9 must-read classics books like The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1) by Barbara Robinson

Cover of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1) by Barbara Robinson

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant…

"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

If you liked the classics plot in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1) by Barbara Robinson , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Family Under the Bridge by Garth Williams, Natalie Savage Carlson

1. The Family Under the Bridge

By: Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"You're afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if they find out you have one."

-Garth Williams, The Family Under the Bridge

Cover of Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

2. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser

3. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another mem… read more

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  • christmas
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

4. The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

4.88

Format: 242 pages,

The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great hous… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1) by Andrew       Peterson

5. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

By: Andrew Peterson

4.33

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Once, in a cottage above the cliffs on the Dark Sea of Darkness, there lived three children and the… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire."

-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

"Esben Igiby was seeping into Janner’s thoughts, and there was no way to seal the leak."

-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

"But other than the cruel fangs and the constant threat of death and torture, there wasn't much to fear in Skree."

-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

"There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather b…"

-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

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6. Letters from Father Christmas

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater, Robert Lawson

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
  • juvenile

8. Born Again

By: Charles W. Colson

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

In 1974 Charles W. Colson pleaded guilty to Watergate-related offenses and, after a tumultuous inve… read more

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9. 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
  • 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

10. Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

By: Richard J. Maybury

5.00

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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Cover of Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1) by Patricia MacLachlan

11. Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

By: Patricia MacLachlan

3.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

"There are always things to miss," said Maggie. "No matter where you are."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

"My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound sea the water is a color for which there is no name."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

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12. A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled wit… read more

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  • christmas
  • holiday
  • fiction
"Hallo, my fine fellow!"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"God bless us, every one!"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"And how did little Tim behave?"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"Marley was dead: to begin with."

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

13. Harvey

By: Mary Chase

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

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Cover of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1) by Barbara Robinson

14. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1) book and Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

  • audiobook
  • classics
  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • holiday
  • young adult
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

15. The True Gift: A Christmas Story

By: Brian Floca , Patricia MacLachlan

4.15

Format: 128 pages,

Liam and Lily are doing all they can to find a friend for White Cow... With help from the community… read more

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Cover of Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline by AmblesideOnline Education Foundation

16. 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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Cover of Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too by Cindy Rollins

17. 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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  • 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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18. Nothing Else But Miracles

By: Kate Albus

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy … read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Money Mystery by Richard J. Maybury

19. The Money Mystery

By: Richard J. Maybury

4.02

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

During the 1980s the velocity of circulation of the dollar became erratic; now the whole country is… read more

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Cover of The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

20. The Sign of the Beaver

By: Elizabeth George Speare

3.87

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring th… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of Honest, Simple Souls: An Advent Meditation with Charlotte Mason by Anne E. White

21. Honest, Simple Souls: An Advent Meditation with Charlotte Mason

By: Anne E. White

4.68

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

In the church year, the long season of post-Pentecost, post-everything-else is drawing to a close. … read more

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  • christmas

13 Best fiction books like The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1) by Barbara Robinson

Transform Your Habits

The Family Under the Bridge

Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

Karina Yan Glaser

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Door in the Wall

Marguerite de Angeli

4.88

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22 Top fiction books like The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

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Secret of the Andes (Puffin Newberry Library)

Ann Nolan Clark

3.54

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Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Thimble Summer

Elizabeth Enright

3.75

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A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32

Joan W. Blos

3.54

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