Around the World in 100 Days
8 best books like Around the World in 100 Days (Gary L. Blackwood): To the Nines, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter, Dawn and the Impossible Three, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel, Molokai, Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday, Lafayette!
| Author | Janet Evanovich |
| ISBN | 0747267634 |
Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli...oh, the list goes on). An ordinary person would cave under the pressure.
But hey, she's...
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
| Author | Adeline Yen Mah |
| ISBN | 0440228654 |
A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.
A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph...
Dawn and the Impossible Three
| Author | Gale Galligan |
| ISBN | 1338067117 |
Dawn Schafer is the newest member of The Baby-sitters Club. While she's still adjusting to life in Stoneybrook after moving from sunny California, she's eager to accept her first big job. But taking care of the three Barrett kids would be too much for any baby-sitter. The house is always a mess, the kids...
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...
The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| ISBN | 1773061186 |
This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.
Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building...
| Author | O.A. Bushnell |
| ISBN | 0451024788 |
Molokai--one of the beautiful Hawaiian islands, but in the late nineteenth century, a name synonymous with a desolate leper colony. Kalaupapa, accessible only from the sea, was "The Given Grave," where victims of the dreaded disease were sent to die, exiled in a desperate attempt to halt the spread...
Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday
| Author | Rachel Renée Russell |
| ISBN | 1534426388 |
It’s Nikki Maxwell’s birthday!! Will it be a blast or a bust? Find out in Nikki’s newest diary, the thirteenth installment in the #1 New York Times blockbuster bestselling Dork Diaries series!
Nikki and her BFF’s Chloe and Zoey have been planning a birthday party of epic proportions!...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419731483 |
The Frenchman who changed the course of the American Revolution.
Gilbert du Motier became the Marquis de Lafayette at a young age, but he was not satisfied with the comforts of French nobility—he wanted adventure!
A captain at eighteen and a major general by nineteen, he was eager...
