Bandit's Moon
8 best books like Bandit's Moon (Sid Fleischman): Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party, The Castle of Llyr, Turtle in Paradise, The Cay, The Black Cauldron, The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel, The Turning, The Wonder of Charlie Anne
Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party
| Author | Rachel K. Laurgaard |
| ISBN | 0961735724 |
This book tells about the Reed family in one of the wagon trains taking pioneers to California. The story is told from the point of view of Dolly, a doll that traveled in Patty Reed's pocket. The Reed family wasn't actually with the Donner family when the infamous cannibalism took place so Dolly did not...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0805080503 |
Princess Eilonwy hates to leave her friend Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and her beloved home, Caer Dallben. Why does she have to go to the Isle of Mona to train as a proper lady when she's already a princess? But Eilonwy soon faces much more than the ordeal of becoming a dignified young maiden, for she possesses...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0375836888 |
Life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple.
She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping...
Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.
When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle...
Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper, and his friends are led into a mortal struggle with Arawn and his deathless warriors. Taran must wrest the black cauldron from them, for it is the cauldron that gives them their evil strength. But can he withstand the three enchantresses, who are determined to turn him...
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0375848185 |
“A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred
Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to...
| Author | Francine Prose |
| ISBN | 0061999660 |
A dark house.
An isolated island.
Strange dreams
and even stranger
visions . . .
Jack is spending the summer on a private island far from modern conveniences. No Wi-Fi, no cell service, no one else on the island but a housekeeper and the two very peculiar children in his care....
| Author | Kimberly Newton Fusco |
| ISBN | 0375861041 |
Charlie Anne is devastated when her father must go north to build roads after the Depression hits. She and her siblings are left with their rigid cousin, Mirabel, and a farm full of chores. The only solace Charlie Anne finds is by the river, where the memory of her mother is strongest.
Then her...
