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Books like Wulf the Saxon

Loved Wulf the Saxon by G. A. Henty? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from children's, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1943 · Children's

    A pilot meets a small prince from another planet; a deceptively simple fable for all ages.

  2. 2

    Charlotte's Web

    E.B. White · 1952 · Children's

    A pig, a clever spider and a barnyard friendship that beats death; the gentle classic about loyalty.

  3. 3

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    J.K. Rowling · 1997 · Children's

    An orphan learns he is a wizard and finds a home at a school of magic; the book that made a generation read.

  4. 4

    Montezuma's daughter

    H. Rider Haggard · 1893 · Children's

    Fictionalized story of the first interactions between Native Americans and European explorers.

  5. 5

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum · 1900 · Children's

    A girl swept to a magical land seeks the way home; the founding American fairy tale.

  6. 6

    Otto of the Silver Hand

    Howard Pyle · 1888 · Children's

    A courageous boy in the Middle Ages brings an end to the feud between two powerful robber barons.

  7. 7

    The Wouldbegoods

    Edith Nesbit · 1901 · Children's

    Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop - eh, what?'

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    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1886 · Children's

    Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never been even mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had been an Englishman, because his mamma had told him so; but then his papa had died when

  9. 9

    David Balfour

    Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883 · Children's

    From the book:It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s office, mus

  10. 10

    Robin Hood

    Howard Pyle · 1883 · Children's

    Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.

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