Afternoon of the Elves
10 best books like Afternoon of the Elves (Janet Taylor Lisle): Tar Beach, On My Honor, Cánh Đồng Bất Tận, Sarah, Plain and Tall, The Castle in the Attic, The Moorchild, The Egypt Game, The Friends, The Book of Boy, What Hearts
| Author | Faith Ringgold |
| ISBN | 0517885441 |
Ringgold recounts the dream adventure of eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot, who flies above her apartment-building rooftop, the 'tar beach' of the title, looking down on 1939 Harlem.
Part autobiographical, part fictional, this allegorical tale sparkles with symbolic and historical...
| Author | Marion Dane Bauer |
| ISBN | 0440466334 |
"On My Honor" was always a kids' book that was personal to me. The author, Marion Dane Bauer, was raised in the same small town as my mother; Oglesby, Illinois. The events in the book are based on an actual young boy's drowning that took place when my mother and the author were both children. I grew up playing...
Đổi gió bằng việc nhón lấy 1 cuốn trên giá sách của bu :3 Chính ra bu là 1 người rất yêu nước, trên giá toàn là vh Việt Nam. Chính ra bu (có thể nói) là 1 người tôn vinh nữ quyền, phần lớn đọc toàn sách của các tác giả nữ :3 Giữa 1 lô lốc...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0618062416 |
This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.
Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes...
| Author | Elizabeth Winthrop |
| ISBN | 0440409411 |
One of the classic fantastical adventures of all time!
William has just received the best present of his life—an old, real-looking stone and wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, a moat, and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. It’s the mysterious castle his housekeeper has told...
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
Half moorfolk and half human, and unable to shape-shift or disappear at will, Moql threatens the safety of the Band. So the Folk banish her and send her to live among humans as a changeling. Named Saaski by the couple for whose real baby she was swapped, she grows up taunted and feared by the villagers for...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0808553038 |
The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she's not sure they'll have anything in common. But she soon discovers that they both love anything to do with ancient Egypt. When they stumble upon a deserted storage yard behind the A-Z Antiques and Curio Shop, Melanie and April decide it's the perfect spot...
| Author | Kazumi Yumoto |
| ISBN | 0374324603 |
People come to this book, read the story and simply like that, they are engrossed with the book. They could not do anything else than turn pages after pages, and when they close the book, they do so with a sense of longing and a sadness that is long to disperse.
When I first opened the book, I had thought,...
| Author | Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
Boy has always been relegated to the outskirts of his small village. With a large hump on his back, a mysterious past, and a tendency to talk to animals, he is often mocked and abused by the other kids in his town. Until the arrival of a shadowy pilgrim named Secondus. Impressed with Boy’s climbing and...
| Author | Bruce Brooks |
| ISBN | 0064471276 |
Recipient of a 1993 Newbery Honor, this novel is an achingly beautiful, powerfully rendered journey through childhood that is not to be missed, now available in a new edition with a striking new cover.
“From an outstandingly perceptive writer, a moving portrait of a boy, observed at four...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0440413729 |
An alternate cover edition can be found here.
When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodrow, comes to live with his grandparents in Coal Station, Virginia. Woodrow’s cousin Gypsy is the town beauty, but she has hidden sorrows and secrets of her own. She wonders how Woodrow can accept...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0679818634 |
Wow did this one surprise me. It's a collection of short horror stories, mostly based on African American folktales and set in the deep south. This was published by Scholastic, so I was expecting stories aimed at children. While technically I guess they are, the stories are much darker and mature than...
| Author | Bill Brittain |
| ISBN | 0064401685 |
I first read this book when I was in grade school. I remembered being captivated by both the story and the way the frogs in the book croaked, "jug-a-rum." I was thinking about this book a few weeks ago and decided to give it another read to find out what had captivated me so much as a child.
As with many...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0440227836 |
This book reminds me of the washcloth that my dad used to clean himself when we ran out of toilet paper, but that's a good thing.
I re-read this from time to time just to remind myself of simpler times. The good old days when I used to run the wood splitter with my dad, or clean out septic tanks with him...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0064406237 |
Scorpions, a Newbery Honor Book by National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Walter Dean Myers, is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary!
When it was first published in 1988, Scorpions amazed readers. It continues to do so today. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition...
For every person, there are books that you read that completely shape your life or push your life in a certain direction. For me, this is one of those books.
I first read this book in seventh grade on a whim. I had to read Walk Two Moons in another class the previous year, so I recognized the author's...
