15 Best classics books like The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2) by Elizabeth Enright

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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…

If you liked the classics plot in The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2) by Elizabeth Enright , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)

By: Cecil Leslie , E. Nesbit

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes… read more

Similar categories in Cecil Leslie's The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1) book and Elizabeth Enright's The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"If what we have written brings happiness to any sad heart we shall not have laboured in vain. But we want the money too."

-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)

"Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be."

-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)

"I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this."

-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)

"Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of th…"

-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)

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2. Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-Tacy, #2)

By: Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

3.82

Format: 224 pages,

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
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3. The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.01

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Four Moffat children and a hard-working widowed mother live on New Dollar Street in Cranbury villag… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4)

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

There has never been a museum in Cranbury...until now. Among its treasures are the first bike each … read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Estes's The Moffat Museum (The Moffats, #4) book and Elizabeth Enright's The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
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5. 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
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6. Caleb's Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall #3)

By: Patricia MacLachlan

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Anna has done something terrible. She has given me a journal to fill. "It's your job now," Anna say… read more

Similar categories in Patricia MacLachlan's Caleb's Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall #3) book and Elizabeth Enright's The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)

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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Enright's The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2) book and Elizabeth Enright's The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
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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 Elizabeth Enright's The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Miracles on Maple Hill

By: Beth Krush , Virginia Sorensen

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hil… read more

Similar categories in Beth Krush's Miracles on Maple Hill book and Elizabeth Enright's The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)

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

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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

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

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. All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown (All-of-a-Kind Family, #4)

By: Sydney Taylor

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Based on the author's family and childhood, these charming books capture the everyday life of a hom… read more

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14. 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

Similar categories in Sydney Taylor's More All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #3) book and Elizabeth Enright's The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)

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

15. One Morning in Maine

By: Robert McCloskey

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A Caldecott Honor Book! Today is a specidal day for Sal because she gets to go to Buck's Harbour wi… read more

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16. 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)

17. 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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18. 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
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile

19. Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky

By: Esther Averill

4.13

Format: None pages,

In Greenwich Village an orphaned black cat lives happily with her master, a sea captain. Still, the… read more

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20. 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 Elizabeth Enright's The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)

  • 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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21. The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Return to Harlem's "wildly entertaining" family in this funny, heartwarming sequel. When catastroph… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"Music makes a garden bloom. -Isa"

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

"Keep calm and garden on! -Oliver"

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

"Being in a garden makes we want to dance! -Laney"

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

"A garden should always have a party in it. -Jessie"

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

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3.94

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3.82

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4.01

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3.32

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4.00

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