Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

9 best books like Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution (Natalie S. Bober): The Way We Live Now, Kidnapped, The Little White Horse, Across Five Aprils, The Persian Pickle Club, George Washington's World, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Our Island Story, The Story Book of Science

The Way We Live Now

Author	Anthony Trollope
ISBN	1853262552

”There are a thousand little silly softnesses which are pretty and endearing between acknowledged lovers, with which no woman would like to dispense, to which even men who are in love submit sometimes with delight; but which in other circumstances would be vulgar,— and to the woman distasteful....

Kidnapped

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN	0439295785

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter’. Balfour, a canny...

The Little White Horse

Author	Elizabeth Goudge
ISBN	0142300276

In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. Her new guardian, her uncle Sir Benjamin, is kind and funny; the Manor itself feels like home...

Across Five Aprils

Author	Irene Hunt
ISBN	0425182789

Do they make kid's books like this sort anymore? Real and real painful. Across Five Aprils was required reading in 6th grade and it was as if the teacher's were saying "Life's a bitch, get used to it."

I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way...

The Persian Pickle Club

Author	Sandra Dallas
ISBN	0312147015

It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging...

George Washington's World

Author

Genevieve Foster

This Newbury Honor book will not only deepen your fondness and respect for the Father Of Our Nation, but will aquaint you with the great contemporaries of Washington from around the world. Learn about the fascinating lives of the great philosophers, musicians and inventors of the 1700 s. Recommended...

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Author	Howard Pyle
ISBN	1595406557

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, the novel compiles traditional material into a coherent...

Our Island Story

Author	H.E. Marshall
ISBN	1599150093

A child's history of England from earliest legendary times delightfully retold. Beginning with the stories of Albion and Brutus, it relates all the interesting legends and hero tales in which the history of England abounds through the end of the reign of Queen Victoria. Suitable for children ages...

The Story Book of Science

Author	Jean-Henri Fabre
ISBN	1599150255

The wonders of plant and animal life told with rare literary charm by Uncle Paul in conversations with three children. Besides such stories as the ants' subterranean city, the spider's suspension bridge, and the caterpillars' processing, he unlocks the mystery behind thunder and lightning, clouds...