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Charlotte’s Web
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4.21 avg rating — 2,070,636 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,313,173 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,573,630 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
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4.54 avg rating — 738,677 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,345,078 ratings
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
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4.37 avg rating — 355,646 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,130,793 ratings
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The Giving Tree
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4.39 avg rating — 1,247,619 ratings
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Frog and Toad Are Friends (Frog and Toad, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 97,655 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
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3.90 avg rating — 2,881,077 ratings
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The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
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4.38 avg rating — 91,363 ratings
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 1,376,784 ratings
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Bridge to Terabithia
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4.06 avg rating — 595,837 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,980,745 ratings
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The Wind in the Willows
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4.02 avg rating — 243,723 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,029,697 ratings
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The Three Musketeers
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4.10 avg rating — 349,781 ratings
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,529,115 ratings
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Little Women
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4.17 avg rating — 2,494,951 ratings
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Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 210,621 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,920,313 ratings
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Waiting for Godot
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3.84 avg rating — 225,158 ratings
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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4.28 avg rating — 329,732 ratings
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A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
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4.39 avg rating — 1,023 ratings
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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,050,411 ratings
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Different Seasons
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4.36 avg rating — 223,418 ratings
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Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 19,733 ratings
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Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (2012-03-01)
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4.04 avg rating — 36,303 ratings
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Esperanza Rising
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4.05 avg rating — 115,892 ratings
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The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 99,161 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 256,126 ratings
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Dead Poets Society
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4.17 avg rating — 160,156 ratings
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The Outsiders
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4.15 avg rating — 1,638,646 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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4.36 avg rating — 3,539,400 ratings
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The Joy Luck Club
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3.97 avg rating — 713,277 ratings
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Wish
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4.32 avg rating — 22,937 ratings
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The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
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4.49 avg rating — 117,664 ratings
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Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (1994-05-03)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 174,398 ratings
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The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 349,084 ratings
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Wolf Hollow (Wolf Hollow, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 29,873 ratings
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One Came Home
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3.80 avg rating — 10,367 ratings
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 736,972 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,767,748 ratings
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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3.50 avg rating — 691,415 ratings
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Henry and Beezus (Henry Huggins, #2)
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4.04 avg rating — 11,579 ratings
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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3.99 avg rating — 120,989 ratings
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A Separate Peace
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3.60 avg rating — 233,921 ratings
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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4.51 avg rating — 218,306 ratings
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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3.86 avg rating — 569,942 ratings
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The Children of Noisy Village
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4.31 avg rating — 16,119 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 309,501 ratings
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The Last Sun (The Tarot Sequence, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 13,209 ratings
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The Saving Graces
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3.80 avg rating — 16,292 ratings
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Echo Mountain
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4.25 avg rating — 10,933 ratings
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The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)
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3.58 avg rating — 13,875 ratings
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Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 91,292 ratings
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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4.24 avg rating — 340,078 ratings
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Frog and Toad Together (Frog and Toad, #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 45,900 ratings
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
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3.85 avg rating — 23,657 ratings
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The View from Saturday
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3.76 avg rating — 46,772 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 509,361 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.20 avg rating — 309,545 ratings
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A Christmas Memory
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4.24 avg rating — 18,978 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,485,979 ratings
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Women in Love
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3.66 avg rating — 33,659 ratings
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,629,349 ratings
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Harriet the Spy (Harriet the Spy #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 100,979 ratings
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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4.19 avg rating — 214,422 ratings
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Out of the Dust
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3.77 avg rating — 79,931 ratings
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The Hanged Man (The Tarot Sequence, #2)
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4.53 avg rating — 8,480 ratings
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The Hourglass Throne (The Tarot Sequence, #3)
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4.56 avg rating — 6,284 ratings
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The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 405,710 ratings
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Binti (Binti, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 81,544 ratings
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The Complete Peanuts Boxset, 1950-1954, (The Complete Peanuts, #1-2)
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4.66 avg rating — 436 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.10 avg rating — 227,498 ratings
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George and Martha: The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends
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4.21 avg rating — 9,740 ratings
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Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
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3.92 avg rating — 39,720 ratings
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A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 35,781 ratings
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
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4.07 avg rating — 14,587 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 370,673 ratings
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Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves
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3.98 avg rating — 19,305 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 761,100 ratings
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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
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3.57 avg rating — 623,362 ratings
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The Member of the Wedding
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3.81 avg rating — 20,542 ratings
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When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
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4.23 avg rating — 27,200 ratings
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The Merchant of Venice
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3.77 avg rating — 204,814 ratings
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Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 23,497 ratings
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
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4.22 avg rating — 183,419 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
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3.85 avg rating — 878,097 ratings
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About a Boy
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3.80 avg rating — 142,090 ratings
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Zorba the Greek
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4.02 avg rating — 59,712 ratings
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The Door to the Lost
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
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3.83 avg rating — 46,606 ratings
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The Quilter's Apprentice (Elm Creek Quilts, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 18,295 ratings
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Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2)
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4.23 avg rating — 78,204 ratings
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The Case of Jack the Nipper (The Chronicles of Mister Marmee, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Atom Heart John Beloved
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3.82 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Where the Heart Is
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4.04 avg rating — 253,380 ratings
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I Like You
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4.65 avg rating — 1,508 ratings
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Jimmy
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3.56 avg rating — 148 ratings
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But for children I would have to say Bridge to Terabithia or Number the Stars, the bond of friendship is so strong as to almost be tangible.
Lastly, I do agree that Charlotte's Web, by far, reaches out to any age group as to what friendship is and the lengths one will go to save a friend.