Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job
10 best books like Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job (Willo Davis Roberts): The Middle Moffat, The River at Green Knowe, Long May She Reign, Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics, The FitzOsbornes at War, Flambards, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, This Place Has No Atmosphere, The Well-Wishers, Silver
| Author | Eleanor Estes |
| ISBN | 0152025294 |
Who is Jane Moffat, anyway? She isn't the youngest in the family, and she isn't the oldest-she is always just Jane. How boring. So Jane decides to become a figure of mystery . . . the mysterious "Middle Moffat." But being in the middle is a lot harder than it looks.
In between not rescuing stray dogs,...
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
| ISBN | 0312367678 |
Meg Powers is the daughter of the President of the United States. She's about to enter her first year of college. She's living through the worst year of her life.
Last June Meg was kidnapped by terrorists - brutalized, starved, and left for dead. She was shackled in a deserted mine shaft and had...
Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
| Author | Chris Grabenstein |
| ISBN | 0553510401 |
Welcome, boys and girls, readers of all ages, to the first-ever Library Olympiad! Kyle and his teammates are back, and the world-famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, is at it again!
This time Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS....
| Author | Michelle Cooper |
| ISBN | 0375970509 |
Michelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history and romance with The FitzOsbornes at War.
Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out in England and around the world, nowhere is safe....
| Author | K.M. Peyton |
| ISBN | 0192719556 |
Description: A totally absorbing novel about twelve-year-old Christina who is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household, divided by emotional...
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0064400980 |
Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are twelve—old enough to do lots of things...even go downtown on their own. There they see their first horseless carriage, discover the joys of the public library, and see a real play at the Opera House. They even find themselves acting in one! Best of all, they help a lonely new friend...
This Place Has No Atmosphere
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0142406805 |
A gorgeous new package for Paula Danziger’s backlist with an introduction from Ann Martin!
In the year 2057 people live in malls, take classes in ESP, and get detention from robots. Fifteen-year-old Aurora loves everything about her life. She’s part of the coolest group of kids at school and...
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152949941 |
Just when the children thought the magic in the old well was all played out (that is, if it was magic!) and had sworn an oath in blood not to make any more wishes until the well gave them a sign, Gordy—in a reckless moment—told it to get going with its magic, or else! Something certainly did begin to happen...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0380750260 |
My mother is determined that I will have a wonderful life -- better than her own. I guess she can't imagine what it is like for me, a kid from a trailer park, to transfer to the junior high school where all the rich kids go -- the kind of kids who come from homes where my mother works as a cleaning woman....
But...
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0064408590 |
It is the summer of 1911, and Carney Sibley is back home in her beloved town of Deep Valley, Minnesota. She's looking forward to hosting a month-long house party, with guests including her Vassar college roommate Isobel Porteous and old chum Betsy Ray. With lots of the old Crowd and a new friend--wealthy,...
The beloved Noel Streatfeild classic back in print!
It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnson’s doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her feeling frail and listless. For on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0679854347 |
February 2018: This is, very quietly, one of Streatfield's strongest works. I really, really like this, from that early moment when the American soldier puts the basket "half on Hannah's knees, and half on the skinny knees of the woman with her rights" - or maybe it's even earlier, from the implicit humor...
