Baby
10 best books like Baby (Patricia MacLachlan): Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, The Giver: Graphic Novel, Tales from Silver Lands, Heaven, Will Sparrow's Road, Tales from the Odyssey, Part 2, Tales from the Odyssey, Part 1, Betsy in Spite of Herself, The Sign of the Beaver
Author | Barbara Cohen |
ISBN | 0688135633 |
In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different. Buran cannot—Buran will not—sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There,...
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Author | Julie Andrews Edwards |
ISBN | 0060218053 |
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
was the second children’s novel ever written by Julie Andrews, the beloved star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Perfect for young readers who love whimsical stories about magic!
The Whangdoodle was once the wisest, the kindest, and the...
Author | Lois Lowry |
ISBN | 0544157885 |
Now in graphic novel format, Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning classic story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world is accompanied by renowned artist P.Craig Russell’s beautifully haunting illustrations. .
Author | Charles J. Finger |
ISBN | 0385048157 |
Tales from Silver Lands is a collection of nineteen folktales, which Finger collected during his travels in South America. In them an assortment of animals, magical creatures, witches, giants, and children struggle for a life in which good overcomes evil. These fast-moving and adventuresome fantasies...
Author | Angela Johnson |
ISBN | 0689822901 |
Marley has lived in Heaven since she was two years old, when her mother found a postcard postmarked HEAVEN, OH on a park bench and decided that was where she wanted to raise her family.
And for twelve years, Marley's hometown has lived up to its name. She lives in a house by the river, has loving parents,...
Author | Karen Cushman |
ISBN | 0547739621 |
In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe...
Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
ISBN | 1423126106 |
After twenty years of fighting monsters, angering gods and goddesses, and surviving against the odds, Odysseus is more desperate than ever to return to his family. But first he will have to explore yet another strange land. And when he finally does return home, he will have yet more dangerous enemies...
Tales from the Odyssey, Part 1
Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
ISBN | 1423128648 |
Giants and Cannibals!
Wonders and Witches!
One Amazing Hero.
Brave Odysseus is far from home, tossed by stormy seas, and cursed by an angry one-eyed giant. If he ever wants to see his family again, he will have to face hungry cannibals, outwit a beautiful witch, and sail past a six-headed...
Betsy in Spite of Herself
Betsy Ray is now a sophomore, and she and her Crowd are in the thick of things at Deep Valley High. Whether she's carrying out her duties as class secretary, trying to charm the exasperating Joe Willard, or juggling the demands of rhetoricals, football games, parties, and exams, Betsy's got her hands...
Author | Elizabeth George Speare |
It's the time of the American Revolution and new Americans like Matt and his family are heading out to colonize areas of virgin territory.
Matt and his father head to Maine territory to stake their claim, which involves declaring their land, building a home and planting crops. Once they've...