(Part 3) Best orphan books for children according to redditors
We found 219 Reddit comments discussing the best orphan books for children. We ranked the 90 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
There's actually a picture book that does a great job addressing the "real kids" comment - from the description:
> The young narrator recalls a time in the park when her foster mother was asked to point out her real children. Her answer: "Oh, I don't have any imaginary children…. All my children are real."
Bezos also has access to Michael Cohen's purchase history on Amazon.
I wonder what his latest buy means:
https://www.amazon.com/Greetings-Witness-Protection-Jake-Burt/dp/1250107113
The Water Mirror by Kai Meyer?
The audiobooks for A Series of Unfortunate Events are really good and have a bunch of ridiculous songs included. My husband and I listen to them on road trips (no kids).
I can't speak for the audiobooks, but Artemis Fowl is also good (and quite humorous).
Coraline would probably be a good fit for that age group too.
Would also second Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Prydain, A Wrinkle in Time, and The Golden Compass, which other users have mentioned.
Sang Spell
http://www.amazon.com/Sang-Spell-Phyllis-Reynolds-Naylor/dp/0689820062
If anyone's looking for a book that explores an ancap world, I'd recommend MARTians.
The Memory Coat
They definitely exist, in fact I think there are two different narrations however I can't seem to find any digital copies. Here is a link to the CD version on Amazon. Hope that helps.
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Flower-Journey-Laura-McAndrew/dp/0878687149
There's the link for the book. It will help you to explain it to her in kid terms
There is a fantasy book series that starts with the book "Peter and the Starcatchers"
There's a great book about the Lost Boys of Sudan, called Brothers in Hope. It's a shorter text and I used it as a read-aloud with my 3rd graders last year. In retrospect the subject matter and language was too advanced for them, and it would probably work better for middle or high schoolers, but it fit well into my Migrations and Memoirs unit. The illustrations are beautiful. http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Hope-Story-Coretta-Illustrator/dp/1584302321/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=10ZHXSBHA17FP32KK25S
Graceling
Crossing the Wire
A Long Walk to Water
War Brothers
Probably the book "A List Of Cages"
I love Dave Barry, and love reading his old columns. Have you, by chance, read his Starcatcher series at all? I'm intrigued at the idea of Dave Barry writing children's literature.
Goodreads has a list for 9-11 year olds. Harry Potter?
I'm going to assume you're looking for something less mainstream:
For when she gets a little older: Sharon Shinn writes a trio of coming-of-age books with female protagonists in a pseudofantasy universe. It's a good way to start her on fantasy...if you want her to experience that genre. The themes are pretty mature even if the protagonists are children and the writing is scaled down. These are written for a 6-7th grade reading level. Ramona books are written starting at a 3rd grade level and move up to 7th grade (at their hardest). While I think she could read them -and might like them- you should read them first to ensure they are appropriate. There is nothing sexual in any of them but they are a child's version of dark fantasy. Happy endings for all, though.
The books are Safe-Keeper's Secret Truth Teller's Tale and Dream maker's Magic.
On her reading level (supposedly) is the Bartimaeus Trilogy which is like Harry Potter but darker.
Back in my junior high days the most influential book for me was a toss up between Run, boy, Run and SoldierX.
In highschool, I found No Country for Old Men, The Road, and Fast Food Nation extremely moving. Brave new world is up there as well.
Right now, I'm reading this and it's actually really great.
Hi u/ting4ling,
Kara here, OP's wife, (As I said to another redditor, I'm basically the PR person for our biz as my husband tbh isn't the best typist or as patient with giving thoughtful replies).
First off, glad you think they're cool and glad you love books. The awesome thing is that we never ever ever ever would cut a limited edition or rare irreplaceable edition, (couldn't afford one anyway).
As you know, e-books abound! We buy real, paper books which makes the publisher print a new book to replace it to sell to a reader. It would be a tragedy if print went out. It's sad to see bookstores closing. I've provided here a handy-dandy list of ways to get access to J.K. Rowling's awesome work, and it would be mostly the same access for most of the books we cut for our business:
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The above listings are just on Amazon, of course there's:
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Let's all go forth and buy real books for whatever reason, seriously, we need to support print.
edit: formatting