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1

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

by Judi Barrett

12,386 members

335 reviews

4.2

11 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, kidsread, cej1027, ahef1963, Curlybwc, Dennis-baraka, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, ColleenRenea

2

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

by Robert C. O'Brien

13,347 members

187 reviews

4.2

11 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, cndeangelis, Dennis-baraka, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, bugsbooksbaobabs, tlohry

3

The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body

6,214 members

91 reviews

4.2

11 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, kidsread, TendingEmbers, cej1027, ahef1963, Dennis-baraka, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ

4

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,006 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

10 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, tlohry, Mama_Smurf
Explanations: cej1027: Read, but didn't like.

5

by J. R. R. Tolkien

107,559 members

1,301 reviews

½ 4.3

9 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, TendingEmbers, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,437 members

562 reviews

3.8

9 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, tlohry

7

To Kill a Mockingbird

90,084 members

1,559 reviews

½ 4.4

10 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, Mama_Smurf, Adhumphreys

8

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,968 members

167 reviews

3.8

8 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, cndeangelis, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea

9

The Horse and His Boy

30,533 members

272 reviews

3.9

9 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, Stellanna

10

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

18,352 members

232 reviews

4.2

11 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, LilWilsMom, Stellanna

11

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

42,099 members

491 reviews

3.9

9 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, TillyJ, tlohry, Mama_Smurf

12

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

13,374 members

112 reviews

4.1

10 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, Mama_Smurf

13

Winnie-the-Pooh

15,976 members

223 reviews

½ 4.3

10 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, tlohry, Mama_Smurf, Stellanna

14

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

26,657 members

479 reviews

3.9

10 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, tlohry, Adhumphreys

15

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

by Betty MacDonald

5,611 members

47 reviews

4.1

9 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, tlohry

16

Charlotte's Web

41,470 members

1,069 reviews

4.2

9 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, TillyJ, tlohry, Stellanna

17

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

19,470 members

306 reviews

4.1

9 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ

18

46,690 members

1,683 reviews

4.1

8 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, ColleenRenea

19

The Chalk Box Kid

by Clyde Robert Bulla

3,367 members

27 reviews

3.8

8 Members: theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, LilWilsMom, HayleyAF, Adhumphreys

20

The Story of Ferdinand

11,343 members

184 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, Ash1ey, tlohry

21

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

12,850 members

174 reviews

4

9 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea

22

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,456 members

585 reviews

3.9

7 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, tlohry

23

by Johanna Spyri

14,406 members

175 reviews

3.9

9 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, TillyJ, Stellanna

24

by Peggy Parish

9,676 members

221 reviews

4.1

9 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, Adhumphreys

25

The House at Pooh Corner

9,881 members

91 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, kidsread, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

6,068 members

97 reviews

4.2

9 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, Mama_Smurf, Adhumphreys

27

The Cat in the Hat

25,310 members

564 reviews

4.2

8 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, tlohry

28

Beezus and Ramona

by Beverly Cleary

9,753 members

134 reviews

3.9

8 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

9,534 members

101 reviews

4.2

9 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ColleenRenea, Mama_Smurf, Stellanna

30

Mere Christianity

30,197 members

247 reviews

4.2

8 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, Mama_Smurf, Adhumphreys

31

Cheaper by the Dozen

by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.

5,363 members

90 reviews

4

9 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ColleenRenea, Adhumphreys

32

by Gary Paulsen

21,992 members

633 reviews

3.8

8 Members: AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, tlohry, Mama_Smurf

33

Green Eggs and Ham

27,735 members

754 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, TillyJ

34

The Door in the Wall

by Marguerite De Angeli

7,025 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

9 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, LilWilsMom, Mama_Smurf, Stellanna

35

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare

12,904 members

225 reviews

4

8 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, ptalibrary, cej1027, TillyJ, ColleenRenea

36

The Call of the Wild

22,841 members

346 reviews

3.8

8 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, tlohry

37

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Kate DiCamillo

19,150 members

621 reviews

4.1

8 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ColleenRenea, LilWilsMom, Adhumphreys

38

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

19,595 members

301 reviews

4.2

7 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, tlohry

39

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,842 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

8 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, tlohry

40

by Beverly Cleary

6,792 members

52 reviews

4

8 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, LilWilsMom, HayleyAF, Adhumphreys

41

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,559 members

869 reviews

3.9

7 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

29,465 members

598 reviews

4.1

8 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, tlohry

43

The Children's Book of Virtues

by William J. Bennett

3,497 members

9 reviews

4.2

8 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, LilWilsMom, Mama_Smurf, Stellanna

44

10,035 members

123 reviews

3.9

7 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, AllWaysLearning, ptalibrary, cej1027, ColleenRenea, tlohry

45

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,924 members

489 reviews

3.8

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, TillyJ, tlohry

46

The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast

19,896 members

165 reviews

4.1

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, Mama_Smurf

47

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

20,731 members

472 reviews

4.1

7 Members: BookWallah, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ColleenRenea, Adhumphreys

48

Viking Adventure

by Clyde Robert Bulla

1,325 members

8 reviews

3.8

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, HayleyAF, Stellanna

49

by P. D. Eastman

12,398 members

164 reviews

4.1

8 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, LilWilsMom, tlohry

50

Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

11,137 members

85 reviews

4

7 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, Mama_Smurf,cej1027

51

by Roger Duvoisin

1,367 members

30 reviews

3.9

7 Members: theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, kidsread, cej1027, ahef1963, LilWilsMom, Adhumphreys

52

7,099 members

101 reviews

4.1

6 Members: BookWallah, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, cndeangelis, TillyJ, ColleenRenea

53

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,904 members

478 reviews

3.9

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, Mama_Smurf

54

44,176 members

570 reviews

4.1

7 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Mama_Smurf

55

by S. E. Hinton

25,957 members

740 reviews

4

7 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ColleenRenea, tlohry

56

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

38,439 members

369 reviews

3.9

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, tlohry

57

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

14,534 members

162 reviews

4

8 Members: theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, LilWilsMom, Stellanna

58

by Louisa May Alcott

33,252 members

473 reviews

4

7 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, TillyJ, Mama_Smurf

59

by Ludwig Bemelmans

13,130 members

273 reviews

4.2

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, LilWilsMom

60

Make Way for Ducklings

by Robert McCloskey

13,072 members

197 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ColleenRenea

61

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,202 members

813 reviews

3.9

7 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea

62

Pride and Prejudice

94,177 members

1,511 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Mama_Smurf

63

All-of-a-Kind Family

by Sydney Taylor

3,839 members

63 reviews

4.2

7 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, Adhumphreys

64

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

19,961 members

328 reviews

4.1

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, tlohry

65

Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlan

13,887 members

307 reviews

3.8

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ColleenRenea

66

The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago: Everyday life through the Ages (Explainers)

by Felicity Brooks

880 members

2 reviews

3.9

6 Members: theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, kidsread, cej1027, LilWilsMom, HayleyAF

67

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,176 members

519 reviews

4.1

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, Mama_Smurf

68

The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

14,838 members

366 reviews

4.1

7 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea

69

The Incredible Journey

by Sheila Burnford

6,767 members

84 reviews

3.9

7 Members: BookWallah, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, LilWilsMom

70

Mr. Popper's Penguins

by Richard Atwater

10,610 members

171 reviews

3.9

7 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, LilWilsMom

71

Number the Stars

22,091 members

691 reviews

4.1

7 Members: theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, TillyJ, ColleenRenea

72

by Carolyn Haywood

1,048 members

10 reviews

3.9

6 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, HayleyAF

73

The Indian in the Cupboard

by Lynne Reid Banks

10,512 members

101 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, LilWilsMom, Stellanna

74

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,271 members

138 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea

75

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

20,324 members

472 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, tlohry,ahef1963

76

The Hundred Dresses

by Eleanor Estes

8,342 members

141 reviews

4

7 Members: theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, LilWilsMom

77

Put Me in the Zoo

by Robert Lopshire

6,452 members

47 reviews

3.9

6 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, cndeangelis

78

Jane Eyre [Norton Critical Edition]

by Charlotte Brontë

1,876 members

16 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: smcwl, AllWaysLearning, ptalibrary, cej1027, ahef1963, ColleenRenea

79

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

by Barbara Robinson

8,765 members

125 reviews

4.2

6 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, ptalibrary, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: The 23 Original Peter Rabbit Books

by Beatrix Potter

4,540 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, Mama_Smurf

81

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Illustrated Junior Libary)

by Margaret Sidney

4,690 members

49 reviews

3.8

7 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, Mama_Smurf

82

The Mysterious Benedict Society

by Trenton Lee Stewart

10,916 members

301 reviews

4

6 Members: merrystar, AllWaysLearning, ptalibrary, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea

83

by Beowulf Poet

29,314 members

362 reviews

3.8

7 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, TillyJ, ColleenRenea

84

by Mary Shelley

51,149 members

811 reviews

3.8

6 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea

85

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective

by Donald J. Sobol

5,046 members

43 reviews

3.9

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

86

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

by Bill Martin, Jr.

18,694 members

826 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, ptalibrary, cej1027, ahef1963, tlohry

87

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

26,386 members

652 reviews

4

7 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea

88

The Family Under the Bridge

by Natalie Savage Carlson

7,920 members

61 reviews

4

7 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, TillyJ, LilWilsMom, tlohry

89

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,394 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ColleenRenea

90

Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys, and Their Monkey Business

by Esphyr Slobodkina

12,267 members

187 reviews

4.1

5 Members: theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, ptalibrary, cej1027, tlohry

91

by Arnold Lobel

3,614 members

21 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ColleenRenea, HayleyAF, Adhumphreys

92

by Claire Huchet Bishop

3,261 members

24 reviews

4.1

6 Members: theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, HayleyAF

93

Around the World in Eighty Days

20,308 members

301 reviews

3.8

6 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, Mama_Smurf

94

The Boxcar Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

11,224 members

116 reviews

4

6 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, Mama_Smurf

95

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

9,805 members

81 reviews

4

6 Members: merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, Mama_Smurf

96

by Ezra Jack Keats

19,715 members

798 reviews

4.2

6 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, tlohry

97

The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 1: Ancient Times, From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Empire

by Susan Wise Bauer

3,102 members

8 reviews

4

6 Members: BookWallah, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, TillyJ, LilWilsMom, Mama_Smurf

98

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

by Bette Bao Lord

3,703 members

23 reviews

3.8

6 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, ptalibrary, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

99

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

by Virginia Lee Burton

8,450 members

85 reviews

4.2

6 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963

100

by Thornton Wilder

5,899 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea

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