Dance in the Desert
10 best books like Dance in the Desert (Madeleine L'Engle): Harold and the Purple Crayon, Whose Body?, The End, The Selfish Giant, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging, Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz, Angelmass, Walking with Miss Millie, Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City
Harold and the Purple Crayon
| Author | Crockett Johnson |
| ISBN | 0747532036 |
"One night, after thinking it over for some time, Harold decided to go for a walk in the moonlight." So begins this gentle story that shows just how far your imagination can take you. Armed only with an oversized purple crayon, young Harold draws himself a landscape full of beauty and excitement. But this...
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0061043575 |
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a...
| Author | Lemony Snicket |
| ISBN | 0064410161 |
The last volume of the fabulously popular A Series of Unfortunate Events series, in which the history of the Baudelaire orphans is brought to its end.
You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read...
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0399224483 |
Don't you tell me that you have not read this one!
The sign that got trapped in the labyrinth of my 3rd grade mind reading his English Gulmohar was this :
Got burnt into my memory. And that is how I dug this books out of my pensive to add it here on Goodreads - by searching...
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers
The New York Times Best Seller
For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charmingly illustrated treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults...
Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
| Author | Brennan Manning |
| ISBN | 1576833348 |
Many Christians feel broken and angry but don't think they can express these real feelings around others--or to God. So we put on a mask to hide our identity. Feelings of embarrassment and shame make us hide from the One who truly loves us. Author Brennan Manning encourages you to let go of this stressful,...
Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz
| Author | Michael Bornstein |
| ISBN | 0374305714 |
In 1945, in a now-famous piece of archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother’s arms. Survivors Club tells the unforgettable story of how a father’s courageous wit, a mother’s fierce love, and one perfectly...
Angelmass, a black hole deep in space, emits "angels," small particles that render humans calm, reasonable, and virtually incapable of lying. The Empyrean, human colonies in the far reaches of the galaxy, has discovered the angels and the power they wield. All members of Empyrean government must...
| 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...
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374306133 |
The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.
By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant...
Love Lives Here: Finding What You Need in a World Telling You What You Want
| Author | Maria Goff |
| ISBN | 1433648911 |
This is a book about discovering what we really need. There are a lot of second-best options, but we weren’t made to live a second-best life. Finding what we actually need is different than what we are often offered. There are many books full of opinions, steps and programs. This isn’t one of them....
Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
| Author | Elizabeth Willard Thames |
| ISBN | 0062668153 |
The deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced frugality to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life, and retire to a homestead in the Vermont woods at age thirty-two with her husband and...
The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy.
| Author | Tom Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 1594206775 |
The inspirational story of Welles Crowther, whose decision, determination and sacrifice in the terror of 9/11 have inspired millions, and whose short life offers a lasting lesson on character, calling, and courage--in how we live, and in the legacy we choose to leave behind
When Welles...
