Children's fiction Books to Read Free Online

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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

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Children's fiction

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The Polar Express Gift Set

Chris Van Allsburg

1985 ★ 4.1

Tales from Silver Lands

Charles Joseph Finger

1924

The White Darkness

Geraldine McCaughrean

2006

Sam, Bangs & Moonshine

Evaline Ness

1966 ★ 4.0

Once a Mouse

Marcia Brown

1961 ★ 4.0

Time of Wonder

Robert McCloskey

1968

Golem

David Wisniewski

1996 ★ 4.3

Finding Winnie

Lindsay Mattick

2015 ★ 4.8

The house in the night

Susan Marie Swanson

2008 ★ 4.6

The Giver

Lois Lowry

1993 ★ 4.0

Johnny Tremain

Esther Forbes

1943 ★ 3.8

Criss cross

Lynne Rae Perkins

2005 ★ 2.8

Madeline's Rescue

Ludwig Bemelmans

1954 ★ 4.0

Hitty, her first hundred years

Rachel Field

1929 ★ 3.7

Finders keepers

William Lipkind, Nicholas Mordvinoff

1989

The Biggest Bear

Lynd Ward

1988

Dicey's Song

Cynthia Voigt

1982 ★ 3.8

Duffy and the devil

Margot Zemach, Harve Zemach

1973

The dark frigate

Charles Boardman Hawes

1996

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

1990 ★ 4.2

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Hugh Lofting

1922 ★ 3.9

Baboushka and the Three Kings

Ruth Robbins, Nicolas Sidjakov

1960 ★ 4.0

The Little Island

Margaret Wise Brown

1946 ★ 4.3

When you trap a tiger

Tae Keller

2020 ★ 4.0

Nine days to Christmas

Marie Hall Ets, Aurora Labastida

1959

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

1967

Saint George and the Dragon

Margaret Hodges

1984 ★ 4.4

Crispin--The Cross of Lead

Avi, Ron Keith

2002 ★ 3.4

The Adventures of Beekle

Dan Santat

2014 ★ 5.0

The Hello, Goodbye Window

Norton Juster

2005

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