 | Henry Reed, Inc. (Puffin Books) by Keith Robertson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A great old-fashioned book about a boy who stays the summer in a small town with his uncle and aunt. Everything seems to happen when Henry is around!
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 | Henry Reed's Babysitting Service (Puffin Book) by Keith Robertson
Buy used from: $0.53 We love Henry Reed!
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 | Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.47 Another wonderful old-fashioned book. Homer Price is a boy in a small town who also has some great childhood adventures. My girls loved the part about the automatic donut machine. We had to visit Krispy Kreme afterwards!
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 | The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $0.08 The Melendy family is living in NYC before WWII. They decide to pool their allowances to allow one child a week to have a great adventure. A wonderful story from more innocent times. Check out the rest of the Melendy books!
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 | The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $2.51 The second book in the Melendy series. The family moves to the countryside. Wonderful descriptions of nature, as well as innocent childhood adventures.
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 | Then There Were Five (The Melendy Quartet) by Elizabeth Enright
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $1.93 The next one in the Melendy books. We are reading this one now.
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 | Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze by Elizabeth Enright
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.45 A final Melendy story.
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 | "B" Is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 My daughters love the Betsy books!
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 | Betsy and Billy (Betsy) by Carolyn Haywood
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $2.46 |
 | Back to School with Betsy (Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic) by Carolyn Haywood
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $1.19 |
 | Betsy and the Boys (Betsy) by Carolyn Haywood
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $1.98 |
 | The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 We love the Moffat family. These books were definitely written in a simpler time-days before air conditioning, before cars were in common use, before television. The children's ordinary lives take on a sweet meaning in today's hi-tech age.
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 | The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
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 | Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
Buy new: $6.00 / Used from: $0.01 Rufus is a Moffat.
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 | The Moffat Museum by Eleanor Estes
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 | Ginger Pye (Young Classic) by Eleanor Estes
Buy new: $6.00 / Used from: $0.01 Ginger Pye is the smartest dog in town. Who wouldn't want her for their own? Someone else in town does....
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 | Pinky Pye by Eleanor Estes
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A follow up to Ginger Pye. Pinky is a kitten adopted by the Pye family while they are away for the summer.
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 | Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller) by Arthur Ransome
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.41 |
 | Railway Children, the (Penguin Popular Classics) by Edith Nesbit
Buy new: $3.21 / Used from: $1.77 We loved the Railway Children! These are British children whose father is mysteriously away, and who must suddenly "pretend to be poor". Their adventures are so heartwarming and comical. PBS did a great movie on this recently, too.
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 | Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $7.36 "It" is a sandfairy the children find. They are granted one wish a day, and learn the saying "be careful what you wish for" is true every time!
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 | The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit
Buy new: $10.95 / Used from: $8.69 The British Bastable children each come up with an idea to "restore the fortunes of the House of Bastable". Each idea leads to adventure. A great read! The movie by PBS is unfortunately nothing like the book!
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