Alphabet of Dreams

10 best books like Alphabet of Dreams (Susan Fletcher): The Loud Silence of Francine Green, Babylonne, The Porcupine Year, A Taste for Rabbit, Anahita's Woven Riddle, Blue Thread, Red Moon at Sharpsburg, Lord of the Nutcracker Men, Brooklyn Rose, Samurai Shortstop

AuthorKaren Cushman
ISBN0618504559
Francine Green doesn’t speak up much, and who can blame her? Her parents aren’t interested in her opinions, the nuns at school punish girls who ask too many questions, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities is blacklisting people who express unpopular ideas. There’s safety in silence....
AuthorCatherine Jinks
ISBN0763636509
Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming-of-age tale featuring a headstrong heroine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages.

Early thirteenth-century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Babylonne has survived six bloody sieges. She's...
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0060297875

Here follows the story of a most extraordinary year in the life of an Ojibwe family and of a girl named "Omakayas," or Little Frog, who lived a year of flight and adventure, pain and joy, in 1852.

When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey. They...
A Taste for Rabbit
AuthorLinda Zuckerman
ISBN0439869773
In the tradition of WATERSHIP DOWN comes a brilliant novel about foxes, rabbits, and the cold calculation that leads to war.

Imagine a world in which there are no people, but foxes are civilized. They wear clothes, they fight, they elect corrupt officials. They eat all kinds of things, but only...
AuthorMeghan Nuttall Sayres
ISBN0810954818
This book made me taste the flavors, see the colors, smell the spices, hear the sounds, and feel the fabrics. It employed each of my 5 senses. I felt like I was really in 19th century Iran, and it made me kind of want to be a Nomad. I was totally on Anahita's side when it came to absolutely NOT marrying the Khan,...
Blue Thread
AuthorRuth Tenzer Feldman
ISBN1932010416
The women’s suffrage movement is in full swing in 1912 Portland, Oregon—the last holdout state on the West Coast. Miriam desperately wants to work at her father’s printing shop, but when he refuses she decides to dedicate herself to the suffrage movement, demanding rights for women and a different...
AuthorRosemary Wells
ISBN0670036382
Award-winning author Rosemary Wells lays bare the senseless devastation of war in this stunning novel. As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn'tknow she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia...
AuthorIain Lawrence
ISBN0440418127
Johnny's dad, a toymaker, sends his son letters and carved soldiers from the front in WWI. When Johnny's toy battles seem to foretell his dad's real battles, Johnny fears he controls his father's fate. A poignant narrative of war and its effects on the people who live through it. Ages 10-14.

Ten-year-old...
AuthorAnn Rinaldi
It's 1900, the dawn of a new century, and fifteen-year-old Rose Frampton is beginning a new life. She's left her family in South Carolina to live with her handsome and wealthy husband in Brooklyn, New York -- a move that is both scary and exciting. As mistress of the large Victorian estate on Dorchester...
AuthorAlan Gratz
ISBN0803730756
Tokyo, 1890. Toyo is caught up in the competitive world of boarding school, and must prove himself to make the team in a new sport called besuboru. But he grieves for his uncle, a samurai who sacrificed himself for his beliefs, at a time when most of Japan is eager to shed ancient traditions. It’s only...
AuthorGraham Salisbury
ISBN0440229561
Eddy Okana lies about his age and joins the Army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers.

Then the Army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American...
Robin's Country
AuthorMonica Furlong
ISBN0679890998
One of the worst robin hood books I have ever read all the way through. And I've read a lot! Worse than "hawksmaid" and "the baron" put together! I dont think I would have even bothered finishing it if I weren't trying to get through my entire stack of books I need to read by next Friday. (Its a big stack and I...
AuthorHarriet McBryde Johnson
ISBN0805076344
Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She goes to normal school and has normal friends. She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. But there Jean meets Sara,...
AuthorSheila Solomon Klass
In the 1700s, women’s responsibilities were primarily child rearing and household duties. But Deborah Sampson wanted more from life. She wanted to read, to travel—and to fight for her country’s independence. When the colonies went to war with the British in 1775, Deborah was intent on being...
AuthorHelen Frost
ISBN0374309620
Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister - Jeannie, who leaves Scotland during the Highland Clearances with her father, mother, and the younger children, and Sarah, who hides so she can stay behind with her grandmother...
AuthorGeert Spillebeen
ISBN0618800352
As a young man, Rudyard Kipling was devastated when his military application was rejected because of poor eyesight. Although Rudyard would go on to win England’s highest accolades, he never got over this lost opportunity to serve his country.

When World War I broke out, John, like his father...
AuthorRonald Kidd
ISBN1416905723
Dayton is a sleepy little town nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. It is long across and about two miles wide. Despite being the home of Bryan College, a school with over 800 students from around the world, it clings persistently to its small-town feel. The local librarians know the gossip on almost...
Bloodline
AuthorKaty Moran
ISBN1406309389
A smooth , compelling read set in Dark Ages England, one of my favourite periods and settings. Traces the stroy of Essa, a half Briton, half Saxon boy abandoned by his travelling bar/spy/father in a Wixna village without explanation when he is nine
He grows up in the village, struggles to find his...
No Moon
AuthorIrene N. Watts
ISBN0887769713
A story of reliance and resilience.Did you call out to us, Johnny, before your small body was dragged down under the water? Why didn't we hear you? I am sorry! I'll never forget.

Louisa Gardener is the fourteen-year-old nursemaid to the young daughters of a wealthy, titled family living in London,...
Salome
AuthorBeatrice Gormley
ISBN0440239796
If I'd never hoped to live in a world of goodness and truth—if the priestess of Diana, then Leander, and Joanna, hadn't shown me glimpses of it—maybe I wouldn't have minded being shut out of it. Maybe the preacher's death wouldn't have trapped me in a dungeon, the dungeon of my own self.

Her...
AuthorStefania Bertola
ISBN8850216009
Molto molto carino. Ho letto questo libro per una challenge alla quale partecipo, mi serviva un libro che parlasse di cucina, possibilmente senza troppo romance in mezzo. Stefania Bertola è un'autrice che conoscevo già e quindi mi sono buttata e ne sono stata felice.
Questo libro è allegro...
AuthorVictoria McKernan
ISBN0375826912
On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in exploration: the crossing of the Antarctic continent. The crew stood on deck to watch the city fade away. All but one.

Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow hid below in...
A Small White Scar
AuthorK.A. Nuzum
I had decided I would have a future.

Will can see his future stretch out before him. It's as clear as the plains that lead to La Junta and the first-place prize at the rodeo. He will become a man, a cowboy with a life of his own. But his twin brother, Denny, follows, bringing with him the memory of that...
Storm
AuthorDonna Jo Napoli
ISBN1481403028
A sixteen-year-old stowaway discovers her destiny on Noah’s ark in this riveting reimagining from award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli, available in time for the March 2014 major motion picture Noah.

The rain starts suddenly, hard and fast. After days of downpour, her family lost, Sebah...
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