Ballet Shoes for Anna
10 best books like Ballet Shoes for Anna (Noel Streatfeild): Reticence, Things a Bright Girl Can Do, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Five Children and It, Tarka the Otter, The Phoenix and the Carpet, Carrie's War, A Dream of Sadler's Wells, Autumn Term, The School at the Chalet
| Author | Gail Carriger |
| ISBN | 0316433918 |
Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's The Custard Protocol series.
Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her...
| Author | Sally Nicholls |
| ISBN | 1783445254 |
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book Prize
Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for...
The Lives of Christopher Chant
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0688163653 |
His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367357 |
I read Five Children and It with the Women’s Classic Literature Enthusiasts group and enjoyed it immensely. If you like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and its series' mates by Betty MacDonald, you will like Five Children and It. The ideal child reader of this book is between second and fifth grade, with a fondness...
| Author | Henry Williamson |
| ISBN | 0807085073 |
This is the life story of an otter called Tarka that means "Water Wanderer." What I like about this book is that I was able to learn so many things about an animal that I have not seen in the real world. I do not even remember seeing one in a number of zoos, both local and overseas, that I have so far been to.
The...
The Phoenix and the Carpet
That evening, Mother read to them from a book called The Phoenix and the Carpet, which she had had since she was a little girl. Like all the best children's books, it was written to be read aloud; you immediately knew that Mrs. Nesbit had read it aloud to her own children, and every now and then she had put in...
| Author | Nina Bawden |
| ISBN | 0140364560 |
Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister,...
| Author | Lorna Hill |
| ISBN | 0859976777 |
Lorna Hill never intended to be an author, though she was to write a total of 40 children’s books, some of which have been reprinted countless times over the years, a commissioned biography of the dancer Marie Taglioni, entitled “La Sylphide”, and two romances for adults. But it’s a bit of a fluke...
| Author | Antonia Forest |
| ISBN | 0571206409 |
I don't know how I managed never to discover Forest when I was younger, but I'm glad to find her now. She was recommended to me by some friends on-line, and four books kindly sent to me by a friend in England. They are hard to find here—I don't know why the heck they are not in constant print. At the front introduction...
| Author | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
| ISBN | 0006925170 |
Well, I've reread about ten of these today (not going to rate them all, thinking of your poor feeds), and I've only got about twenty in the series, which must contain over fifty books...
I tend to divide the copies I've got into two sets. The first set is the beginning of the school, which is a boarding...
| Author | Jean Estoril |
| ISBN | 0590421905 |
I received this book from my cousin when I was quite young, perhaps about 8 or 9. I'm not sure how many times I read it as a child, but it was a favorite. I loved the illustration on the cover- the edition I had as a child was the Scholastic edition with the pink cover.
A few years ago, I was poking around...
First Term at Malory Towers
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 0749744812 |
My mother was 3 years old when this book came out in 1946. Her copy was on my shelf as a child and after reading 20 or so Famous Five books I reluctantly picked it up, trusting Blyton to make even a girls' school interesting. I have vague memories of thinking it was OK.
I got my daughter Celyn the books...
Third Year at Malory Towers
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 1405224053 |
Book #3 for my Malory Towers Challenge, or rather of me reading through the Malory Towers books chronologically. Although this one is titled ‘third year’, as always, it deals with one term at the school. The story opens as usual with Darrell preparing to return to Malory Towers, where her sister...
