 | The Boxcar Children Books 1-4 by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $7.99 children living without adult supervision. every kid's dream.
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 | Bobbsey Twins Complete Series Set, 1-12 by Laura Lee Hope
Buy used from: $50.00 |
 | The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Books of Wonder) by Hugh Lofting
Buy used from: $2.94 great fairy-tale stories.
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 | The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 beverly cleary was great--henry huggins and ramona, and also this series about a motorcyle-riding mouse.
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 | Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 a boy and his big bear.
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 | Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.14 funny stories about a kid growing up in a small town. also "centerburg tales".
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 | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.43 along with "superfudge" and "otherwise known as sheila the great".
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 | The Secret of Terror Castle (The Three Investigators #1) by Robert Arthur
Buy used from: $16.67 better than the hardy boys. i especially remember #22 in the series, "dead man's walk".
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 | The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain Book 1) by Lloyd Alexander
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.65 great series, in the same vein as "narnia" and "the dark is rising".
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 | The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree; The Grey King; Greenwitch; The Dark Is Rising; and Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Buy used from: $16.50 another great fantasy series.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $26.32 / Used from: $14.25 classic.
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 | The Mad Scientists' Club (Mad Scientist Club) by Bertrand R. Brinley
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $11.99 one of my favorite books as a kid. also the sequel, "new adventures of the mad scientists' club".
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 | The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ellen Raskin
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.11 also, "the mysterious disappearance of leon (i mean noel)".
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 | Great Brain,The by John D. Fitzgerald
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.88 |
 | Secret Agents Four (Adventure Library) by Donald J. Sobol
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $4.37 looking for books like "the mad scientists".
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 | Danny Dunn and the Smallifying Machine, No. 1 by Jay Williams
Buy used from: $5.00 this series is a cross between "the mad scientists" and hardy boys, although more fantastic.
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 | Basil of Baker Street (Basil of Baker Street ): Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
Buy used from: $16.35 sherlock holmes' mouse counterpart. for some reason, i liked reading about rodents....
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 | The Cricket in Times Square
Buy used from: $7.74 |
 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Aladdin Fantasy) by Robert C. O'Brien
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 super-smart rats. albert is making this book a reality.
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 | The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $0.01 the whole black stallion series--i loved horses.
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 | Trixie Belden Boxed Set #1-#3 by Julie Campbell
Buy used from: $20.00 okay, my sister had the entire series, so i read them too. all 39 books. much better than nancy drew.
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 | Three Beloved Classics by E.B. White: Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan (Boxed Set) by E. B. White
Buy used from: $27.79 my favorite of the three was "the trumpet of the swan".
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 | The Pit Dragon Chronicles, Volumes 1-3: Boxed Set: Dragon's Blood, Heart's Blood, and A Sending of Dragons by Jane Yolen
Buy used from: $19.99 always loved dragons. don't think i read that third one, though....
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 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 another "kids without adult supervision" story.
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 | The Time Trilogy: A Swiftly Tilting Planet, A Wind in the Door and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy used from: $44.95 my first encounter with the word "mitochondria".
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 | The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Swiss Family Robinson (Signet Classics) by Johann D. Wyss
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $1.58 self-sufficiency. it's no surprise i love the discovery channel series "man vs. wild".
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 | Time Traders by Andre Norton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.98 andre norton is the grand dame of science fiction. i liked the time traders series and the sioux spaceman. probably my first introduction to sci-fi.
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