Showing 1 - 16 of 16
There are a total of 38 valid entries on the list.
Series:
Anne of Green Gables volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
Kelly, Laura J, & Sarah's Pick
Description:
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Author:
Series:
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Farida's Picks
Description:
Catwad and Blurmp are back and ready for more adventures in this newest volume in which they meet new friends, try out yoga (spoiler alert: Catwad hates it), and more! It's a laugh-out-loud romp not to be missed, even if Catwad claims otherwise.
Author:
Series:
Growing pangs volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Farida's Picks
Formats:
Description:
Eleven-year-old Katie navigates life as a homeschooler, forms a better understanding of the OCD she experiences, and learns that growing apart from friends is sometimes part of growing up.
Author:
Series:
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
Sarah's Pick
Description:
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
Author:
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
Minh's Pick
Description:
Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.
Author:
Series:
Missy Piggle-Wiggle volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Farida's Picks
Description:
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has left her Upside-Down House and the animals that live there in the care of her twenty-something niece, Missy. Luckily for the town's families, Missy Piggle-Wiggle is capable of concocting the same sort of inventive cures for bad behavior that made her aunt an indispensable community resource.
8. Mossflower
Author:
Series:
Redwall volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Elyse's Pick
Description:
Martin the warrior mouse and Gonff the mousethief set out to find the missing ruler of Mossflower, while the other animal inhabitants of the woodland prepare to rebel against the evil wildcat who has seized power.
Author:
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Elyse & Molly's Pick
Formats:
Description:
Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
With nowhere else to turn, a field mouse asks the clever escaped lab rats living under the rosebush to help save her son, who lies in the path of the farmer's tractor, too ill to be moved.
10. Nat enough
Author:
Series:
Nat enough volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Farida's Picks
Formats:
Description:
Natalie has never felt that she's enough--athletic enough, stylish enough, or talented enough. And on the first day of middle school, Natalie discovers that things are worse than she thought--now she's not even cool enough for her best friend, Lily! As Natalie tries to get her best friend back, she learns more about her true self and natural talents. If Natalie can focus on who she is rather than who she isn't, then she might realize she's more than...
Author:
Series:
Phoebe and her unicorn volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Minh's Pick
Description:
Follows the unlikely friendship between a somewhat awkward girl and the unicorn who gradually shows her just how special she really is. Through ... adventures where Phoebe gets to bask in Marigold's 'awesomeness,' the friends also come to acknowledge that they had been lonely before they met and truly appreciate the bond they now share.
"Follows the unlikely friendship between a somewhat awkward girl and the unicorn who gradually shows her just how...
12. Pie
Author:
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Laura J's Pick
Description:
After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.
13. The Silver Arrow
Author:
Series:
Silver Arrow volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Minh's Pick
Description:
Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.
Author:
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Minh's Pick
Formats:
Description:
Born with an ability to float in the air, Barnaby Brocket is entreated by his parents to hide his unusual trait until a fateful day when he finds himself on a journey that takes him all over the world and into outer space.
16. The Thief Lord
Author:
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Elyse's Pick
Formats:
Description:
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt only the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they find protection from a gang of Venetian street children and their leader, the Thief Lord.