Books like Where the Red Fern Grows
12 books with a reading profile close to Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. Inward-looking, contemplative, clear-cut and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
The story begins when Fern Arable saves a runt pig named Wilbur from her father's axe.
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The Child's Story
Also contemplative and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Tracing the progression of a single traveler across an allegorical landscape, this narrative depicts the human life cycle as a series of encounters in a vast forest.
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The Secret Garden
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
After the death of her parents in India, ten-year-old Mary Lennox travels to a bleak estate on the Yorkshire moors to live with her uncle.
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Old Yeller
by Fred Gipson
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Set in the late 1860s on the Texas frontier, the story follows fourteen-year-old Travis Coates, who manages his family’s homestead while his father is away on a cattle drive.
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Chronicles of Avonlea
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
This collection of twelve short stories centers on the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island, specifically within the rural communities of Avonlea and Carmody.
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Eleven-year-old Margaret Simon moves from New York City to the New Jersey suburbs, where she joins a secret club with three other girls to discuss boys, bras, and the onset of puberty.
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
In 1687, sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler leaves her wealthy, sun-drenched home in Barbados to live with Puritan relatives in the Connecticut Colony.
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Ballet Shoes
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Set in 1930s London, the story follows three adopted sisters—Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil—who are left to fend for themselves when their guardian, Great Uncle Matthew, disappears on an extended expedition.
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The Railway Children
by Edith Nesbit
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
After their father is arrested on false charges of espionage, the three Waterbury siblings—Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis—move from a comfortable London life to a modest cottage near a rural railway line.
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Twelve Angry Men
Also thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Reginald Rose’s teleplay centers on twelve unnamed jurors deliberating the fate of a nineteen-year-old boy accused of fatal stabbing.
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Sylvester Duncan, a young donkey living in Oatsdale, discovers a bright red pebble that grants his every wish.
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On the Banks of Plum Creek
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
The Ingalls family moves from the Kansas prairie to Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where they settle into a dugout home carved into a creek bank.
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