Cuckoo in the Nest
10 best books like Cuckoo in the Nest (Michelle Magorian): I Am a Taxi, Jacob's Ladder, Remembrance, Frances's Story, Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949, The Magic Summer, The Peppermint Pig, Goggle-Eyes, India Dark, Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| ISBN | 0888997353 |
For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women’s Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government’s war on drugs. Diego’s adjusted to his new life. His parents are...
| Author | Brian Keaney |
| ISBN | 0763630713 |
Three friends set out in search of their identities — and a link to their past — in a provocative adventure that builds to a deeply satisfying ending.
Jacob awakens inexplicably in a gray, grim place called Locus, where people his age live in dormitories, wear identical gray uniforms, and...
| Author | Theresa Breslin |
| ISBN | 0552547387 |
Scotland, 1915. A group of teenagers from two families meet for a picnic, but the war across the Channel is soon to tear them away from such youthful pleasures. All too soon, the horror of what is to become known as The Great War engulfs them, their friends and the whole village. From the horror of the trenches,...
| Author | Ruth Elwin Harris |
| ISBN | 0763617040 |
I do enjoy this author's style and bright characters! She lets you see beyond what the characters say, and into what they feel. That said, I liked Sarah's Story better, mainly because of the kind of person Sarah was. Frances is very different from her sisters. She lives in her own world made of paint and...
Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949
| Author | Virginia Nicholson |
| ISBN | 0670917788 |
In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0394816315 |
Four children are sent from London to live for the summer with an eccentric poetry quoting Aunt in a rural part of Ireland. They are left to fend for themselves and in the process find friendship and enjoyment in day to day tasks. The children find that there are things to gain from their self sufficient...
| Author | Nina Bawden |
| ISBN | 0140309446 |
Could you possibly have guessed that this book with such a hyper-cute cover has the most inexplicably cruel ending I've ever seen in children's literature?
If 'The Peppermint Pig' (1975) by Nina Bawden was a book for adults, I would have rated it much higher. I am impressed by its nostalgic beauty...
| Author | Anne Fine |
| ISBN | 0140340718 |
"Growing up is a long and confusing business. I try to show that the battle through the chaos is worthwhile and can, at times, be seen as very funny" (Fine, 1994.)
I recall reading this book in year five and feeling really grown up; it was and still is more of a mature take on children’s literature....
| Author | Kirsty Murray |
| ISBN | 1741758580 |
'India Dark' is the story of a troupe of Australian juvenile entertainers who go on tour in the Far East back in 1909-1910. Percival’s Liliputian Opera Company – known as the ‘Liliputians – is the creation of Mr Arthur Percival, a man who has recognised that an audience loves cute, charming children,...
| Author | Jan Morris |
| ISBN | 0156302861 |
Conceptually weak, yet readable, popular history of the British empire, this 3rd book in a 3-part series deals with the last years of the 19th century through the middle part of the 20 century, focusing mainly on geopolitical strategy, armed conflict, leadership figures, and popular sentiment within...
إنها رواية للشبان والشابات. هي قصة فاتن، فتاة قروية ذكية
وطموحة تجبَ على ترك المدرسة والانتقال إلى بيروت للعمل
كخادمة. بإرادتها القويّة ترسم مخططًا...
| 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 | Robert Westall |
| ISBN | 1405200898 |
When one of my favourite teachers recommended this book to me, she said that Westall's writing style was like Michael Morpurgo's, only better. And I have to say, I completely agree with that after finishing this novel.
The novel is set during the Second World War, and follows Harry as his house...
The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War
| Author | Lara Feigel |
| ISBN | 1608199843 |
'The nightly routine of sirens, barrage, the probing raider, the unmistakable engine ... the bomb-bursts moving nearer and then moving away, hold one like a love-charm' --Graham Greene
When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a strange kind...
| Author | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
| ISBN | 0006929443 |
It's easy for me to be flippant about the Chalet School and, to be frank, it is a mode I adopt quite often when discussing this bizarre, brilliant and all too frustrating series. But it is not easy for me to be flippant about The Chalet School at War; a book full of ache and of pain and so, I shall not.
I...
Dancing in a Distant Place
| Author | Isla Dewar |
| ISBN | 0312349467 |
A warm and intelligent novel about a young teacher who throws herself into the lives of her students in the hopes of forgetting the past, only to find it returning more vividly than ever.
When Iris Chisholm arrives in the tiny Scottish Highland community of Green Cairns, she's still in a state of shock--not...
The Wages Of Guilt: Memories Of War In Germany And Japan
| Author | Ian Buruma |
| ISBN | 0099477912 |
This is a very moving book. It explains how the two nations that precipitated World War II, Germany and Japan have coped – and in particular how they have struggled with the guilt of the atrocities they committed against the people and countries they occupied.
The author spent considerable...
| Author | Astrid Lindgren |
| ISBN | 9129629934 |
Astrid Lindgren har redan visat att hon inte bara är en mästare i den burleska genre för vilken Pippi Långstrump är en så strålande exponent. Men ändå kommer nog hennes sagor att bli en överraskning för många.
Här finns både älvor och pysslingar, och ändå har de inte ett spår...
