A Candle in Her Room

Author	Zilpha Keatley Snyder
ISBN	0718823478

I am new to Zilpha Keatley Snyder with an odd, long name but see that she is award-winning through other novels. This 1974 one didn't need to be set in 1938 and doesn't feel like it is in 1938, thus I don't know the authoress' purpose but most of it felt relevant. A strong, sour exception was one teacher's attitude...

Author	Marilyn Sachs
ISBN	0595175902

We really enjoyed this account of Laura's 8 week stay at a summer camp. Nothing out of the ordinary happens, but we get to see 12 yr old Laura come from the city, get used to the outdoors, trying things outside her comfort zone, make friends and experience nature.

Laura likes reading and finds it...

Author	Beverly Butler
ISBN	0671298682

When Cathy lost her sight at the age of 14, she faced a very different way of life, where her other senses had to take over the work of her eyes. Adjusting to blindness was often easier than handling the reactions of people. One friend who now avoided her her. Another smothered her with too much kindness....

Author	Shirley Rousseau Murphy
ISBN	0689305583

Thursey is too strong-willed to be intimidated by her stepsisters with their cruel taunts claiming that her father died a coward in the recent wars. She defies them, hiding the little books she makes that preserve a variety of Cinderella stories from around the world--tales she hears from travelers...

Author	Patricia Clapp
ISBN	0688045928

Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago.

Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane’s grandmother’s house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts....

Author	Janet Lunn
ISBN	0440491770

Twin girls are drawn to an antique doll, and find themselves sucked into a mystery from the past. It's spooky, but not terrifying; just the right chill-factor for the intended age group. The book is a little slow-moving by today's standards. Still, the story is interesting, and the characters well drawn....

Author	Norma Kassirer
ISBN	0064407489

Eight-year-old Sally faces an entire summer trapped in a creepy old house with no one for company but her spooky Aunt Sarah and a black cat named Shadow. But soon Sally uncovers a mystery about a beautiful old doll in a portrait -- and a little girl who looks just like Sally herself! In search of clues, Sally...

Author	Laird Koenig
ISBN	0285621254

Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination, silent except for the mounting chords of a Liszt concerto, Rynn was preparing a solemn celebration. Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.

Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house...

Author	Wylly Folk St. John
ISBN	0671442902

Sherry Alston had never been told about her dead half-sister Miranda. So when Sherry came to visit her Aunt Judith, no one could explain the odd things that started to happen. Who was the elusive friend Sherry said she saw in the garden? Was she an imaginary playmate - or could she be the ghost of Miranda...

Author	Dare Wright
ISBN	0395899265

Once there was a little doll. Her name was Edith. She lived in a nice house and had everything she needed except someone to play with. She was lonely! Then one morning Edith looked into the garden and there stood two bears! Since it was first published in 1957, The Lonely Doll has established itself as a unique...

Author	Philippa Pearce
ISBN	0140302069

Philippa Pearce’s poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog.

Young Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He’s picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library—and he just knows he’s going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but...

Author	Lani Woodland
ISBN	0615572324

Sometimes, it's just nice to take a break. For me, that's exactly what TRANSCENDENT gave me. The shorter stories lacked nothing in POP, but were fast and easy to zip through making it all about relaxation and enjoyment. As a writer who does a lot of reading for work, it was nice to read something that felt...

Author	Betty Ren Wright
ISBN	0590435981

Not all nightmares happen when you're asleep. . .

Jessica's nightmares begin as soon as she and her family move into her grandmother's isolated country house. Jessica is so afraid that she can hardly sleep. Her fears deepen as the ghostly young woman who haunts her dreams begins to appear--even...

Author	Carol Ryrie Brink
ISBN	0027143201

A dear little story of two dear friends, Chrys and Cordy, who are twelve-going-on-thirteen in early 1900s Idaho. I love good friendship stories, and this one was really dear as they have adventures in Sunday School, school, riding horses, and so on. The two pocket dolls, Lester and Lynette, are part...

Author	Robert D. San Souci
ISBN	0812626885

This illustrated collection by the author of Short and Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales includes ghost tales, “jump” stories, dark fantasy, and science fiction, all set in contemporary situations that will seem hauntingly familiar to young readers. Several of the stories draw on the rich heritage...

Author	Mike Oliveri
ISBN	0984880046

When tourists are murdered in a resort town in the northern mountain range of Minnesota, FBI Special Agent Angela Wallace is called in to investigate. But what she finds tests her training and sanity, for what she discovers should not exist. Winter Kill is the first book in the ongoing werewolf noir series,...

Author	Scott O'Dell
ISBN	0449703282

Serena Lynn, age seventeen, turns down an appointment to serve England's King, James I, at court in order to follow her beloved Anthony Foxcroft across the sea to the newly founded colony of Jamestown. But their ship, loaded with much-needed supplies, founders in a hurricane, wrecking Serena and Anthony...

Author	Willo Davis Roberts
ISBN	0590332392

Her disguise would keep her safe, but not from love.
If only men and boys were going to California, then Caroline would become a -- boy!
Caroline just wants the same adventures her brothers have. But they're headed west to California to find gold, and that's no place for a girl to be. So Caroline...

Author	Evelyn Sibley Lampman
ISBN	0689704933

2019 Review
Between this book and Howl's Moving Castle, I think I need to go back and re-read all my old favorites. You see, I've been grossly deceived. In my memory the romance plays out in the last chapter and the rest of the book is about pioneer life or something.
Y'all, THE ENTIRE BOOK CENTERS...

Author	Candice Ransom
ISBN	0590332406

Behind her was the home she could never return to. Ahead was the shining promise of America...and love. There were times she wished she'd never come to America.
Pretty, spirited Kathleen O’Connor arrives in Boston on a “coffin” ship from Ireland. She has escaped the devastating famine,...

Author	John Gordon
ISBN	1842555456

Three children find an ornate Celtic buckle. To them it is treasure, a fantastic find. They have no idea that it has awakened a giant who has lain at rest for centuries. Little do they know that an evil warlord and his Leathermen have also awaited this moment, this chance to wield their deadly power. In...

Author	Lois Duncan
ISBN	0440228476

A Gift of Magic wasn't the type of book I'd been expecting, but I'm glad I decided to read it. Written in a mysterious style with an ordinary setting, this book is full of fantasy elements and childhood nostalgia, but it's not a babyish or age-limited book. It's a very timeless story really, one that could...