Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
By: Arthur Ransome
4.01
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for…
Want to Read $ 7.99"Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown."-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
"But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforting."-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
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1. Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis & Clark
By: James Daugherty
3.87
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Newbery and Caldecott Medal winner James Daugherty has applied his literary and artistic skill to b… read more
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2. Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution
By: Natalie S. Bober
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Abigail Adams is often referred to as the wife of one president and the mother of another. Rarely i… read more
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3. The Railway Children
By: E. Nesbit
4.02
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more
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"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
4. The Other Side of Truth
By: Beverley Naidoo
3.75
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
After the murder of their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her younger brother are smuggled out of … read more
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5. 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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"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
6. 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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8. Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
By: Arthur Ransome
4.01
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for… read more
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"Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown."-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
"But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforti…"-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
9. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
By: Diane Stanley , Peter Vennema
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. … read more
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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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"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
11. Fifty Famous Stories Retold
By: James Baldwin
3.85
Format: 132 pages,
There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and t… read more
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12. 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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13. The King of the Golden River
By: John Ruskin , None
3.44
Format: 326 pages,
Little gem of Victorian literature, written in 1842 and published in 1851, tells a tale of the two … read more
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14. 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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15. 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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16. My Name is Seepeetza
By: None
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a board… read more
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17. Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline
By: AmblesideOnline Education Foundation
4.72
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
The AmblesideOnline Advisory began as a band of mothers who followed God and the vitalizing ideas o… read more
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18. 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
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"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
19. Know and Tell: The Art of Narration
By: Karen Glass
4.52
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Narration, the art of telling, has been used as a pedagogical tool since ancient times. Over one hu… read more
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20. Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read
By: S.D. Smith
4.24
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Mooses with And Other Stories Children Should Never Read is a fun collection of stories. It’s exac… read more
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"I was born at a very early age."-S.D. Smith, Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read
