Controversial Books for DrWoot88

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.390 3.39 Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Cornelia Cornelissen
1.328 3.18 The Vanishings: Four Kids Face Earth's Last Days Together by Jerry B. Jenkins
1.327 3.28 Sir Quinlan and the Swords of Valor (The Knights of Arrethtrae) by Chuck Black
1.229 3.30 Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid by Jeff Kinney
1.178 3.95 A Journey to the Center of the Earth (Great Illustrated Classics) by Jules Verne
1.160 3.87 The Deadly Curse of Toco-Rey by Frank E. Peretti
1.147 3.39 Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
1.145 3.52 Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning (Chicken Soup for the Soul) by Jack Canfield
1.120 3.87 Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
1.116 3.56 Report to the Principal's Office by Jerry Spinelli
1.112 3.93 The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson
1.110 3.52 The Missing Chums by Franklin W. Dixon
1.098 3.78 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1.090 3.56 Five Little Peppers Midway by Margaret Sidney
1.089 3.86 The Secret of the Desert Stone by Frank Peretti
1.087 3.71 Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
1.087 3.84 The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel
1.087 3.71 Helen Keller (Scholastic Biography) by Margaret Davidson
1.084 3.77 The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images by John Dominic Crossan
1.080 3.80 The Black Stallion Mystery by Walter Farley
1.078 3.67 There's an Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George
1.064 3.81 More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
1.059 3.85 The Titanic: Lost and Found (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4) by Judy Donnelly
1.051 3.61 The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling
1.031 3.88 Tabby in the Tub by Ben M. Baglio
1.031 3.82 I survived the Joplin tornado, 2011 by Lauren Tarshis
1.030 3.77 Ivy + Bean and the Ghost that Had to Go by Annie Barrows
1.030 3.95 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
1.028 4.00 Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer by Megan McDonald
1.028 4.00 Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
1.026 3.56 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1.025 3.78 Kingdom's Dawn by Chuck Black
1.024 4.05 The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson
1.024 3.75 Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver
1.019 3.57 A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
1.017 4.09 The Journeyman by Elizabeth Yates
1.013 3.52 Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson
1.011 3.45 The Sinister Signpost by Franklin W. Dixon
1.005 3.75 Sounder by William H. Armstrong
1.004 3.65 The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
1.004 3.85 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
1.003 3.73 Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1.002 4.05 The Rise of the Wyrm Lord by Wayne Thomas Batson
1.000 3.25 Bearstone by Will Hobbs
0.998 3.56 Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
0.998 3.87 Who Was Amelia Earhart? by Kate Boehm Jerome
0.998 3.78 Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
0.997 4.04 San Domingo: The Medicine Hat Stallion by Marguerite Henry
0.997 3.83 Anna Sewell's Black Beauty: The Graphic Novel by June Brigman
0.997 3.94 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
0.996 3.85 The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan
0.992 4.06 Raising Dragons by Bryan Davis
0.992 3.68 The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
0.988 3.69 Once Upon a Summer by Janette Oke
0.988 3.68 On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
0.985 4.08 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul by Jeff Kinney
0.983 3.89 I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916! by Lauren Tarshis
0.981 3.68 The Vicious Vikings by Terry Deary
0.981 3.40 The Melted Coins by Franklin W. Dixon
0.977 3.97 Meet Samantha: An American Girl by Susan S. Adler
0.975 4.03 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
0.975 3.43 The Fight to Survive by Terry Bisson
0.974 3.89 The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer
0.974 3.41 The Twisted Claw by Franklin W. Dixon
0.973 3.94 When Calls the Heart by Janette Oke
0.968 3.97 The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
0.967 3.74 Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
0.966 3.38 Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements
0.964 4.02 Jesus Freaks, Volume 2: Stories of Revolutionaries Who Changed Their World - Fearing God, Not Man by DC Talk
0.964 4.00 My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
0.962 3.84 Winds of Autumn by Janette Oke
0.960 3.57 The Mark on the Door by Franklin W. Dixon
0.959 3.92 Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
0.957 3.85 The Tombs of Anak by Frank E. Peretti
0.957 3.86 The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
0.956 3.87 Heidi by Johanna Spyri
0.951 4.06 The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
0.951 4.03 The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
0.951 3.72 Otis Spofford by Beverly Cleary
0.950 4.22 The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix
0.948 3.80 Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
0.948 4.03 My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt
0.946 3.55 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
0.946 3.90 Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield
0.944 3.78 I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 by Lauren Tarshis
0.944 3.73 Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
0.942 3.61 Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
0.942 3.44 Piper Reed, Navy Brat by Kimberly Willis Holt
0.941 3.78 Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice
0.941 3.73 The Ghosts in the Attic by Betty Ren Wright
0.941 3.62 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
0.941 4.23 The Final Storm by Wayne Thomas Batson
0.939 3.87 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
0.938 3.92 The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
0.938 3.79 Meet Molly: An American Girl by Valerie Tripp
0.936 3.66 Redwall: the Graphic Novel by Brian Jacques
0.936 3.57 The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon
0.936 3.98 Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
0.934 3.81 The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity (Brixton Brothers) by Mac Barnett
0.932 3.96 Changes for Samantha: A Winter Story by Valerie Tripp
0.932 3.85 Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
0.931 3.81 A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon
0.931 3.41 Blue Heron by Avi
0.931 3.68 It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville
0.930 3.99 Samantha's Surprise: A Christmas Story by Maxine Rose Schur
0.930 4.13 Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh
0.928 3.80 Emily's Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary
0.927 3.44 M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
0.925 3.85 Escape from the Island of Aquarius by Frank E. Peretti
0.924 4.00 Redwall by Brian Jacques
0.924 4.07 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
0.924 3.96 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney
0.923 4.09 I Survived True Stories: 5 Epic Disasters by Lauren Tarshis
0.921 3.96 Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
0.920 4.01 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
0.919 4.09 The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
0.918 3.86 The Jacket by Andrew Clements
0.917 3.85 Spring's Gentle Promise by Janette Oke
0.916 3.99 The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
0.916 3.61 How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
0.915 3.76 Messenger by Lois Lowry
0.913 3.50 The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
0.913 4.10 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
0.911 3.99 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
0.910 4.12 Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery
0.910 3.86 Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
0.910 3.91 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
0.910 4.11 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
0.909 3.90 Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
0.908 3.85 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
0.906 4.03 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
0.905 3.51 Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott
0.905 3.85 Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
0.905 3.87 Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery
0.904 3.74 The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
0.904 4.09 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
0.901 4.19 Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
0.901 4.30 Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii by James M. Deem
0.901 4.17 King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian by Marguerite Henry
0.900 3.92 Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
0.900 4.14 Who Was Abraham Lincoln? by Janet Pascal
0.899 3.92 Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
0.898 3.95 Among the Impostors by Margaret Peterson Haddix
0.897 3.57 Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary
0.897 4.11 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
0.897 3.92 A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
0.896 4.00 Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor by Donald J. Sobol
0.896 4.08 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
0.895 4.15 The Giver by Lois Lowry
0.895 3.94 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
0.894 3.87 The Door in the Dragon's Throat by Frank E. Peretti
0.894 3.99 Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz
0.893 4.09 The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
0.893 3.97 A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
0.893 3.38 The Crisscross Shadow by Franklin W. Dixon
0.893 3.55 Theodore Boone: The Scandal by John Grisham
0.891 3.92 Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
0.891 3.96 Happy Birthday, Samantha!: a Springtime Story by Valerie Tripp
0.891 3.91 Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
0.886 3.24 The Legends of Luke Skywalker by Ken Liu
0.886 4.11 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
0.885 3.95 Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
0.884 4.16 The Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel The Main Thing by C. J. Mahaney
0.883 4.00 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway by Jeff Kinney
0.883 3.96 I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 by Lauren Tarshis
0.883 3.56 The Phantom Freighter by Franklin W. Dixon
0.883 3.92 Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
0.883 3.47 Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
0.882 4.11 The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
0.881 3.81 George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
0.880 3.81 Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
0.879 4.01 Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
0.879 3.79 Meet Julie: An American Girl by Megan McDonald
0.878 4.18 Big Nate on a Roll by Lincoln Peirce
0.877 3.92 Anne of Windy Poplars by L. M. Montgomery
0.877 4.08 The Dangerous Duty of Delight by John Piper
0.877 3.95 Among the Barons by Margaret Peterson Haddix
0.872 3.56 Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
0.872 3.94 Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
0.872 3.82 Henry and Beezus by Beverly Cleary
0.872 4.06 Holes by Louis Sachar
0.871 4.46 The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History by Jane Bingham
0.870 4.14 Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
0.870 3.90 Anne of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery
0.869 3.73 Flush by Carl Hiaasen
0.867 4.08 The Witches by Roald Dahl
0.866 4.23 On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
0.865 4.15 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
0.862 3.79 Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
0.861 4.00 Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
0.861 4.09 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
0.860 3.71 The Mystery of the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
0.860 3.95 Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
0.859 4.13 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
0.858 3.70 Winter is Not Forever by Janette Oke
0.858 4.08 Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
0.857 4.15 Charlotte's Web / Stuart Little / The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
0.857 3.89 The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
0.856 3.52 The Return of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks
0.855 4.15 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
0.851 4.21 Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
0.848 4.30 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
0.848 3.79 Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman by Dorothy Sterling
0.848 4.09 In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
0.847 4.09 Who Was Albert Einstein? by Jess Brallier
0.846 4.11 The BFG by Roald Dahl
0.845 4.32 Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
0.844 3.99 Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
0.843 4.05 Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly
0.843 3.73 Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
0.842 4.12 Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
0.841 3.96 Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
0.841 3.82 The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
0.838 3.85 Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
0.835 4.13 Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters by Donna Jo Napoli
0.835 4.20 Fading Echoes by Erin Hunter
0.831 3.98 Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary
0.830 4.12 Among the Enemy by Margaret Peterson Haddix
0.829 3.88 The Well by Mildred D. Taylor
0.829 3.98 Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
0.828 4.17 Samantha Saves the Day: A Summer Story by Valerie Tripp
0.825 3.89 Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics by Chris Grabenstein
0.825 4.19 Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St.John
0.825 4.15 Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
0.822 4.05 Clarice Bean Spells Trouble by Lauren Child
0.820 3.98 Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati
0.820 3.74 Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary
0.818 3.96 Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
0.816 4.15 The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
0.815 3.29 Zia by Scott O'Dell
0.814 4.23 Little Women [abridged - Classic Starts] by Deanna McFadden
0.809 3.82 My Name Is Not Angelica by Scott O'Dell
0.804 4.17 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
0.804 4.16 When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
0.802 4.10 Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
0.797 3.58 Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes
0.793 3.53 The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn by John Bellairs
0.790 4.25 The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
0.787 4.00 I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by Lauren Tarshis
0.787 4.00 Wild Things by Clay Carmichael
0.786 4.06 The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
0.785 4.05 The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
0.785 4.22 Who Was Walt Disney? by Whitney Stewart
0.784 3.94 Samantha Learns a Lesson (American Girl: Samantha, 1904) by Susan Adler
0.783 4.31 The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
0.777 4.13 How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
0.768 4.19 Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime by Janet Benge
0.763 3.49 The Secret of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks
0.758 3.97 Blue Willow by Doris Gates
0.747 4.46 D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
0.735 4.05 Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
0.735 3.70 Star Wars: Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka
0.730 3.61 The Air I Breathe: Worship as a Way of Life by Louie Giglio
0.729 4.22 The Running Dream (Schneider Family Book Award - Teen Book Winner) by Wendelin Van Draanen
0.729 3.71 The Batboy by Mike Lupica
0.723 4.45 North! Or Be Eaten by Andrew Peterson
0.723 4.30 Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
0.721 4.45 Wonder by R. J. Palacio
0.707 4.28 World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky
0.687 4.37 Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks
0.687 4.07 42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero by Doreen Rappaport
0.685 4.11 Please Mrs. Butler by Allan Ahlberg
0.684 4.46 Dangerous Journey: The Story of Pilgrim's Progress by Oliver Hunkin
0.680 3.98 Snow White: A Graphic Novel by Matt Phelan
0.670 4.51 The boy who harnessed the wind [Young Readers edition] by William Kamkwamba
0.656 4.04 Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle
0.650 3.50 The Perilous Road by William O. Steele
0.565 4.64 Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura Hillenbrand
0.478 4.76 The Warden and the Wolf King by Andrew Peterson