Chris Riddell, Richard Platt

3. Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess

By: Chris Riddell , Richard Platt

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Paperback

"Not many, if any, children's books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of informatio… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1) by Robert Louis Stevenson

4. 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
  • adventure
"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)

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5. Ride the River

By: Louis L'Amour

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

In Ride the River, Louis L'Amour spins the tale of a young woman who has to protect her family fort… read more

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  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of My Friend Flicka (Flicka, #1) by Mary O'Hara, Dave Blossom

6. My Friend Flicka (Flicka, #1)

By: Mary O'Hara , Dave Blossom

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

It seems Ken can't do anything right. He loses saddle blankets and breaks reins...but then comes th… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Edward Eggleston, F. Opper, W.E.B. Starkweather

7. The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana

By: Edward Eggleston , F. Opper , W.E.B. Starkweather

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A novel by the American author, historian and Methodist Minister whose tales (especially the Hoosie… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson

8. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

By: Marcus Luttrell , Patrick Robinson

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan fo… read more

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Cover of Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight, Marguerite Kirmse

9. Lassie Come-Home

By: Eric Knight , Marguerite Kirmse

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A beloved classic gets a beautiful new look. Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. B… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • animals
  • young adult
  • dogs
  • fiction
Cover of Love's Enduring Promise (Love Comes Softly #2) by Janette Oke

10. Love's Enduring Promise (Love Comes Softly #2)

By: Janette Oke

3.42

Format: None pages,

Tragedy brought them together, but love bound them into a family.Clark and Marty Davis, the pioneer… read more

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  • fiction

11. Irish Red

By: Jim Kjelgaard

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

For all his champion Irish setter blood, Mike was a misfit. Danny Pickett and his father tried ever… read more

Similar categories in Jim Kjelgaard's Irish Red book and Jim Kjelgaard's Irish Red

  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • animals
  • young adult
  • dogs
  • fiction

12. Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog

By: Ted Kerasote

3.78

Format: 584 pages, Hardcover

While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote met a dog--a Labrador mix--who was living on his own in the w… read more

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13. Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

By: John Grogan

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect… read more

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Cover of The Long Winter (Little House, #6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

14. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • childrens
  • young adult
"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

15. Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)

By: Jean Craighead George , John Schoenherr

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Miyax, like many adolescents, is torn. But unlike most, her choices may determine whether she lives… read more

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16. Savage Sam (Old Yeller, #2)

By: Fred Gipson

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"Gipson again has given us a purely wonderful trunk of Americana, and one of those rare books to be… read more

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17. The Cay (The Cay, #1)

By: Theodore Taylor

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Read Theodore Taylor's classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner The Cay. Phillip is … read more

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18. Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The long winter is finally over, and with spring comes a new job for Laura, town parties, and more … read more

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19. Emeralds for the King

By: Constance Savery , None

4.01

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

It was midnight when young Tosty was roused from his sound sleep and invited by a rude mud-stained … read more

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Cover of Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1) by Patrick O'Brian

20. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

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Old Yeller

Fred Gipson

4.10

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Janette Oke

4.21

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Chris Riddell , Richard Platt

0.00

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Robert Louis Stevenson

3.79

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Laura Hillenbrand

4.38

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Mark Owen , Kevin Maurer

4.02

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4.42

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Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

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