A Billion for Boris
10 best books like A Billion for Boris (Mary Rodgers): Blue Willow, Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence, Emily of New Moon, The Upstairs Room, Fog Magic, Freckle Juice, Henry Reed's Babysitting Service, A Long Way from Verona, Golden Sovereign
| Author | Doris Gates |
| ISBN | 0140309241 |
To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm...
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
‘A daring imagination has woven a simple rhyme into a brilliantly original tale [about Jennie, the Sealyham terrier, who seeks Experience and becomes the star of the World Mother Goose Theatre].' 'H. ‘Superb fantasy.' 'BL. Notable Children's Books of 1967 (ALA)
1968 Fanfare Honor List (H)
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
| Author | Gavin de Becker |
| ISBN | 0747538352 |
True fear is a gift.
Unwarranted fear is a curse.
Learn how to tell the difference.
A date won't take "no" for an answer. The new nanny gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers unsolicited help. The threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can...
Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding...
In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week - tulips in the spring, roses in the summer - stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de Leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the Germans attacked Holland and marched into the town of Winterswijk where she lived. Annie was ten...
Originally published in 1943, this edition features a rare cover by the ground-breaking illustrator Lynd Ward.
Greta had always loved the fog—the soft gray mist that rolled in from the sea and drifted over the village. The fog seemed to have a secret to tell her. Then one day when Greta was...
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 9991373764 |
Nicky has freckles: they cover his face, his ears, and the whole back of his neck. Sitting behind him in class, Andrew once counted eighty-six of them, and that was just a start! If Andrew had freckles like Nicky, his mother would never know if his neck was dirty.
One day after school, Andrew works...
| Author | Keith Robertson |
| ISBN | 0140341463 |
Henry Reed has another sure-fire money-making plan--but the kids of Grover's Corner have plans of their own
An intelligent person like Henry should have no problem riding herd on the town's toddlers. But Henry's never tangled with such monsters as daredevil Danny, whose stunts keep Henry...
| Author | Jane Gardam |
| ISBN | 1609451414 |
‘I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'
Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her- a confining world of Order Marks, wartime restrictions, viyella dresses,...
Two previous girl and horse stories introduced Connie McGuire and her white mare, Silver Birch, and her outlaw Midnight Moon. Now, in Silver's first colt, a palomino, Connie sees her dream of starting a famous stud farm, bearing results. A mystery runs through the story - the mystery of the ancestry...
| Author | Zoa Sherburne |
| ISBN | 0688217443 |
Jennifer hurries into her room and closes the door softly. Her eyes fill with tears, and she doesn't even try to blink them away. "Mother thinks I'm ashamed of her, I'm sure she does. She believes that's why I've never asked Griff or any of the other kids to come here--because I'm ashamed of her!"
But...
| Author | Dorothy Lyons |
| ISBN | 0156239361 |
Two years before, horse-loving Blythe Hyland would have been thrilled with the news that the family was moving back to an Arizona ranch, but now -- what difference did it make to her? What could a thin, listless girl, crippled by polio, do on a ranch?
Then the haunting vision of Blind Man's Pocket,...
| Author | Betty Cavanna |
| ISBN | 0340035242 |
Personal copy.
Jenny Kimura Smith's father is American, and her mother is Japanese. They live in the Setagaya-ku of Tokyo, and her father considers Japan his home. Her mother's parents were very much against the marriage, and the Smiths only visit them at the New Year. Her father is estranged from...
The Things I Did for Love
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0553273744 |
Why do fools fall in love? Sixteen-year-old Stephanie Kasden doesn't know, but she's really curious to find out. When she chooses this topic for her psychology research project, she decides to interview friends and classmates who have experience in romance. Not only will this give her solid information,...
Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
| Author | Isabelle Holland |
| ISBN | 0449702707 |
Heroine: Why does nobody love me?
Heroine's crush: Because you're fat. Totally repulsive, really. You might as well be a feminist, because no boy will ever want you.
Heroine's mother: What did I do to deserve such a fat child? You're fat.
Heroine's father: Greedy pig. If you...
| Author | Mary Stolz |
| ISBN | 0060258411 |
This book was written by Mary Stolz but the edition I read listed the author as M.S. Stolz and did not provide any information about the author. I wonder if that's because the book is written from the point of view of a boy and she didn't want to scare off boy readers with her name. (That reminds me of a book I...
The Bully of Barkham Street
| Author | Mary Stolz |
| ISBN | 0064401596 |
I could tell you what it’s like to be an awkward chubby boy in elementary school—what it's like to rely on a rambunctious dog for friendship after school, only to have your parents give the dog away because it’s, well, too rambunctious. Regrettably, I even know what it’s like to transfer all that...
Reason for Reading: Ds read aloud as his reader.
Even though we are missing the first few pages of this book it really didn't matter to the story. We could easily tell what had been discussed on the missing pages as it was recapped for us on a further page. This is a darling book! The story is about...
