Bright Island

10 best books like Bright Island (Mabel Louise Robinson): The Blue Cat of Castle Town, Downright Dencey, All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud, The Secret River, The Jumping-Off Place, Journey Outside, The Loner, Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount Saint Helens, When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories, Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America

AuthorCatherine Cate Coblentz
ISBN0914378058
You're probably wondering why this book was awarded the Newbery Honor. It's obviously not very popular at all - less than 100 people have rated it! That should tell you something, right?

Wrong. I thought so, too, until I actually tried it for myself.

This is the story of a blue cat who...
AuthorCaroline Dale Snedeker
ISBN1883937795
This treasure of a novel, a Newbery Honor Book, is set on the island of Nantucket just before the War of 1812. Much more than a tale of whaling ships and gentle Quaker eccentricities, it is a tale of friendship-the kind most truly espoused by these 'plain' folk, with all the struggle and complexity one should...
AuthorArmstrong Sperry
ISBN0879235233
I found this title in an used bookstore in the little town of Columbia Falls, Montana, and paid $10 for it thinking it was a non-fiction account of the legendary sailing ship Flying Cloud. My copy is a 1935 edition and includes a very large number of superb woodcut illustrations. Instead of the factual...
AuthorMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings
ISBN1416911790
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings + Leo and Diane Dillon = pure magic!
A depression era story that is just as timely as it is enchanting, this is a stunning picture book for the ages.

There's just not enough not enough money, not enough food, not enough fish for her daddy to sell at the market. Hard times...
AuthorMarian Hurd McNeely
ISBN0979894042
This book follows the story of Becky (17), Dick (15), Phil (10) and Joan (8) Linville as they leave behind their home in Platteville, Wisconsin to homestead out in South Dakota in 1910. Their beloved Uncle Jim squatted the claim last fall, before his untimely death, and the children are determined to...
AuthorMary Q. Steele
ISBN0140305882
Grandfather said they were headed for the Better Place, but Dilar suspected they were headed nowhere, simply following the dark underground river blindly. And so one night he leaped onto a shelf of rock and watched the flotilla of the Raft People disappear. And from there he found his way Outside, into...
AuthorEster Wier
ISBN0590443526
Excellent story that I am sad to have never encountered before. It moves quickly, but covers a lot. There are a couple of early episodes that gave me a false sense of what the book would be, but after those, it settles in to a pretty focused setting and group of characters. One of those early episodes is very...
AuthorPatricia Lauber
ISBN0689716796
May 18, 1980, 8:32 A.M.: An earthquake suddenly triggered an avalanche on Mount St. Helens, a volcano in southern Washington State. Minutes later, Mount St. Helens blew the top off its peak and exploded into the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history.

What caused the eruption?...
AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN0374383162
"In our time, when literature is losing its address and the telling of stories is becoming a forgotten art, children are the best readers."

—When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw & Other Stories, from the Foreward

I have to admit, Isaac Bashevis Singer really has a way with folk tale humor....
AuthorEdwin Tunis
I did not read every word. It is very readable, but there was too much history (compared to the Guide as promised in the title) in it for me. The illustrations were great, esp. of the actually tools and gear. Now, I wouldn't necessarily object to all that text of Westward Ho, but too much of it was written in...
AuthorMary Stolz
ISBN0762418893
At last, Mary Stolz's 1962 Newbery Honor-winning book is back. And now, for the first time, the classic story is brought to life with colorful illustrations in a picture book format. Award-winning illustrator Pierre Pratt adds whimsical new art to this charming tale about two little mice assigned...
AuthorClaire Huchet Bishop
ISBN0590457071
Oloo!-Oo-oo-oop!-ooooo! All alone, high on the slope of the Little Giant in the French Alps of Saucie, ten-year-old Marcel yodeled to keep himself company. Like other boys in his village, Marcel would have to look over the family's cows during the summer; and the flexible, age-old rule was, "Don't...
AuthorMarguerite de Angeli
ISBN0856860824
Vikings & Scotland in the 10th century.

"Now we shall go a-Viking," Harald Redbeard announced, and so it was that Kan and Brus, Harald's twin sons, found themselves on the dragon-prowed Raven of the Wind, its striped sails set for England. But storms, ancient enemies of the sea-faring...
AuthorErick Berry
ISBN1589881206
Inas leaps at adventure. She dives to the bottom of the Aegean Sea to harvest sponges and somersaults over charging bulls in front of thousands of people. Best of all, she soars from cliffs wearing the glider-wings her father builds in secret, safe from the prying eyes of their neighbors, who think flying...
AuthorMari Sandoz
ISBN0803291604
Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leaving the world of a Cheyenne tribe in the 1830s, she creates a youthful protagonist many readers will recognize in themselves. Young Elk is expected to be...
AuthorCyrus Fisher
ISBN0802776930
As read from OpenLibrary, I found this surprisingly charming.

It's mostly about the boy, John (Jean when he's in France) as he faces the challenges of growing from a pampered boy to a stronger and wiser young man. He's sort of forced to 'man up' in just a few weeks, as he's left to live with his 'oncle'...
AuthorCornelia Meigs
ISBN9997488687
One of five Newbery Honor Books for 1922, the year the award was first established, The Windy Hill is the story of fifteen-year-old Oliver Peyton, who, together with his younger sister Janet, comes to stay with his Cousin Jasper at his home in Medford Valley. Resentful at Cousin Jasper's unprecedented...
AuthorHarold Courlander
ISBN0805002987
Read for Newbery, would not have picked it up otherwise, would have missed a fun & enlightening read.

Concise, a fast and enjoyable read, with lovely pictures. The notes and the vibe make it feel authentic and respectful, and I have seen some of the stories in more modern books, so I trust...
AuthorRebecca Caudill
I guess I'm not a Caudill fan across the board. It wasn't like this was terrible; it just wasn't terribly good either. The family relationships weren't sweet like I assumed they would be since several of her other books score nicely on that point. And it was just kind of boring ...

In 1780, Stephanie...
AuthorJames Cloyd Bowman
ISBN1590172248
“Pecos Bill had the strangest and most exciting experience any boy ever had. He became a member of a pack of wild Coyotes, and until he was a grown man, believed that his name was Cropear, and that he was a full-blooded Coyote. Later he discovered that he was a human being and very shortly thereafter became...
AuthorSorche Nic Leodhas
ISBN0370010663
A collection of ten Scottish legends passed down through the ages Scottish culture is rich with mythology. There are tales of monks and saints, fairies and witches, kings, nobles, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Some stories were never written down, shared instead through retellings...
AuthorWilliam Bowen
ISBN9997488679
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure is a children's fantasy novel by William Bowen that was named a Newbery Honor book.

Five-year-old Freddie meets the owner of a nearby tobacco shop, Mr. Toby Littleback; his old-maid aunt, Aunt Amanda; and...
Shadrach
AuthorMeindert DeJong
ISBN0064401154
Even after Davie had had the little black rabbit, Shadrach, for several weeks, it was still almost unbelievable. Every morning when Davie woke up it was a miracle all over again — there in his grandfather's barn sat a little black rabbit, and it was his. David had never been happier... until the day Shadrach...
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