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1

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

20,067 members

438 reviews

3.9

9 Members: parlerodermime, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda, KTIversen1

2

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

25,056 members

455 reviews

4

9 Members: mlfhlibrarian, smcwl, jburlinson, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, jeffza, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda,lee6317

3

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

14,999 members

277 reviews

4.1

7 Members: dara85, smcwl, aulsmith, cej1027, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

32,431 members

535 reviews

4.1

8 Members: mlfhlibrarian, smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

5

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

30,700 members

317 reviews

3.9

7 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, jburlinson, roby72, jesse123, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

6

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

22,097 members

323 reviews

4.1

6 Members: aulsmith, lee6317, ahef1963, jeffza, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11,886 members

94 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, jburlinson, jesse123, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

8

Cheaper by the Dozen

by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

4,452 members

78 reviews

4

6 Members: parlerodermime, dara85, smcwl, aulsmith, merrystar, Elizabeth088

9

by Johanna Spyri

10,572 members

143 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

10

Charlotte's Web

34,116 members

997 reviews

4.2

6 Members: dara85, roby72, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

11

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

11,413 members

176 reviews

4.1

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Five Children and It

4,347 members

68 reviews

3.9

6 Members: mlfhlibrarian, smcwl, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh)

7,834 members

72 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

by Beatrix Potter

3,203 members

20 reviews

3.9

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

1,609 members

23 reviews

3.9

5 Members: mlfhlibrarian, aulsmith, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

16

Winnie-the-Pooh

12,490 members

195 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

24,139 members

1,417 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: lee6317, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza

18

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

9,636 members

157 reviews

4

7 Members: smcwl, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

19

Magic by the Lake

by Edward Eager

1,472 members

20 reviews

4

4 Members: parlerodermime, smcwl, aulsmith, mkbird

20

The Diary of a Young Girl

26,766 members

500 reviews

4.1

5 Members: dara85, smcwl, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

21

The Railway Children

5,390 members

80 reviews

3.9

5 Members: mlfhlibrarian, aulsmith, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

22

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

31,460 members

416 reviews

3.8

5 Members: jburlinson, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

23

The Marvelous Land of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

3,330 members

73 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, jburlinson, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

24

James and the Giant Peach

18,303 members

347 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, jeffza, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Charles Dickens

22,592 members

223 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

26

The Sword in the Stone

3,124 members

47 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mlfhlibrarian, aulsmith, thecoroner

27

by Carlo Collodi

7,524 members

133 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

28

The Boxcar Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

8,202 members

94 reviews

4

5 Members: dara85, aulsmith, lee6317, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Charlotte Brontë

55,595 members

882 reviews

4.2

5 Members: smcwl, jburlinson, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

30

by J. M. Barrie

17,404 members

302 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, jburlinson, roby72, ahef1963, Elizabeth088,lee6317

31

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

14,655 members

210 reviews

4.2

4 Members: smcwl, merrystar, lee6317, Elizabeth088,ahef1963

32

Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

8,882 members

76 reviews

4

4 Members: smcwl, jburlinson, jesse123, Elizabeth088

33

Fables of Aesop

6,459 members

79 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

34

by J. R. R. Tolkien

88,653 members

1,155 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: jesse123, ahef1963, jeffza, Elizabeth088,aulsmith

35

by Louisa May Alcott

4,278 members

52 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

36

by Louisa May Alcott

7,499 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

37

7,734 members

125 reviews

3.9

6 Members: parlerodermime, smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

38

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,934 members

456 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: jesse123, ahef1963, jeffza

39

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

22,696 members

472 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jburlinson, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

40

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

42,638 members

729 reviews

4.1

5 Members: smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Water Babies

by Charles Kingsley

2,733 members

42 reviews

½ 3.3

4 Members: mkbird, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

42

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

9,115 members

93 reviews

4.2

4 Members: dara85, aulsmith, merrystar, ahef1963

43

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

16,319 members

416 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: parlerodermime, smcwl, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,297 members

279 reviews

3.9

4 Members: mlfhlibrarian, smcwl, jesse123, ahef1963

45

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

16,664 members

236 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lee6317, ahef1963

46

by Louisa May Alcott

4,614 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: aulsmith, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

47

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

19,514 members

505 reviews

4.1

4 Members: mlfhlibrarian, smcwl, lee6317, ahef1963

48

The Secret Island

351 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: mlfhlibrarian, smcwl, lee6317

49

Rilla of Ingleside

by L. M. Montgomery

5,871 members

59 reviews

4.1

3 Members: parlerodermime, merrystar, Elizabeth088

50

by P. D. Eastman

1,338 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: mkbird, jesse123, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

7,601 members

92 reviews

4.2

4 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, lee6317, ahef1963

52

by Louisa May Alcott

2,549 members

32 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

53

When We Were Very Young

5,111 members

51 reviews

4.2

4 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, lee6317, ahef1963

54

by P. L. Travers

5,864 members

155 reviews

3.9

4 Members: smcwl, merrystar, lee6317, Elizabeth088,aulsmith

55

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

8,169 members

87 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: smcwl, jburlinson, roby72, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

1,837 members

46 reviews

4

3 Members: mlfhlibrarian, mkbird, Elizabeth088

57

Beezus and Ramona

by Beverly Cleary

6,457 members

110 reviews

3.9

4 Members: smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

58

Little House on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

14,377 members

217 reviews

4.1

3 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

59

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Brothers Grimm

811 members

8 reviews

4.2

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963,lee6317

60

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,500 members

251 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jburlinson, lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

61

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

10,510 members

98 reviews

4.1

3 Members: parlerodermime, smcwl, ahef1963

62

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

23,487 members

237 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

63

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

48,279 members

449 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, Elizabeth088

64

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

4,503 members

64 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mkbird, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Secret of the Old Clock

by Carolyn Keene

6,339 members

104 reviews

3.8

4 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

66

20,488 members

456 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

67

By the Shores of Silver Lake

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

9,212 members

66 reviews

4

3 Members: parlerodermime, smcwl, ahef1963

68

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

9,670 members

116 reviews

4

3 Members: smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963

69

by Robert Louis Stevenson

10,054 members

116 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mlfhlibrarian, jburlinson, ahef1963

70

1,185 members

23 reviews

3.9

4 Members: lee6317, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda

71

Green Eggs and Ham

20,619 members

693 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: smcwl, jesse123, ahef1963, Rusty37,aulsmith

72

Knight's Castle

by Edward Eager

1,450 members

19 reviews

4.2

3 Members: parlerodermime, smcwl, aulsmith

73

Understood Betsy

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

2,729 members

28 reviews

4.2

3 Members: dara85, smcwl, merrystar

74

by Eleanor H. Porter

4,309 members

61 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

75

by Susan Coolidge

1,953 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: mlfhlibrarian, lee6317, ahef1963

76

The Mystery at Lilac Inn

by Carolyn Keene

3,743 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: dara85, smcwl, aulsmith

77

The Story of the Amulet

1,224 members

11 reviews

3.9

3 Members: parlerodermime, mlfhlibrarian, ahef1963

78

by Maud Hart Lovelace

2,293 members

49 reviews

4.2

3 Members: parlerodermime, smcwl, merrystar

79

The Well-Wishers

by Edward Eager

799 members

7 reviews

4.1

3 Members: parlerodermime, smcwl, aulsmith

80

The Dark is Rising / Greenwitch / The Grey King / Silver on the Tree

by Susan Cooper

54 members

2 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

81

The Enchanted Wood

1,345 members

14 reviews

4.1

3 Members: smcwl, lee6317, Elizabeth088

82

Julie of the Wolves

by Jean Craighead George

7,027 members

119 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mkbird, ahef1963, Elizabeth088

83

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,323 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jburlinson, lee6317, ahef1963

84

by L. Frank Baum

2,975 members

55 reviews

3.9

3 Members: parlerodermime, aulsmith, ahef1963

85

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

37,188 members

914 reviews

4

4 Members: parlerodermime, dara85, merrystar, Elizabeth088,aulsmith

86

Heart: A School-Boy's Journal

by Edmondo De Amicis

851 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

87

Blueberries for Sal

by Robert McCloskey

7,349 members

141 reviews

4.2

3 Members: dara85, smcwl, ManWithAnAgenda

88

Mr. Popper's Penguins

by Richard Atwater

8,756 members

154 reviews

3.9

3 Members: smcwl, mkbird, ManWithAnAgenda

89

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

23,858 members

293 reviews

4.1

4 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, Elizabeth088, ManWithAnAgenda,lee6317

90

Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem

by Emilio Salgari

605 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, mkbird

91

The Cat in the Hat

18,609 members

518 reviews

4.2

4 Members: smcwl, jesse123, ahef1963, Elizabeth088,aulsmith

92

Seven-Day Magic

by Edward Eager

1,150 members

14 reviews

4.2

2 Members: smcwl, aulsmith

93

The Story of Ferdinand

8,242 members

169 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, ahef1963

94

Buttons in the back

by Elizabeth Kirtland

10 members

1 review

4

2 Members: mlfhlibrarian, mkbird

95

by Hans Christian Andersen

24 members

5

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

96

The House on the Cliff

by Franklin W. Dixon

2,901 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jburlinson, ManWithAnAgenda

97

The Paul Street Boys

by Ferenc Molnár

707 members

15 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

98

Belles on Their Toes

by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

1,101 members

17 reviews

3.9

2 Members: parlerodermime, aulsmith

99

The Emerald City of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

2,025 members

26 reviews

3.9

2 Members: parlerodermime, aulsmith

100

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)

by J. R. R. Tolkien

44,838 members

291 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: jesse123, ahef1963

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