21 must-read fiction books like More Perfect than the Moon (Sarah, Plain and Tall #4) by Patricia MacLachlan

Cover of More Perfect than the Moon (Sarah, Plain and Tall #4) by Patricia MacLachlan

More Perfect than the Moon (Sarah, Plain and Tall #4)

By: Patricia MacLachlan

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The fourth book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tallby Pat…

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1. All the Places to Love

By: Patricia MacLachlan , Mike Wimmer

4.41

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A picture book celebration of love by the Newbery Medal–winning author, Patricia MacLachlan, with l… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world?"

-Patricia MacLachlan, All the Places to Love

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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
  • 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. 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

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  • 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

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4. 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
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-Tacy, #2)

By: Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

3.82

Format: 224 pages,

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Then There Were Five (The Melendy Family, #3) by Elizabeth Enright

6. 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

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
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7. 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

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
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8. The Penderwicks in Spring (The Penderwicks, #4)

By: Jeanne Birdsall

4.01

Format: 175 pages, Hardcover

Springtime is finally arriving on Gardam Street, and there are surprises in store for each member o… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Kristy and the Walking Disaster (The Baby-Sitters Club, #20) by Ann M. Martin

9. Kristy and the Walking Disaster (The Baby-Sitters Club, #20)

By: Ann M. Martin

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

They're lean, they're mean, they're the pride of Stoneybrook. Who are they? They're Kristy's Krushe… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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10. 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
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of More Perfect than the Moon (Sarah, Plain and Tall #4) by Patricia MacLachlan

11. More Perfect than the Moon (Sarah, Plain and Tall #4)

By: Patricia MacLachlan

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The fourth book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tallby Pat… read more

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

12. 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

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Wheel on the School by Maurice Sendak, Meindert DeJong

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

14. Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (Betsy-Tacy, #4)

By: Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are twelve--old enough to do lots of things...even go downtown on their own. T… read more

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

15. 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
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile

16. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more

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17. The Greatest Gift (Heartwood Hotel, #2)

By: Kallie George , Stephanie Graegin

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Mona the mouse has finally found a place to call home, the cozy Heartwood Hotel, where she works as… read more

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18. 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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19. Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind Family, #5)

By: Sydney Taylor

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

World War I has ended, and Ella, the oldest of the five sisters, who dreams of singing and dancing … read more

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20. Ramona's World (Ramona, #8)

By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Ramona Quimby can't wait to start fourth grade. With a new baby sister to brag about, new calluses … read more

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21. Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (Betsy-Tacy, #3)

By: Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Betsy, Tacy, and Tib can't wait to be ten. After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginn… read more

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22. The Cabin Faced West

By: Jean Fritz

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ann Hamilton's family has moved to the western frontier of Pennsylvania, and she misses her old hom… read more

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23. Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing--his very own… read more

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Cover of All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #2) by Sydney Taylor

24. All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #2)

By: Sydney Taylor

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sydney Taylor grew up among immigrant families on New York City's Lower East Side prior to World Wa… read more

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

25. Little House in Brookfield (Little House: The Caroline Years, #1)

By: Dan Andreasen , Maria D. Wilkes

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Spirit of the Western Frontier: Meet Caroline Quiner, the little girl who would grow up to be Laura… read more

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Cover of The Penderwicks at Point Mouette (The Penderwicks, #3) by Jeanne Birdsall

26. The Penderwicks at Point Mouette (The Penderwicks, #3)

By: Jeanne Birdsall

4.36

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

With over one million copies sold, this series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick fam… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2) by Jeanne Birdsall

27. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

By: Jeanne Birdsall

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Penderwick sisters are home on Gardam Street and ready for an adventure! But the adventure they… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

"I got a C because she has no imagination. Who cares about writing essays, anyway, when you can write stories?"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

"The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a…"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

"[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice…"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

Cover of The Undercover Book List by Colleen Nelson

28. The Undercover Book List

By: Colleen Nelson

4.29

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

He's known as the class troublemaker. She's known as the bookworm. But when every note they send is… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Penderwicks at Last (The Penderwicks, #5) by Jeanne Birdsall

29. The Penderwicks at Last (The Penderwicks, #5)

By: Jeanne Birdsall

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Nine years, five older siblings, a few beloved dogs, and an endless array of adventures--these are … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"Ready, Lydia?" Jack asked, "Can you run?" Could she? A bobolink warbled the answer. "Yes," said Lydia, all hope and exhilaration. "Yes, I can." And away they went. the three together, prancing, leapi…"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks at Last (The Penderwicks, #5)

Cover of Better Together (Heartwood Hotel, #3) by Kallie George

30. Better Together (Heartwood Hotel, #3)

By: Kallie George

4.39

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Spring has sprung and the animal staff of the Heartwood Hotel gear up for another busy season in th… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Light and Air by Mindy Nichols Wendell

31. Light and Air

By: Mindy Nichols Wendell

4.34

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory i… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12 Top classics books like More Perfect than the Moon (Sarah, Plain and Tall #4) by Patricia MacLachlan

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Elizabeth Enright

4.17

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Gone-Away Lake

Elizabeth Enright , Joe Krush , Beth Krush

4.14

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The Courage of Sarah Noble

Leonard Weisgard , Alice Dalgliesh

3.33

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Cecil Leslie , E. Nesbit

3.94

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Jeanne Birdsall

4.19

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