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Anyone have any suggetions or lists?

 

Something wholesome and hopefully character-building. Even many of the Christian kids books have romance in them.

My Dd 13 LOVES horse books but they too have mention of romance in them. Are there any out there? Some mention of general old-fashioned courting is OK.

 

It seems in order to find anything, we need to get books on a much lower grade/reading level. Our girls are 11 and 13 and love to read! But it seems so hard to find "good books'!

 

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a site out there that lists and rewiews/rates books based on things like violence, romance, language?

 

 

Thanks!

Natalija

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But someone else needs to tell you if they are suitable for you because some of them may be too exciting or too imaginative. Some of them have some violence in them, too, or at least conflict, not enough to bother me at the time, but some of them I haven't read for a long time.

 

Little Men

Eight Cousins

A Little Princess

The Princess and the Goblin

The Lame Prince

The Blue Bird

Heidi

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Emily of New Moon

A Cricket in Time Square

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

My Friend Flicka (preread - this is a very realistic picture of life on a horse ranch)

Dragon Song

Dragon Singer (but DO NOT give your daughter any of the other Anne McCaffreys if you are avoiding romance)

The Black Stallion

Room for One More (think this was the title - about a family who adopted lots of children)

Cheaper by the Dozen

All Creatures Great and Small (preread - very realistic picture of being a vet)

Margery Sharp's Miss Bianca series (might be too exciting or scary)

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (ditto)

Nightbirds on Nantucket (ditto)

Hard Alee

Rabbit Hill

The Flight of the Doves (might be too scary)

A Wrinkle in Time (ditto)

Christmas at Candleshoe (a mystery)

Time Cat

The Phantom Tollbooth

My Side of the Mountain

The Wind in the Willows (some violence)

The Narnia series

 

Again, you probably want to preread these. Some I am sure of, like Five Little Peppers, Heidi, Rebecca, and Emily, but the others might not meet your requirements. It has been awhile since I've read some of them. I do know that I was entirely uninterested in romance at your daughters' ages so these are likely to be safe from that. If there was any, it went over my head.

 

-Nan

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This is a great list of books. Thanks!

 

But someone else needs to tell you if they are suitable for you because some of them may be too exciting or too imaginative. Some of them have some violence in them, too, or at least conflict, not enough to bother me at the time, but some of them I haven't read for a long time.

 

Little Men

Eight Cousins

A Little Princess

The Princess and the Goblin

The Lame Prince

The Blue Bird

Heidi

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Emily of New Moon

A Cricket in Time Square

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

My Friend Flicka (preread - this is a very realistic picture of life on a horse ranch)

Dragon Song

Dragon Singer (but DO NOT give your daughter any of the other Anne McCaffreys if you are avoiding romance)

The Black Stallion

Room for One More (think this was the title - about a family who adopted lots of children)

Cheaper by the Dozen

All Creatures Great and Small (preread - very realistic picture of being a vet)

Margery Sharp's Miss Bianca series (might be too exciting or scary)

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (ditto)

Nightbirds on Nantucket (ditto)

Hard Alee

Rabbit Hill

The Flight of the Doves (might be too scary)

A Wrinkle in Time (ditto)

Christmas at Candleshoe (a mystery)

Time Cat

The Phantom Tollbooth

My Side of the Mountain

The Wind in the Willows (some violence)

The Narnia series

 

Again, you probably want to preread these. Some I am sure of, like Five Little Peppers, Heidi, Rebecca, and Emily, but the others might not meet your requirements. It has been awhile since I've read some of them. I do know that I was entirely uninterested in romance at your daughters' ages so these are likely to be safe from that. If there was any, it went over my head.

 

-Nan

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We LOVED That Quail, Robert!! ( or whatever it is called!) Great book! We were cracking up so many times, especially in the "chase" scene! Thanks for reminding me we have that book!

 

Thanks everyone for the lists. We have many of them but there are others I will look up.

 

Thanks! :-)

 

Natalija

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I hate to say this, but I think several of these books have a lot of romance in them.

 

Rose in Bloom - Rose thinks she loves Charlie, Archie is terribly in love with Phoebe and his family disapproves, Mac woos Rose until she succumbs with a bang!

 

Anne of Green Gables books - Gilbert loves Anne while she won't take him seriously and it takes a while for them to work that out, not just general courtship. Some jealousy and Anne's white night of the soul...but I guess that is not too much when it is spread out over several books. But then there are Leslie (who is married -well, not really but it is complicated) and the writer and Rilla's hysterical (imo) courtship with Leslie's son. Gilbert accuse Anne of being a matchmaker as she spreads and encourages romance everywhere she goes!

 

Emily of New Moon - Ilse leaves Teddy at the altar for Perry and Emily and Teddy have that *mystical* soulmate thing going!

 

Little Women - if Laurie can't have Jo he is going to go the devil and then he falls in love with Amy instead! Meg's courtship is very sweet, though.

 

Don't get me wrong - I think these are wonderful books but this level of romance doesn't trouble me at all.

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If you are also okay with Christian books, I would add Elsie Dinsmore, book 1 and 2 to the list. After that, romance is more central, although very old-fashioned. The book series takes Elsie through grandmotherhood.

 

My daughter and I laughed and cried over books 1 and 2. Can't read book 1 without 2 because it is left with a hanger.....

 

I will have my dd add her own list later. She reads 4-5 books a week and has read practically everything acceptable in our local library! And we have now had to go beyond, looking at regional libraries! :lol:

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Have you checked out the books at Keepers of the Faith?

 

They screen the books they sell pretty well.

 

My dd is reading Stepping Heavenward right now and is enjoying it. It chronicals the life of the main character from about age 16 to her old age. The reader reads her stories through diary entries.

 

This is actually a very old book (still in print), but the things the character experiences and goes through will serve to point out that there is nothing new under the sun. The book basically is written to show the Godly growth of one young lady through the rocky road of life.

 

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