4.03 avg rating — 53,953 ratings

"Caddie lived the kind of adventurous life I wanted."

4.03 avg rating — 160,420 ratings

"Kit was brave, resourceful and unapolagetically herself"

4.51 avg rating — 129 ratings

"A young girl takes a perilous journey during a time when all travel was risky. "

4.28 avg rating — 5,249 ratings

"I tried the same thing when I was 14. "

3.87 avg rating — 103 ratings

"Claudia got into all kinds of trouble but for good reasons, including defending bullied classmates."

3.90 avg rating — 4,535 ratings

"Merewyn never loses her strong sense of herself and her obligations to people who depend on her. "

4.24 avg rating — 19,549 ratings

"Nancy didn't wait around for Ned or her father to rescue her. And she had a red Roadster..."

4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings

"I checked this out from the Seattle library when I was 10 or 11. It makes frontier life sound adventurous. "

3.88 avg rating — 350,144 ratings

"Since this is required reading in schools, many young readers assume it'll be boring. That's a shame - it's good."

4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings

"A Puritan girl with some rigid ideas about people visits cousins in England and learns how to think for herself. "

4.36 avg rating — 157,272 ratings

"I liked Laura because she wasn't blonde & pretty like her sister, was something of a tomboy, and enjoyed exploring her world."