18 books like Ragged Dick

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The Bean Trees Anniversary Edition Barbara Kingsolver · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Taylor, a poor Kentuckian making her way west with an abandoned baby girl, stops in Tucson where she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places. Shares: Friendship in fiction, Orphans in fiction

Kim Rudyard Kipling · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Shares: Orphans in fiction, Boys, Orphans, History

Kim Rudyard Kipling · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Shares: Orphans in fiction, Boys, Orphans, History

Oliver Twist George Almar · 1838 · ★ 3.9 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Thanks to its colorful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens’ Oliver Twist has captured readers’ hearts for more than 150 years. Today’s children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets led by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can… Shares: Orphans in fiction, Orphans

Anne of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1909 · ★ 4.2 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series.Now Anne is half past sixteen and she's ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She's as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to inspire young hearts with her own ambitions. But some of her pupils are as boisterous and high-spirited as Anne, and so life in her Avonlea classroom becomes a lesson in discovery and… Shares: Orphans in fiction, Orphans, History

Never Say Die Anthony Horowitz · 2017 · ★ 4.3 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Following the events of Scorpia Rising, Alex relocates to San Francisco as he slowly recovers from the tragic death of his best friend and caregiver, Jack Starbright, at the hands of terrorists working for SCORPIA. With Jack gone, Alex feels lost and alone, but then, out of the blue, he receives a cryptic email--just three words long, but enough to make Alex believe that Jack may be alive. Armed… Shares: Orphans in fiction, Orphans

Great Expectations Charles Dickens · 1861 · ★ 3.8 · 546p · ≈ 18h · Challenging Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from… Shares: Boys, Conduct of life, History

Rex Zero and the end of the world Tim Wynne-Jones · 2006 · ★ 3.5 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world around him. Shares: Friendship in fiction, History

Jonas a judge; or, Law among the boys Jacob Abbott · 1840 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Early one winter morning, while Jonas was living upon the farm, in the employment of Oliver's father, he came groping down, just before daylight, into the great room. The great room was, as its name indicated, quite large, occupying a considerable portion of the lower floor of the farmer's house. There was a very spacious fireplace in one side, with a settle, which was a long seat, with a very… Shares: Boys, Conduct of life

Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote · 1956 · ★ 4.0 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Published with three short stories this novella cemented Capote’s position at the forefront of American literature. It is the story of a friendship between New York neighbours, good time girl Holly Golightly and the unnamed male narrator. Shares: Boys, Conduct of life

By Right of Conquest G. A. Henty · 1890 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Roger Harkshaw and his father, Reuben, want to go to Mexico and try to establish trade with the natives. So, they climb on the  merchant ship Swan. But, the ship wrecks and Roger is the only survived, in Pre-Columbian Mexico. At the beginning, the natives treat him as a God, but they soon decide that he would be the perfect sacrifice for their real gods. For that purpose Roger is sent to a… Shares: Boys, History

Armourer's House Rosemary Sutcliff · 1951 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares: Orphans, History

Out of the night that covers me Pat Cunningham Devoto · 2001 · ★ 4.2 · 434p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In Bainbridge, Alabama, eight-year-old John Gallatin McMillan III has been the center of his mother's world, cloistered and pampered, until she unexpectedly dies. Taken away by his one remaining relative, his mother's sister, John soon learns that the new home awaiting him in Lower Peach Tree is a run-down tenant farm in the heart of the Alabama Black Belt. There he is thrust into a life alien to… Shares: Boys, Orphans

Big Nate - Game On! Lincoln Pierce · 2013 · ★ 3.9 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "To sixth-grader Nate Wright, life is one big game. So when he suits up for any sport, he does it with an unmistakable swagger. From fine-tuning his trash-talking skills on the basketball court to his cocky 'tude in the soccer goal, Nate can be a bigger challenge to his teammates than their opponents"--Page 4 of cover. Shares: Boys, Conduct of life

Alice of old Vincennes Maurice Thompson · 1900 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A historical novel dealing with the life of the old Northwest in Revolutionary times. James Maurice Thompson (1844-1901), son of a Baptist minister, was born in Fairfield, Indiana. The family moved to north Georgia in the 1850s and he was educated by tutors in the classical languages, literature, French and mathematics, which provided the basis for his later work as a civil engineer. During the… Shares: Orphans, History

The Healing Wars: Book I Janice Hardy · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Fifteen-year-old Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. She is also a Taker—with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body.But unlike her sister Tali and the other Takers who become Healer’s League apprentices, Nya’s skill is flawed: she can’t push that pain into pynvium, the enchanted metal used to store it. All she can do… Shares: Orphans, Conduct of life

Big Nate - In a Class by Himself Lincoln Peirce · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement. Shares: Boys, Conduct of life

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares: History

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