9 must-read young adult books like Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

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Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price

By: Robert McCloskey

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Centerburg mightbe your town. Grampa Hercules and his never-ending tall tales, Dulcy Dooner, the un…

If you liked the young adult plot in Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price by Robert McCloskey , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Ben & Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos

By: Robert Lawson

3.82

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

Ever wonder where inventors get their ideas? As it turns out, the great inventor Benjamin Franklin … read more

Similar categories in Robert Lawson's Ben & Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos book and Robert McCloskey's Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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2. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

By: Alexandra Boiger , Betty MacDonald

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells li… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Boiger's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1) book and Robert McCloskey's Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price

  • classics
  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"THIS IS DICK -- DON'T TOUCH!!!"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

"I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

"Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’ Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She…"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

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3. 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
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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4. The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

By: Garth Williams , George Selden

4.04

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tire… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"Harry had been down to Washington Square to hear an open-air concert of chamber music. How you could play chamber music outdoors Chester didn't understand—but it was New York and anything could happe…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish," sighed Chester. "It's getting towards autumn now. And it's so pretty up in Connecticut. All the trees change color. The days get very clear―with a little smoke…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still …"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their face…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

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5. The Chocolate Touch

By: Margot Apple , Patrick Skene Catling

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

In this zany twist on the legend of King Midas and his golden touch, a boy acquires a magical gift … read more

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  • humor
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

6. Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price

By: Robert McCloskey

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Centerburg mightbe your town. Grampa Hercules and his never-ending tall tales, Dulcy Dooner, the un… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. Mr. Popper's Penguins

By: Richard Atwater , Florence Atwater , Robert Lawson

3.97

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

The Poppers unexpectedly come into possession of a penguin, then get a penguin from the zoo who mat… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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8. The Trumpet of the Swan

By: E.B. White , Fred Marcellino

4.10

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trump… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"When in love, one must take risks."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"In almost everyone's life there is one event that changes the whole course of his existence."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

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9. Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

By: Helen L. Taylor

None

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Fifty-five years ago, Helen L. Taylor took John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and simplified the voca… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
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10. 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
"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

Cover of More All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #3) by Sydney Taylor, Mary Stevens

11. More All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #3)

By: Sydney Taylor , Mary Stevens

4.24

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the third book of Sydney Taylor's classic children's series, Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny di… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction

12. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

By: Jean Lee Latham

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to … read more

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13. Mary Poppins Comes Back (Mary Poppins, #2)

By: P.L. Travers , Mary Shepard

4.10

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Ban… read more

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14. 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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15. The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1)

By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary , Louis Darling

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Pb-pb-b-b-b. Pb-pb-b-b-b." With these magic vocables, Ralph the mouse revs up a dream come true--h… read more

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16. The Mystery of the Purple Pool (The Boxcar Children, #38)

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner , Charles Tang

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their gr… read more

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17. Time for God

By: Jacques Philippe

4.60

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Are you too busy to pray? What if you could actually gain time and be more productive by praying? W… read more

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"A person who does not pray habitually, no matter how believing or pious he may be, will not achieve full spiritual growth. Neither will he acquire peace of soul because he will always experience exce…"

-Jacques Philippe, Time for God

18. The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)

By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne

3.88

Format: None pages,

This deluxe edition of The House At Pooh Corneris the perfect way to celebrate the enduring popular… read more

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19. The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot #3)

By: Peter Brown

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The action-packed third installment in Peter Brown's internationally bestselling The Wild Robot ser… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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20. Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts (Christian Heroes: Then and Now)

By: Janet Benge

4.42

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Ida Scudder was sure she would never follow in the footsteps of her medical missionary father. But … read more

Similar categories in Janet Benge's Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts (Christian Heroes: Then and Now) book and Robert McCloskey's Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price

  • childrens
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21. Memory-Making Mom: Building Traditions That Breathe Life Into Your Home

By: Jessica Smartt

4.22

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

What will your children remember of their childhood? Calling all moms who want to break out of mono… read more

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Ben & Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos

Robert Lawson

3.82

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Alexandra Boiger , Betty MacDonald

4.16

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Leonard Weisgard , Alice Dalgliesh

3.33

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4.04

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4.36

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4.34

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