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Dancing Through Fire

7 best books like Dancing Through Fire (Kathryn Lasky): The Lottery, Haunted, A Matter of Character, The School Mouse, Ghosts of the Titanic, A Vote of Confidence, Love Letters

The Lottery
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN1563127873
Science Imitating Art

Jackson’s story was published in 1948. At the time, and since, it has been praised as insightful and criticised as obscure. But almost 20 years later, the French philosopher, Rene Girard, produced a theory which has a remarkable congruence with its theme and, I think,...
Haunted
AuthorBarbara Haworth-Attard
ISBN0002008211
Dee is feeding the chickens the morning that bones are discovered on the mountain. Something doesn't feel right—and her feeling is confirmed when local police show her a ring that they found with the bones, a ring belonging to Mary Ann Simpson, who disappeared four years earlier. Other girls, Dee...
A Matter of Character
AuthorRobin Lee Hatcher
ISBN0310258073
The Sisters of Bethlehem Springs series delivers exactly what readers have been waiting for—smart, confident women who are not afraid to defy convention, live their own dreams, and share their lives if the right man comes along. In A Matter of Character, book three in the Sisters of Bethlehem Springs...
The School Mouse
AuthorDick King-Smith
ISBN0786811560
I've sung King-Smith's praises in other reviews, but this time I marked a couple of passages so I could give you specific examples:

"Whether in fact Flora was more intelligent than her nine brothers and sisters we shall never know.... Whether she inherited this thirst for knowledge from her...
Ghosts of the Titanic
AuthorJulie Lawson
ISBN1443100412
Where’s Michael?
Has his body been taken by the sea?
What have you done, robber of the dead?

Kevin gagged with fear, his heart pounding in his throat. The girl was close enough for him to see her pale face, her wide, searching eyes. She was blaming him. Her arms reached out towards him....
A Vote of Confidence
AuthorRobin Lee Hatcher
ISBN0310258057
WHO SAYS A WOMAN CAN'T DO A MAN'S JOB?

PUT UP OR SHUT UP! Complaining about Bethlehem Springs' dissolute mayoral candidate, Gwen Arlington is challenged to take on the role herself. For seven years, she's carved out an independent life in the bustling town of Bethlehem Springs, Idaho, teaching...
Love Letters
AuthorAnne Cassidy
ISBN0439950961
This was a quick read - it was only, what, 200 pages? But still, it was so exciting and a bit creepy.
It took the lead character forever to figure out who the sender of the love letters was, which did get a bit irritating, aswell as her lack of evidence and occasional slip-up :/
But still, it hold a valuable...
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