Clover
10 best books like Clover (Susan Coolidge): Just Jane, The Wide, Wide World, Winona's Pony Cart, The School at the Chalet, A School of Her Own, Mother, Flambards Divided, A Garland for Girls, Heidi's Children, Five Little Peppers Grown Up
| Author | Nancy Moser |
| ISBN | 0764203568 |
In this moving and authentic portrayal, Christy Award-winning author Nancy Moser transports readers back to the life and times of one of the literary world's beloved heroines, Jane Austen. Growing up in a clergyman's home gives Jane opportunities to observe human nature at its best—and worst....
| Author | Susan Bogert Warner |
| ISBN | 0935312668 |
First published in 1850 and exceeded in popularity then only by Uncle Tom's Cabin, this domestic epic narrates the seven-year pilgrimage of a girl sent out into the world at age ten by a dying mother and a careless father. Moved from relative to relative, Ellen Montgomery astonishes by remaining faithful...
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0064408604 |
Welcome back to Deep Valley!Winona Root is almost eight years old. More than anything in the world, she wants a pony for her birthday. She wishes so hard for a pony that she's sure to get one--at least, that's what she tells her friends Betsy, Tacy, and Tib. It's only when the exciting day grows near that...
| Author | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
| ISBN | 0006925170 |
Well, I've reread about ten of these today (not going to rate them all, thinking of your poor feeds), and I've only got about twenty in the series, which must contain over fifty books...
I tend to divide the copies I've got into two sets. The first set is the beginning of the school, which is a boarding...
Mabel is done with high school and ready to teach her first year of school at a little country one-room schoolhouse. Her boyfriend, Russ, is pressuring her to make plans for their future wedding, but Mabel isn't ready to commit to a formal engagement. Meanwhile, Mabel has trouble with her country students...
| Author | Kathleen Thompson Norris |
| ISBN | 1929241178 |
This is a difficult age to be a woman. The woman who aspires to raise children for the glory of God, to develop the ministry of the home, or to co-labor with her husband is deemed “old-fashioned” or “unfulfilled.” The modern lure of independence and career has bewitched an entire generation to...
| Author | K.M. Peyton |
| ISBN | 0192750550 |
K.M. Peyton surprised many devoted fans of Flambards by returning to her beloved trilogy many years after its publication to write this controversial fourth book. As far as I can tell, readers love it or hate it (and some wish she had never written it because it is somewhat disillusioning). Yet to me,...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 1406931187 |
"Written for my own amusement," says Alcott herself? Well, the original readers she won over with LITTLE WOMEN and LITTLE MEN probably scooped up this whole bouquet of charming stories, which probably left a favorable fragrance and a curiosity as to what Ms. Alcott's next offering would be. Today's...
| Author | Charles Tritten |
| ISBN | 0307122212 |
When I was seven or eight, there was a block of flats near my home which were condemned. My sister, her friend and I spent several afternoons exploring the old flats. In one of them, I found abandoned copies of Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Song. I read them, loved them, and lost them.
In need of comfort...
Five Little Peppers Grown Up
| Author | Margaret Sidney |
| ISBN | 1426425171 |
Oh my, how I loved this books as a child. They were very dear to me and are firmly entrenched into my memory strong enough to have become parts of my character. There are is a veritable plethora of life examples and lessons to be learned through these works of literature that take us back to a simpler time and...
| Author | Murray Pura |
| ISBN | 0736952853 |
For fans of the hugely popular Downton Abbey series, comes this equally enthralling story of the Danforth family of Ashton Park.
Among the green hills and trees of Lancashire, only a few miles from the sea, lies the beautiful and ancient estate of Ashton Park.
The year is 1916. The First...
