Cinnamon Moon
10 best books like Cinnamon Moon (Tess Hilmo): Dear Hank Williams, The Girl in the Torch, The Ambrose Deception, The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher, Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter, The Locked Garden, Bronze and Sunflower, Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth, Hunger: A Tale of Courage, Great Ball of Light
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0805080228 |
It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment--learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great-aunt and -uncle...
| Author | Robert Sharenow |
| ISBN | 0062227971 |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets True Grit in this heartfelt novel of resilience, hope, and discovering a family where you least expect it, from award-winning author Robert Sharenow.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, thousands of immigrants are arriving in the promised land of New York...
| Author | Emily Ecton |
| ISBN | 1484788389 |
Melissa is a nobody. Wilf is a slacker. Bondi is a show-off. At least that's what their middle school teachers think. To everyone's surprise, they are the three students chosen to compete for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, solving clues that lead them to various locations around Chicago. At first...
| Author | Jessica Lawson |
| ISBN | 1481401505 |
In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher is the new girl in town, determined to have adventures like she promised her brother Jon before he died. With her Mama frozen in grief and her Daddy busy as town judge, Becky spends much of her time on her own, getting into mischief. Before long, she joins the boys...
| Author | Beth Fantaskey |
| ISBN | 0544582497 |
It’s 1920s Chicago—the guns-and-gangster era of Al Capone—and it’s unusual for a girl to be selling the Tribune on the street corner. But ten-year-old Isabel Feeney is unusual . . . unusually obsessed with being a news reporter. She can’t believe her luck when she stumbles not only into a...
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 0060790946 |
It's the year 1900, the dawn of a new century and a chance for a new beginning for Verna and Carlie, whose mother died two years ago. They are headed to their new home—the grounds of an asylum for the mentally ill. Their father, a doctor, has been hired to treat its patients while the girls are under the strict...
| Author | Cao Wenxuan |
| ISBN | 1406348465 |
When Sunflower, a young city girl, moves to the countryside, she grows to love the reed marsh lands - the endlessly flowing river, the friendly buffalo with their strong backs and shiny, round heads, the sky that stretches on and on in its vastness. However, the days are long, and the little girl is lonely....
| Author | Sheila O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0399161937 |
Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, one young girl is determined to save her brother from the draft--and gets help from an unlikely source--in this middle-grade tale, perfect for fans of
The Wednesday Wars
When eleven-year-old Reenie Kelly's mother passes away, she and her brothers...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 1481477498 |
It is the autumn of 1846 in Ireland. Lorraine and her brother are waiting for the time to pick the potato crop on their family farm leased from an English landowner. But this year is different—the spuds are mushy and ruined... just like last year. What will Lorraine and her family do?
Then Lorraine...
| Author | Evan Kuhlman |
| ISBN | 1416964614 |
A pulsing ball of light launches a host of undeadly adventures in this slightly macabre, slightly irreverent, hugely fun look at what two kids will do to make their family whole again, from the author of The Last Invisible Boy.
When twin brother and sister Fenton and Fiona find a ball of light...
| Author | Alma Flor Ada |
| ISBN | 1442424028 |
A young girl’s discovery of her cultural heritage helps her lovingly cope with loss in this tender tale from acclaimed authors Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel Zubizarreta.
Amalia’s best friend Martha is moving away, and Amalia is feeling sad and angry. And yet, even when life seems unfair, the...
| Author | Barbara Mariconda |
| ISBN | 0062119931 |
The thrilling sequel to The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons, a book that Newbery-winning author Katherine Applegate called “a grand and adventurous tale, as magical and mysterious as the sea itself.”
Ever since Lucy’s parents drowned at sea, she’s been protected by special magic. That’s...
| Author | Ilene Cooper |
| ISBN | 0312370148 |
When Bette finds an angel coin among the money collected in a carwash, she puts it in her pocket and forgets about it. But things start to change, especially once Gabby, a mysterious and kind new neighbor, moves into Bette’s Chicago building.
Suddenly, Bette is able to face some big losses—her...
A mother-daughter duo take part in a bizarre family challenge in hopes of winning a fortune.
Tori Porter is best friends with her mom, and most of the time it's awesome. Not many girls have a mom who'd take them to a graveyard for hide-and-seek or fill the bathtub with ice cream for the world's biggest...
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0147521467 |
From an award-winning author of historical fiction comes a story of survival, crime, adventure, and horses in the streets of 19th century New York City.
Eleven-year-old Rocco is an Italian immigrant who finds himself alone in New York City after he's sold to a padrone by his poverty-stricken...
| Author | Kirkpatrick Hill |
| ISBN | 0805093516 |
It's the 1920s, and Bo was headed for an Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village.
Bo learns Eskimo along with English, helps in the cookshack, learns to polka, and rides...
| Author | Maud Macrory Powell |
| ISBN | 0996755853 |
The streets of Chicago in 1886 are full of turmoil. Striking workers clash with police…illness and injury lurk around every corner…and twelve-year-old Addie must find her way through it all. Torn between her gruff Papa—who owns a hat shop and thinks the workers should be content with their American...
| Author | Adele Whitby |
| ISBN | 1481406310 |
Find out what secrets lurk within the walls of Chatswood Manor in this in this first book of a historical fiction mystery series that explores a family’s secrets throughout generations.
The Chatswood family tree has many branches—and even more secrets. It’s the summer of 1914 in England,...
| Author | Carole Estby Dagg |
| ISBN | 0399172033 |
This exciting pioneering story, based on actual events, introduces readers to a fascinating chapter in American history, when FDR set up a New Deal colony in Alaska to give loans and land to families struggling during the Great Depression.
Terpsichore can’t wait to follow in Laura Ingalls...
| Author | Supriya Kelkar |
| ISBN | 9352755340 |
In 1942, when Mahatma Gandhi asks Indians to give one family member to the freedom movement, ten-year-old Anjali is devastated to think of her father risking his life for the freedom struggle.
But it turns out he isn't the one joining. Anjali's mother is. And with this change comes many more...
| Author | Barbara Dilorenzo |
| ISBN | 0451476417 |
Renato loves his home in Florence, Italy. He loves playing with his friends in the Piazza della Signoria. He loves walking home by the beautiful buildings and fountains with his father in the evenings. And he especially loves the stone lion who seems to smile at him from a pedestal in the piazza. The lion...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0142500348 |
Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from her Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It's 1893, the year of the World's Columbian Exposition-the "wonder of the age"-a.k.a. the Chicago World's Fair. Aunt...
| Author | Dandi Daley Mackall |
| ISBN | 0375968970 |
Thirteen-year-old Tree Taylor has two goals for the summer of '63:
1. Experience her first real kiss. A kiss delivered by a boy. A boy who is not related to her. A kiss worth writing about.
2. Become a famous writer. (Or, at least, write an investigative article that will land her the freshman...
| Author | Tamara Bundy |
| ISBN | 0399544569 |
A poignant middle grade debut about the friendship between a white girl and an elderly black woman in the 1960s South
Alice is angry at having to move to Rainbow, Georgia—a too small, too hot, dried-up place she’s sure will never feel like home. Then she gets put in charge of walking her elderly...
