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1

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

by Judi Barrett

9,890 members

330 reviews

4.2

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

2

The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body

4,874 members

83 reviews

4.2

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

3

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

by Robert C. O'Brien

11,279 members

170 reviews

4.2

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

4

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,612 members

1,176 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

95,092 members

1,194 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

30,880 members

508 reviews

3.8

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

7

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,520 members

142 reviews

3.8

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

8

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,898 members

457 reviews

3.9

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

9

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

11,321 members

103 reviews

4.1

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

10

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

by Betty MacDonald

4,770 members

41 reviews

4.1

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

11

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

16,373 members

289 reviews

4.1

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

12

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,963 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

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

13

40,462 members

1,590 reviews

4.2

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

14

The Story of Ferdinand

9,160 members

171 reviews

½ 4.3

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

15

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

10,597 members

161 reviews

4

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

16

The Horse and His Boy

25,782 members

244 reviews

3.9

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

17

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,284 members

520 reviews

3.9

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

18

The House at Pooh Corner

8,537 members

78 reviews

½ 4.4

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

19

The Cat in the Hat

20,696 members

531 reviews

4.2

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

20

Beezus and Ramona

by Beverly Cleary

6,861 members

113 reviews

3.9

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

21

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,582 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

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

22

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

15,934 members

215 reviews

4.2

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

23

by Gary Paulsen

17,762 members

581 reviews

3.8

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

24

Green Eggs and Ham

22,929 members

718 reviews

½ 4.3

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

25

Charlotte's Web

36,339 members

1,027 reviews

4.2

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

26

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare

11,194 members

209 reviews

4

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

27

The Call of the Wild

20,305 members

324 reviews

3.8

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

28

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,195 members

424 reviews

3.9

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

29

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

by E. L. Konigsburg

16,403 members

280 reviews

4.2

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

30

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,813 members

375 reviews

½ 3.4

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

31

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

5,197 members

86 reviews

4.1

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

32

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,198 members

774 reviews

3.9

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

33

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,929 members

528 reviews

4.1

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

34

8,334 members

112 reviews

3.9

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

35

by Johanna Spyri

10,406 members

148 reviews

3.8

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

36

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,355 members

439 reviews

3.8

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

37

by Peggy Parish

7,682 members

207 reviews

4.1

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

38

The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast

17,582 members

153 reviews

4.1

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

39

Cheaper by the Dozen

by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

4,765 members

80 reviews

4

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

40

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

8,238 members

95 reviews

4.2

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

41

Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

9,557 members

79 reviews

4

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

42

Mere Christianity

26,437 members

220 reviews

½ 4.3

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

43

6,614 members

93 reviews

4.1

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

44

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,723 members

440 reviews

3.9

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

45

38,274 members

506 reviews

4.1

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

46

by S. E. Hinton

21,217 members

680 reviews

4

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

47

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,161 members

328 reviews

3.9

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

48

by Louisa May Alcott

26,679 members

402 reviews

4

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

49

Make Way for Ducklings

by Robert McCloskey

10,834 members

184 reviews

½ 4.3

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

50

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,350 members

708 reviews

3.9

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

51

Pride and Prejudice

81,233 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

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

52

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

15,504 members

302 reviews

4.1

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

53

by P. D. Eastman

9,890 members

149 reviews

4.1

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

54

Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlan

11,085 members

288 reviews

3.8

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

55

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,506 members

478 reviews

4.1

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

56

The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

12,537 members

338 reviews

4.1

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

57

Number the Stars

18,792 members

645 reviews

4.1

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

58

The Chalk Box Kid

by Clyde Robert Bulla

2,587 members

25 reviews

3.9

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

59

by Carolyn Haywood

893 members

8 reviews

3.9

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

60

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,273 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

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

61

The Door in the Wall

by Marguerite De Angeli

5,884 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

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

62

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

17,599 members

425 reviews

½ 4.3

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

63

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Kate DiCamillo

15,425 members

565 reviews

4.1

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

64

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

17,287 members

424 reviews

4.1

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

65

Put Me in the Zoo

by Robert Lopshire

5,040 members

41 reviews

3.9

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

66

Jane Eyre [Norton Critical Edition]

by Charlotte Brontë

1,703 members

16 reviews

½ 4.4

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

67

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

by Barbara Robinson

7,120 members

111 reviews

4.2

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

68

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

by Beatrix Potter

3,806 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

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

69

Viking Adventure

by Clyde Robert Bulla

1,109 members

5 reviews

3.9

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

70

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

by Margaret Sidney

3,930 members

47 reviews

3.9

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

71

The Mysterious Benedict Society

by Trenton Lee Stewart

8,952 members

280 reviews

4

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

72

by Beowulf Poet

25,565 members

334 reviews

3.8

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

73

by Mary Shelley

42,974 members

714 reviews

3.8

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

74

by Beverly Cleary

5,512 members

40 reviews

3.9

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

75

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective

by Donald J. Sobol

4,098 members

35 reviews

3.9

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

76

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

by Bill Jr. Martin

14,480 members

783 reviews

½ 4.3

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

77

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

21,978 members

611 reviews

4

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

78

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,728 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

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

79

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

by Esphyr Slobodkina

9,920 members

175 reviews

4.1

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

80

by Claire Huchet Bishop

2,730 members

17 reviews

4.1

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

81

by Ludwig Bemelmans

10,751 members

259 reviews

4.2

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

82

Around the World in Eighty Days

17,231 members

267 reviews

3.8

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

83

The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1)

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

8,999 members

103 reviews

4

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

84

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

8,316 members

76 reviews

4

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

85

by Ezra Jack Keats

14,954 members

762 reviews

4.2

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

86

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

by Felicity Brooks

757 members

1 review

4.1

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

87

The Children's Book of Virtues

by William J. Bennett

2,885 members

6 reviews

4.2

6 Members: BookWallah, theresearcher, AllWaysLearning, TillyJ, ColleenRenea, Mama_Smurf

88

The Hundred Dresses

by Eleanor Estes

6,846 members

139 reviews

4

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

89

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

by Bette Bao Lord

3,045 members

23 reviews

3.8

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

90

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

by Virginia Lee Burton

6,926 members

75 reviews

4.2

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

91

by Thornton Wilder

5,118 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

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

92

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

8,850 members

90 reviews

½ 3.5

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

93

The Incredible Journey

by Sheila Burnford

5,786 members

72 reviews

3.9

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

94

Harold and the Purple Crayon

by Crockett Johnson

7,874 members

213 reviews

½ 4.3

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

95

by Robert McCloskey

4,068 members

25 reviews

4.1

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

96

by Elizabeth George Speare

4,842 members

52 reviews

4.1

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

97

5,282 members

40 reviews

4.2

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

98

The Aesop for Children

2,891 members

21 reviews

4.2

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

99

All-of-a-Kind Family

by Sydney Taylor

3,261 members

59 reviews

4.2

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

100

Frog and Toad Together

by Arnold Lobel

8,233 members

158 reviews

4.2

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

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