Can I Get There by Candlelight?

9 best books like Can I Get There by Candlelight? (Jean Slaughter Doty): Misty of Chincoteague, Reading Beauty, Shoplifter, Velva Jean Learns to Drive, Spider Woman's Daughter, Clumsy, Parsnips, Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life, The Opposite of Everyone, Secrets of the Lighthouse

Misty of Chincoteague

Author	Marguerite Henry
ISBN	1416927832

On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Among them is the most mysterious of all, Phantom, a rarely seen mare that eludes all efforts to capture her--that is, until a young boy and girl lay eyes on her and determine that they can't live without her....

Reading Beauty

Author

Deborah Underwood

Once upon a planetoid,
surrounded by book lovers,
a princess, Lex, read morning, noon,
and night (beneath her covers).

When a fairy's curse—a deathlike sleep via paper cut—threatens to make her kingdom barren of books, it's up to space princess Lex to break the spell and...

Shoplifter

Author

Michael Cho

Corrina Park used to have big plans.

Studying English literature in college, she imagined writing a successful novel and leading the idealized life of an author. But she’s been working at the same advertising agency for the past five years and the only thing she’s written is . . . copy. Corrina...

Velva Jean Learns to Drive

Author	Jennifer Niven
ISBN	0452289459

In this spellbinding debut, Velva Jean Hart finds true love-and then risks everything to follow her dreams.

Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South.

Before...

Spider Woman's Daughter

Author	Anne Hillerman
ISBN	0062270486

Legendary tribal sleuths Leaphorn and Chee are back! The supremely talented daughter of New York Times bestselling mystery author Tony Hillerman continues the popular series with this fresh new Navajo Country mystery-her debut novel-filled with captivating lore, startling suspense, bold new...

Clumsy

Author	Jeffrey Brown
ISBN	0971359768

Jeffrey Brown's crude artistic style is certainly an acquired taste, and many may not get past his drawings. However, those willing to delve into his comics will find that his style coincides nicely with the intensely personal nature of his stories. Brown, in both his art and his writing, not only brings...

Parsnips, Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life

Author

Joe Lycett

Dear Reader,

Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram, taxes, newspapers, watches monitoring our sleep, apps that read our pulse, terrorism. There's such an onslaught to the senses these days it's a marvel any of us manage to get out of bed....

The Opposite of Everyone

Author

Joshilyn Jackson

A fiercely independent divorce lawyer learns the power of family and connection when she receives a cryptic message from her estranged mother in this bittersweet, witty novel from the nationally bestselling author of Someone Else's Love Story and gods in Alabama - an emotionally resonant tale about...

Secrets of the Lighthouse

Author	Santa Montefiore
ISBN	1476735379

Ellen Trawton is running away from it all—quite literally. She is due to get married to a man she doesn't love, her job is dragging her down, and her interfering mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she know her mother won't follow her—to her aunt's house in rural Ireland....