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1

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

by Judi Barrett

10,529 members

330 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

11,773 members

177 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

5,202 members

90 reviews

4.1

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

4

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

74,931 members

1,183 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

98,452 members

1,220 reviews

½ 4.3

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

6

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

31,953 members

514 reviews

3.8

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

7

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,898 members

151 reviews

3.8

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

8

The Horse and His Boy

26,921 members

245 reviews

3.9

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

9

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

38,240 members

464 reviews

3.9

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

10

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

11,926 members

104 reviews

4.1

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

11

Winnie-the-Pooh

14,179 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

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

12

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

16,497 members

219 reviews

4.2

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

13

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

by Betty MacDonald

5,017 members

43 reviews

4.1

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

14

Charlotte's Web

37,544 members

1,038 reviews

4.2

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

15

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

17,255 members

294 reviews

4.1

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

16

To Kill a Mockingbird

81,564 members

1,464 reviews

½ 4.4

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

17

41,924 members

1,614 reviews

4.2

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

18

The Story of Ferdinand

9,794 members

174 reviews

½ 4.3

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

19

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

11,188 members

161 reviews

4

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

20

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

44,703 members

532 reviews

3.9

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

21

by Johanna Spyri

12,798 members

165 reviews

3.9

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

22

The House at Pooh Corner

8,873 members

82 reviews

½ 4.4

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

23

The Cat in the Hat

21,930 members

540 reviews

4.2

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

24

Beezus and Ramona

by Beverly Cleary

8,458 members

127 reviews

3.9

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

25

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

8,620 members

94 reviews

4.2

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

26

by Gary Paulsen

18,686 members

598 reviews

3.8

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

27

Green Eggs and Ham

24,225 members

725 reviews

½ 4.3

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

28

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare

11,667 members

216 reviews

4

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

29

The Call of the Wild

20,863 members

329 reviews

3.8

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

30

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

23,251 members

442 reviews

3.9

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

31

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

by E. L. Konigsburg

17,196 members

285 reviews

4.2

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

32

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

37,942 members

383 reviews

½ 3.4

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

33

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

5,386 members

87 reviews

4.1

8 Members: smcwl, BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, Mama_Smurf

34

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

55,692 members

786 reviews

3.9

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

35

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

25,955 members

540 reviews

4.1

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

36

The Door in the Wall

by Marguerite De Angeli

6,233 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea, Mama_Smurf, Stellanna

37

8,754 members

114 reviews

3.9

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

38

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

35,781 members

445 reviews

3.8

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

39

by Peggy Parish

8,159 members

212 reviews

4.1

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

40

The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast

18,137 members

156 reviews

4.1

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

41

Cheaper by the Dozen

by Jr. Frank B. Gilbreth

4,913 members

83 reviews

4

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

42

Viking Adventure

by Clyde Robert Bulla

1,161 members

6 reviews

3.8

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

43

Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

9,944 members

80 reviews

4

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

44

Mere Christianity

27,393 members

223 reviews

½ 4.3

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

45

6,769 members

96 reviews

4.1

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

46

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

39,947 members

444 reviews

3.9

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

47

39,619 members

518 reviews

4.1

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

48

by S. E. Hinton

22,274 members

701 reviews

4

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

49

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

34,378 members

332 reviews

3.9

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

50

The Children's Book of Virtues

by William J. Bennett

3,078 members

8 reviews

4.2

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

51

Little Women {Part First}

by Louisa May Alcott

29,416 members

430 reviews

4

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

52

Make Way for Ducklings

by Robert McCloskey

11,427 members

190 reviews

½ 4.3

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

53

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

54,586 members

726 reviews

3.9

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

54

Pride and Prejudice

84,106 members

1,392 reviews

½ 4.4

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

55

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

16,829 members

312 reviews

4.1

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

56

by P. D. Eastman

10,541 members

152 reviews

4.1

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

57

Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlan

12,458 members

301 reviews

3.8

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

58

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

35,564 members

482 reviews

4.1

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

59

The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

13,051 members

345 reviews

4.1

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

60

Number the Stars

19,689 members

665 reviews

4.2

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

61

The Chalk Box Kid

by Clyde Robert Bulla

2,738 members

26 reviews

3.8

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

62

by Carolyn Haywood

952 members

10 reviews

3.9

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

63

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,732 members

117 reviews

½ 3.6

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

64

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

18,301 members

442 reviews

½ 4.3

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

65

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Kate DiCamillo

16,347 members

591 reviews

4.1

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

66

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

18,082 members

427 reviews

4.1

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

67

Put Me in the Zoo

by Robert Lopshire

5,444 members

43 reviews

3.9

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

68

Jane Eyre [Norton Critical Edition]

by Charlotte Brontë

1,753 members

17 reviews

½ 4.4

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

69

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

by Barbara Robinson

7,404 members

117 reviews

4.2

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

70

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

12,590 members

150 reviews

4

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

71

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

by Beatrix Potter

3,977 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

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

72

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

by Margaret Sidney

4,110 members

48 reviews

3.9

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

73

The Mysterious Benedict Society

by Trenton Lee Stewart

9,415 members

280 reviews

4

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

74

by Beowulf Poet

26,511 members

338 reviews

3.8

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

75

by Mary Shelley

44,717 members

730 reviews

3.8

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

76

by Beverly Cleary

5,841 members

41 reviews

3.9

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

77

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective

by Donald J. Sobol

4,339 members

37 reviews

3.9

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

78

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

by Bill Jr. Martin

15,704 members

803 reviews

½ 4.3

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

79

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

23,052 members

622 reviews

4

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

80

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

24,175 members

396 reviews

½ 3.6

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

81

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

by Esphyr Slobodkina

10,582 members

176 reviews

4.1

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

82

by Claire Huchet Bishop

2,913 members

18 reviews

4.1

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

83

by Ludwig Bemelmans

11,400 members

263 reviews

4.2

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

84

Around the World in Eighty Days

17,841 members

273 reviews

3.8

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

85

The Boxcar Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

9,445 members

105 reviews

4

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

86

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

8,754 members

77 reviews

4

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

87

by Ezra Jack Keats

16,047 members

777 reviews

4.2

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

88

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

by Felicity Brooks

796 members

1 review

4.2

5 Members: theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, kidsread, cej1027, HayleyAF

89

The Hundred Dresses

by Eleanor Estes

7,255 members

139 reviews

4

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

90

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

by Bette Bao Lord

3,218 members

22 reviews

3.8

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

91

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

by Virginia Lee Burton

7,431 members

78 reviews

4.2

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

92

by Thornton Wilder

5,326 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

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

93

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

9,228 members

91 reviews

½ 3.5

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

94

The Incredible Journey

by Sheila Burnford

6,026 members

76 reviews

3.9

6 Members: BookWallah, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ColleenRenea

95

Harold and the Purple Crayon

by Crockett Johnson

8,296 members

218 reviews

½ 4.3

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

96

by Robert McCloskey

4,318 members

25 reviews

4.1

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

97

Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates

by Mary Mapes Dodge

4,264 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: theresearcher, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, Stellanna

98

by Elizabeth George Speare

5,131 members

55 reviews

4.1

6 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, TillyJ, Mama_Smurf

99

5,496 members

41 reviews

4.2

6 Members: smcwl, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, ahef1963, tlohry, Mama_Smurf

100

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

4,402 members

70 reviews

4.1

6 Members: BookWallah, merrystar, AllWaysLearning, cej1027, ahef1963, Stellanna

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