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1

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

26,529 members

655 reviews

4

3 Members: bookel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Gary Paulsen

21,732 members

634 reviews

3.8

3 Members: bookel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

14,619 members

162 reviews

4

3 Members: bookel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Island of the Blue Dolphins

by Scott O'Dell

21,739 members

325 reviews

3.9

2 Members: bookel, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

19,607 members

310 reviews

4.1

2 Members: bookel, ahef1963

6

The Trumpet of the Swan

14,264 members

89 reviews

4.1

2 Members: bookel, ahef1963

7

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

12,097 members

110 reviews

4.2

2 Members: bookel, ahef1963

8

Danny the Champion of the World

9,378 members

93 reviews

4

2 Members: bookel, PureChaos

9

by Gary Paulsen

6,866 members

88 reviews

3.8

2 Members: bookel, ahef1963

10

A Walk In Wolf Wood

by Mary Stewart

655 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: bookel, ahef1963

11

by Terry Lynn Johnson

308 members

17 reviews

4.2

2 Members: bookel, PureChaos

12

Baked Beans for Breakfast

116 members

3 reviews

4

2 Members: bookel, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Bones on Black Spruce Mountain

by David Budbill

100 members

½ 2.5

2 Members: bookel, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Theodore Taylor

5,162 members

88 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

15

by Gary Paulsen

5,068 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bookel

16

The Secret at Shadow Ranch

by Carolyn Keene

4,784 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bookel

17

by Gary Paulsen

4,141 members

40 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

18

Pippi in the South Seas

by Astrid Lindgren

3,674 members

23 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

19

by Gary Paulsen

3,270 members

42 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

20

by Gary Paulsen

2,327 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

21

by Oliver Jeffers

2,133 members

66 reviews

4.1

Member: bookel

22

The Magic Faraway Tree

1,938 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: bookel

23

The Midnight Fox

1,421 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bookel

24

1,396 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bookel

25

by Carol Ryrie Brink

1,156 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bookel

26

Sarah Whitcher's Story

by Elizabeth Yates

1,152 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bookel

27

This Moose Belongs to Me

by Oliver Jeffers

1,119 members

57 reviews

4

Member: bookel

28

Waiting for Anya

by Michael Morpurgo

884 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

29

869 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

30

A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog

by Mercer Mayer

740 members

26 reviews

4.1

Member: bookel

31

by Avi

694 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bookel

32

by Megan E. Freeman

656 members

27 reviews

4.2

Member: bookel

33

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle

by Leslie Connor

614 members

24 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bookel

34

by Jenn Bennett

519 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: bookel

35

The Creeping Shadows

by Lois Walfrid Johnson

483 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: bookel

36

The Secret Three

by Mildred Myrick

476 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: bookel

37

The Vanishing Footprints

by Lois Walfrid Johnson

461 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

38

The Madman of Piney Woods

by Christopher Paul Curtis

456 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bookel

39

438 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bookel

40

King of the Cloud Forests

by Michael Morpurgo

426 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

41

by Jean Slaughter Doty

418 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: bookel

42

Ghost Dog Secrets

382 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

43

The Canyon's Edge

by Dusti Bowling

317 members

17 reviews

4.2

Member: bookel

44

Christmas at Long Pond (Republished as: Winter at Long Pond)

by William T. George

301 members

4 reviews

4

Member: bookel

45

by Cynthia Voigt

288 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: bookel

46

Danger on Midnight River

by Gary Paulsen

286 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bookel

47

by Gary Paulsen

277 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bookel

48

by Marian Cockrell

267 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bookel

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248 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bookel

50

by Jean Slaughter Doty

242 members

8 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bookel

51

The Skeleton Tree

by Iain Lawrence

239 members

27 reviews

4

Member: bookel

52

by James Houston

232 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: bookel

53

by Michael Morpurgo

221 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bookel

54

by Janet Taylor Lisle

220 members

2 reviews

3.1

Member: bookel

55

The Kingdom by the Sea

by Robert Westall

217 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: bookel

56

Toughboy and Sister

by Kirkpatrick Hill

211 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

57

Mystery in the Pirate Oak

by Helen Fuller Orton

197 members

1 review

4

Member: bookel

58

Magic in the Park

190 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bookel

59

A Taste of Smoke

by Marion Dane Bauer

174 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bookel

60

by Terry Lynn Johnson

173 members

6 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: bookel

61

158 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

62

by Edward Myers

158 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bookel

63

by Rumer Godden

157 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bookel

64

Flight of the White Wolf

156 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: bookel

65

The Watcher in the Woods

by Florence Engel Randall

151 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bookel

66

by Gary L. Blackwood

148 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: bookel

67

Abandoned (Peabody Adventure Series #6)

146 members

½ 4.4

Member: bookel

68

143 members

4.1

Member: bookel

69

The Mystery of the Great Swamp

by Marjorie A Zapf

142 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bookel

70

The Ghost Rock Mystery

by Mary C. Jane

136 members

1 review

4.8

Member: bookel

71

by Marilyn Sachs

135 members

5 reviews

4

Member: bookel

72

Brothers of the Heart: A Story of the Old Northwest 1837-1838

by Joan W. Blos

134 members

3.9

Member: bookel

73

by Allan Baillie

132 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: bookel

74

The Tree That Sat Down

by Beverley Nichols

129 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: bookel

75

Nightmare Mountain

126 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bookel

76

The Secret of Saturday Cove

by Barbee Oliver Carleton

124 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bookel

77

by Brandon Wallace

124 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: bookel

78

Mystery on Nine-Mile Marsh

by Mary C. Jane

122 members

½ 3.3

Member: bookel

79

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

by Alden R. Carter

121 members

½ 3.3

Member: bookel

80

by Carol Carrick

119 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bookel

81

Stand in the Wind

117 members

1 review

4.2

Member: bookel

82

by Mary Francis Shura

111 members

½ 3.4

Member: bookel

83

Lassie and The Mystery at Blackberry Bog

by Dorothea J. Snow

105 members

4

Member: bookel

84

by Marian Rumsey

104 members

3

Member: bookel

85

103 members

1 review

3

Member: bookel

86

Those Dreadful Children

102 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bookel

87

by William Judson

96 members

½ 4.3

Member: bookel

88

Two on an Island

by Bianca Bradbury

95 members

3.9

Member: bookel

89

by Mary Francis Shura

95 members

½ 2.5

Member: bookel

90

The Island Keeper

94 members

1 review

3.8

Member: bookel

91

Distress Signal

by Mary E. Lambert

93 members

3

Member: bookel

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by Matt Christopher

92 members

Member: bookel

93

Harper and Moon

by Ramon Royal Ross

91 members

2 reviews

4

Member: bookel

94

Fast-Talking Dolphin

by Carson Davidson

90 members

Member: bookel

95

Hunter in the dark

by Monica Hughes

89 members

1 review

3.1

Member: bookel

96

High country adventure

by Marian Rumsey

88 members

½ 3.5

Member: bookel

97

Wilderness Peril

by Thomas J. Dygard

86 members

½ 4.3

Member: bookel

98

My Wolf, My Friend

by Barbara Corcoran

86 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: bookel

99

by Andre Norton

85 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: bookel

100

Nowhere on Earth

84 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bookel

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