Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
10 best books like Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (Maud Hart Lovelace): The Two Princesses of Bamarre, All-of-a-Kind Family, All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, More All-of-a-Kind Family, The First Four Years, The Moffats, Understood Betsy, Ramona the Brave, The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five
The Two Princesses of Bamarre
| Author | Gail Carson Levine |
| ISBN | 0060575808 |
Twelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of gryphons, specters, and ogres. Addie, on the other hand, is fearful even of spiders and depends on Meryl for courage and protection. Waving her sword Bloodbiter, the older girl declaims in the garden...
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0385732953 |
It's the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters - Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie. Follow along as they search for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front parlor, or explore the basement warehouse of Papa's peddler's...
All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0929093216 |
Sydney Taylor grew up among immigrant families on New York City's Lower East Side prior to World War I and wrote the All-of-a-Kind Family series for her daughter. This sequel finds talented Ella, mischievous Henny, studious Sarah, dreamy Charlotte, and little Gertie helping Mama with their new baby...
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0929093100 |
In the third book of Sydney Taylor's classic children's series, Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew. Thus continues the tale of a Jewish family of five sisters-Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie-and little brother, Charlie, living at the turn of the century in...
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060885459 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. Laura is a young pioneer wife now, and must work hard with Almanzo, farming the land around their home on the South Dakota prairie. Soon their baby daughter, Rose, is born, and the young family must face the...
| Author | Eleanor Estes |
| ISBN | 0152025413 |
The Moffats, who live in the same town as the owners of Ginger Pye, are a close-knit family of four children and a hard-working seamstress mother, whose bust "Madame" occupies a central position in the family's little brown house. Although the children are essentially good-hearted, they get into an...
| Author | Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
| ISBN | 1887840133 |
For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to her "horrid Putney cousins." But when her aunt can no longer care for her, Elizabeth Ann must leave her sheltered life to live in the wilds of Vermont with those distant relatives.
In the beginning,...
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0192751077 |
I've had a copy of Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Brave somewhere in my house, regardless of where I've lived or how old my kids are, for 4 decades now, but I never had the audiobook, narrated by Stockard Channing.
I don't really “do” audiobooks (exceptions made by books narrated by Colin Firth...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0805070613 |
Following on from the first book, the Melendy family move from the city to the countryside to live in a house called The Four-Story Mistake. Some of the family were sad to leave New York but soon they all discover the space and the freedom and a whole new load of adventures.
We loved following the...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0805070621 |
This 1944 YA/middle grade novel is a charming, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, when kids explored the outdoors, swam in swimming holes, searched for Indian arrowheads, and fished for jumbo catfish. A livestock auction and homemade fair with a variety show of local talent provide enough excitement...
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.
Betsy is scared about going...
The Toothpaste Millionaire
| Author | Jean Merrill |
| ISBN | 0618759255 |
Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toothpaste. Betting he can make a gallon of his own for the same price as one tube from the store, Rufus develops a step-by-step production plan with help from his good friend Kate MacKinstrey. By the time he...
| 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...
