The Burgess Animal Book for Children
By: Thornton W. Burgess , None
4.27
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
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1. 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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2. George Washington's World: Life Story of George Washington, A wonderful Narratives Explored by the writer
By: Joanna Foster , Genevieve Foster
4.05
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
1942 Newbery Honor Title The period measured by the life of George Washington, 1732 to 1799, was… read more
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3. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
4. Tree in the Trail
By: Holling Clancy Holling
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The history of the Great Plains and the Santa Fe Trail is told in text and pictures by focusing on … read more
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- nature
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5. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
By: Howard Pyle
4.07
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Dünya tarihinin en ünlü halk kahramanlarından biri olan Robin Hood, zorlu bir dönemde ortaya çıkmış… read more
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"Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
"So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
"I had to pay a ransom of six hundred pounds in gold. All might have gone well even yet, only that, by ins and outs and crookedness of laws, I was shorn like a sheep that is clipped to the quick."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
"Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the worm getteth him, as our good gossip Swanthold sayeth; so let life be merry while it lasts, say I."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
6. The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
By: Helen Sewell , Alice Dalgliesh
3.81
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
Are there bears on Hemlock Mountain? One boy is about to find out in this classic tale. People hav… read more
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7. The Incredible Journey
By: Sheila Burnford
4.16
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, … read more
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"He broke into a run, faster and faster, until the years fell away, and he hurled himself towards Peter. And as he had never run before, as though he would outdistance time, Peter was running towards …"-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
"Lying awake in the dark that night,unable to sleep, he thought he would have given anything to feel the heavy thud on the bed that used to announce the old dog's arrival. How extremely unloving and i…"-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
"Anyone unaccustomed to the rather peculiar points of bull terrier beauty would have thought him a strange if not downright ugly dog, with the maked, down-faced arc of his profile, his deep-chested, s…"-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
8. Just So Stories
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The B… read more
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9. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more
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"And life is all a variorum, at the best."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
10. Seabird: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
By: Holling Clancy Holling
4.02
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
A 1949 Newbery Honor Book The history of America at sea is presented through the travels of Seabir… read more
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11. The Aesop for Children
By: Aesop , Milo Winter , H.Y. Xiao
3.32
Format: None pages,
Here are 126 of the best loved classic fables, including such favorites as 'The Town Mouse And The … read more
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12. 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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13. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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14. 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
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15. Joan of Arc
By: Diane Stanley
3.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Against the fascinating tapestry of France's history during the Hundred Years War, Diane Stanley un… read more
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16. 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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- childrens
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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
17. American Tall Tales
By: Adrien Stoutenburg
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Eight exciting classic American Tall Tales! This collection includes the famed stories of Paul Buny… read more
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18. Pagoo
By: Holling Clancy Holling , None
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An intricate study of tide pool life is presented in text and pictures through the story of Pagoo, … read more
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19. The Children of the New Forest
By: Frederick Marryat
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is … read more
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20. The Burgess Animal Book for Children
By: Thornton W. Burgess , None
4.27
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who … read more
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21. 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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22. Columbus
By: Ingri d'Aulaire , Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
A life of the Genoese weaver's son who sought to prove the world is round, telling how he studied m… read more
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23. Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)
By: Charlotte M. Mason
4.53
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
Book by Mason, Charlotte M. read more
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"Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood."-Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)
24. 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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25. 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
26. Secrets of the Woods (Yesterday's Classics)
By: William Joseph Long
4.08
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Vivid sketches of the wood-mouse, otter, kingfisher, red squirrel, partridge, deer, and other wood … read more
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27. Parables from Nature (Yesterday's Classics)
By: Mrs. Alfred Gatty
4.03
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Parables for children inspired by nature. This collection includes all 29 stories from the first, s… read more
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28. Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures
By: George M. Towle
3.91
Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1271, at the age of seventeen, Marco Polo, his father, and his uncle, set off from Venice for As… read more
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29. Mother Culture
By: Karen Andreola
4.35
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Be encouraged in the skillful art of looking after the ways of your household, while taking a littl… read more
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30. AmblesideOnline Poetry Anthology Volume Two: Walter de la Mare, Eugene Field, James Whitcomb Riley, Christina Rossetti
By: Donna-Jean A. Breckenridge
4.71
Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A student] should have practice, too, in reading aloud, for the most part, in the books he is usi… read more
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31. Leonardo da Vinci
By: Emily Hahn
3.67
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Leonardo da Vinci, inventor extraordinarie and artist, is illustrated beautifully in this historica… read more
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