At the Sign of the Star
10 best books like At the Sign of the Star (Katherine Sturtevant): The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets, The River Between Us, The Gentleman Outlaw and Me--Eli, Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary, Signal, The Maude Reed Tale, Secrets on 26th Street, Red Moon at Sharpsburg, Rodzina, Debutantes in Love
| Author | Nancy Springer |
| ISBN | 0399245189 |
Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes' right-hand man - so when he goes missing, it's a shock. Even Sherlock hasn't, well, the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued, but weary; she's still hiding from her older brothers - and getting involved could be disastrous.
But...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0142403105 |
The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to make ends meet and hold the dwindling Pruitt family together. Then one night a mysterious girl arrives on...
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380728834 |
When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Eliza Yates is left at the mercy of her aunt and uncle. Teased by her cousins and made to do all of the chores, Eliza finally decides that the next time her uncle beats her she will run away. She doesn't have long to wait.
During the night she takes off to find...
| Author | Ruby Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1903155436 |
Sometimes the introduction (or foreword) to a book is a pointless bore, but it can also illuminate a book in a particular way that makes the reading experience more enjoyable. Candia McWilliam provides the foreword to this one and I highly recommend that you read it first, as it does set you up for what...
| Author | Cynthia C. DeFelice |
| ISBN | 0374399158 |
One day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area--"alien "meaning "from someplace else"--and...
| Author | Norah Lofts |
| ISBN | 0440955297 |
A most unladylike heroine struggles to outwit the system that would have her become a lady.
"I do not want to be a lady. I want to be a wool merchant."
In those two sentences young Maude Reed expresses her most burning desire. But in fifteenth-century England, girls...
| Author | Elizabeth McDavid Jones |
| ISBN | 1562477609 |
History Mysteries are a fantastic way to introduce children and pre-teens to historical topics. One of the reasons I am so fascinated with history is because of these books and the American Girl books in general. Each one provides a snapshot into a specific historical event or theme, and builds a fictional...
| Author | Rosemary Wells |
| ISBN | 0670036382 |
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...
In 1881, 12-year-old Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski wishes she didn’t have to board the orphan train in Chicago. But she has no home, no family, and no choice. Rodzina doesn’t believe the orphans are on their way out West to be adopted by good families. She’s sure they will become slaves...
| Author | Cora Harrison |
| ISBN | 1447205952 |
Bright lights, dark secrets and first love in the second book in this gorgeous series.
It’s 1924. Leaving their beloved Beech Grove Manor to go to London for the season, Poppy and Daisy Derrington know that they must shine as debutantes.
Since a girl cannot inherit her father's estate,...
| Author | Joan Elizabeth Goodman |
| ISBN | 0698118073 |
Hope's father works for General Washington during the revolutionary war. Tories break into their house and burn everything down and even kidnap Hope who is just a young girl. Taken back to the Torie's house Hope is treated very badly, especially by the wife. Fortunately there's an older woman who helps...
| Author | Richard Scrimger |
| ISBN | 0142408182 |
Charlie Fairmile's got problems. He's about to start a new year at Schuyler Colfax Middle school, and his dad has been accused of bank robbery. Charlie knows that his dad is innocent, but the police insist that Mr. Fairmile must be the stocking bandit. So Charlie has no choice but to try to find the real...
| Author | Helen Frost |
| ISBN | 0374309620 |
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...
| Author | Polly Horvath |
| ISBN | 0374399565 |
Love under trying circumstances
One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who...
| Author | Graham Salisbury |
| ISBN | 0385731221 |
DYLAN'S SCOUT TROOP goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The only thing wrong with the weekend on a beautiful, peaceful beach is Louie, a tough older boy. Louie and Dylan just can't get along.
That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave...
| 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 | Frances Temple |
| ISBN | 0064406016 |
The year is 1299. Fourteen year-old Elenor reluctantly awaits the return of her betrothed -- a man she hardly knows -- from the Crusade. Thomas, broken, and disillusioned from years of fighting, finds the very idea of marriage and lordship overwhelming. So when the village priest sends them on religious...
| Author | Ronald Kidd |
| ISBN | 1416905723 |
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...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0688152325 |
It had been only two months since Spoon Gilmore's grandmother died, but already he was worried that he would forget her. That's why he needed something of Gram's - something special that had belonged to her, something to remember her by.
Spoon wasn't quite sure what the something was, though...
| Author | Will Weaver |
| ISBN | 0374324859 |
The times they are a-changin' . . .
The summer that Paul turns sixteen his mother pushes him to take a job in town instead of just working on the family farm. You need to meet the public, she says, which is saying a lot for a woman deeply committed to the tightly knit religious community to which...
| Author | Teri Kanefield |
| ISBN | 0615541887 |
Rivka has never been beyond the walls of Prague's Jewish quarter. One day she ventures outside . . and nothing will ever be the same.
* Sydney Taylor Book Awards, Notable Book 2001.
* Lilith Magazine's 5th Annual Selection of Books for Young Readers
* Included in Great Books for Girls,...
| Author | Eva Ibbotson |
| ISBN | 0099226014 |
Susanna Weber is renowned for producing the most elegant, exquisite couture in Vienna. As all of fashionable society passes through her fitting room, Susanna touches numerous lives as matchmaker, comforter, confidante...and passionate lover.
From the improverished yet proud Countess...
