A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
10 best books like A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson (Barbara Dana): Dogtag Summer, The Explosionist, The Traitor's Smile, A Golden Web, An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley, Winnie's War, Lost, A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845, The Blood Lie, Project Sweet Life
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 1599901838 |
Twelve-year-old Tracy-or Tuyet-has always felt different. The villagers in Vietnam called her con-lai, or "half-breed," because her father was an American GI. And she doesn't fit in with her adoptive family in California, either. But when Tracy and a friend discover a soldier's dogtag hidden among...
| Author | Jenny Davidson |
| ISBN | 0061239755 |
The Explosionist (formerly known as Dynamite No. 1) is the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in an alternate version of 1930s Edinburgh. There, the legacy of Napoleon's victory a century earlier at Waterloo is a standoff between a totalitarian Federation of European States and a group of independent...
| Author | Patricia Elliott |
| ISBN | 0340956771 |
Eugenie de Boncoeur has fled the violence of the French Revolution to find sanctuary in England at the home of her cousin, Hetta. At first, the two girls find themselves at loggerheads: Hetta can't understand Eugenie's preoccupation with clothes and appearance, and scorns her politics. Soon, however,...
| Author | Barbara Quick |
| ISBN | 0061448877 |
Alessandra is desperate to escape.
Desperate to escape her stepmother, who's locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There's...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0152055975 |
On the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, calls for her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley, but the woman is mistakenly kept from her side by guards who were unaware of Mary Todd Lincoln's close friendship with the black seamstress. How did...
| Author | Jenny Moss |
| ISBN | 0802798195 |
A debut novel set against the backdrop of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.
Life in Winnie's sleepy town of Coward Creek, Texas, is just fine for her. Although her troubled mother's distant behavior has always worried Winnie, she's plenty busy caring for her younger sisters, going to school,...
| Author | Jacqueline Davies |
| ISBN | 0761455353 |
Essie can tell from the moment she lays eyes on Harriet Abbott: this is a woman who has taken a wrong turn in life. Why else would an educated, well-dressed, clearly upper-crust girl end up in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory setting sleeves for six dollars a day? As the unlikely friendship between Essie...
A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845
| Author | Linda Crew |
| ISBN | 0875952992 |
This work is the winner of the 2004 Stevens Literary Prize. West. The sound of a wish in a single word. That's how seventeen-year-old Lovisa King put it that spring of 1845 as she set off with her parents, eleven of her siblings, and their assorted spouses and children for Oregon Country, the promised land....
| Author | Shirley Reva Vernick |
| ISBN | 1933693843 |
September 22, 1928, Massena, New York. Jack Pool's sixteenth birthday. He's been restless lately, especially during this season of more-times-at-the-synagogue than you can shake a stick at. If it wasn't Rosh Hashanah, then it was Yom Kippur, and if it wasn't Yom Kippur, it was the Sabbath. But temple's...
| Author | Brent Hartinger |
| ISBN | 0060824115 |
For most kids, fifteen is the year of the optional summer job: Sure, you can get a job if you really want one, but it isn't required or anything. Too bad Dave's dad doesn't agree! Instead of enjoying long days of biking, swimming, and sitting around, Dave and his two best friends are being forced by their...
| Author | Kristen Tracy |
| ISBN | 0385736878 |
Fair: just, equitable, what is right.
Unfair: the life of Camille McPhee.
Imagine being Camille McPhee. She has low blood sugar, so she carries extra food in a cooler. Would you want to do that?
Didn’t think so.
And you wouldn’t want to fall under the school...
Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do
| Author | Lawrence Kutner |
| ISBN | 0743299515 |
Almost all children today play video or computer games. Half of twelve-year-olds regularly play violent, Mature-rated games. And parents are worried...
"I don't know if it's an addiction, but my son is just glued to it. It's the same with my daughter with her computer... and I can't be watching both...
| Author | Susan Wright |
| ISBN | 0451461274 |
An exciting new erotic fantasy adventure from the author of To Serve and Submit.
Between dominance and subservience lies a power no amount of pain or pleasure can extinguish: Freedom.
Marja was once Lexander's pleasure slave-until the master found himself enslaved by her love....
| Author | Kierin Meehan |
| ISBN | 0141000449 |
Hannah would much rather be back in Australia, starting high school with her friends. But Japan turns out to be nothing like she d imagined, and when Hannah and her new friend Miki find an ancient message in the stationery shop, they are drawn into solving a mysterious riddle. Why do the beans go berserk...
| Author | Veronica Bennett |
| ISBN | 0763634646 |
How did a country girl named Jenny become the celebrated novelist Jane Austen? A highly engaging historical novel by the author of ANGELMONSTER.
Young Jane — or Jenny, as she is called — is a girl with a head full of questions. Surrounded by her busy parents and brothers, Jenny finds a place...
"Don't die," Gus whispered.
He reached out and touched her hand. Were there superpowers that could bring her back? Would there be gods in Africa that could help them save her?
"I stayed alive when you ordered me to. Now you return the favor, okay? Just . . . whatever you do, don't die."
Ruthlessly...
The Time Travelers: Volume Two
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0553494813 |
Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She asks to travel back a hundred years to 1899, when her beloved Strat is in Cairo. But in what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt instead, thousands of years before Strat was born.
Powerless, Annie and Strat both look to Time. Can its...
| Author | Marilyn Kaye |
| ISBN | 0805088806 |
Jessica may not have the warmest relationship with her mother, aspiring presidential candidate Margaret Hunsucker, but it still comes as a shock when she discovers that her mother has sold her to the devil. Will she have to spend eternity in hell with one of Satan's minions, a demon named Brad? Brad...
| Author | Dene Low |
| ISBN | 0547152507 |
You would think Petronella's sixteenth birthday would be cause for celebration. After all, fashionable friends are arriving at her country estate near London, teas are being served, and her coming out party promises to be a resplendent affair. Everything is falling nicely into place, until, suddenly—it...
| Author | Will Peterson |
| ISBN | 0763642231 |
As twins Rachel and Adam are pursued across Europe by terrifying forces, they realize they can trust no one — and must draw on their special
powers to survive.
After the shocking revelations in Triskellion, being guests of the "Hope Project" might seem like a relief. But Rachel and Adam...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 0545033489 |
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian's summer has its routine. She spends the days with her dog, visits her hip young neighbor Enzo, and twice a week tries to win the meerkat from the claw machine at the local hardware store. She's also gifted with the art of knowing what will happen and keeps a list of skills she...
It's All Downhill From Here
| Author | Nancy E. Krulik |
| ISBN | 0545052599 |
Bestselling author Nancy Krulik delves into the mind of a twelve-year-old trying to survive middle school.
It's wintertime at Joyce Kilmer Middle School, and everyone is thrilled when school is closed because of a huge snowstorm. Everyone except Jenny, that is! Addie's mom has to work, so...
| Author | Mary Finn |
| ISBN | 0763651060 |
A lyrical coming-of-age story about a boy, a girl, and a horse - and how a chance encounter can lead to a life of intrigue and learning, a life beyond imagining.
When Thomas Rose first spots the girl hidden by the roadside, she looks as drab as a lark, with only her red kerchief giving her away. But...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0152054650 |
In 1607, when John Smith and his "Coatmen" arrive in Powhatan to begin settling the colony of Virginia, their relations with the village's inhabitants are anything but warm. Pocahontas, the beloved daughter of the Powhatan chief, Mamanatowic, is just eleven; but in spite of her age, this astute young...
| Author | Joanne Ryder |
| ISBN | 0060578505 |
Follow a day in the life of the panda cubs at China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the Wolong Nature Preserve, the largest research facility for giant pandas in China. Cubs are raised together in a protected setting—dubbed panda kindergarten—where they grow strong and...
