Dead Letter
10 best books like Dead Letter (Betsy Byars): The Killer's Tears, Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico, A Ghost in the House, Apple Island, Or The Truth About Teachers, Darby, Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs, The Bears' House, Wolf Rider, Gabriel's Horses, Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox
| Author | Anne-Laure Bondoux |
| ISBN | 0385733844 |
Angel Allegria arrives at the Poloverdos’ farmhouse. He kills the farmer and his wife, but he spares their child, Paolo. Together the killer and the boy begin a new life on this remote and rugged stretch of land in Chile.
On the afternoon when Angel Allegria arrives at the Poloverdos’ farmhouse,...
| Author | Verna Aardema |
| ISBN | 0679889361 |
Petra Mather's illustrations are bright, and actually rather sweet, if not cute, and I do much appreciate the idea that a little lamb is able to cunningly outsmart a cunning and stalking coyote (the coyote reminds me a bit of the big bad wolf, so common in European folktales and culture). That being said,...
| Author | Betty Ren Wright |
| ISBN | 0590436031 |
Sarah has only one person to turn to.
When Sarah's family moves into her Great Aunt Margaret's house, Sarah can't help feeling something is terribly wrong. She tries to believe she's just unhappy about having to spend so much time caring for her disagreeable invalid aunt. Yet she knows there...
| Author | Douglas Evans |
| ISBN | 0439431344 |
why i choose this book because i wonted to read it because i had never read this book in my life.So i wonted to read it,the book looked interesting to read because it looked funny.And the teachers in the book now they made the kids do a lot of homework.But then they are nice to them when the kids are nice to the...
| Author | Jonathon Scott Fuqua |
| ISBN | 0763622907 |
"Darby's first-person narrative is frank and immediate . . . expressing what it's like for an ordinary white kid who suddenly discovers evil — and courage — where she lives." — BOOKLIST
A Book Sense 76 Top Ten Pick
A National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade Book for...
| Author | Betsy Hearne |
| ISBN | 0689863470 |
Eleven-year-old Louise Tolliver lives with her mother and her brother, Willie, in Tollivers' Hollow. Like any brother, Willie gives Louise a hard time, but the trouble really starts when Louise calls him a pig -- and he becomes one.
And that's not all. Louise's father has been missing for seven...
| Author | Marilyn Sachs |
| ISBN | 0140383212 |
Everybody in Fran Ellen’s class knows her name. They know that she sucks her thumb and that she smells bad. But they don’t really know anything important about her.
They don’t know that she lives in two houses. One is with her brothers and sisters and sick mother. There is no father in that house,...
On an ordinary evening, just as he's about to leave for a party, 15-year-old Andy Zadinski receives a phone call from a stranger that changes his life. The caller, Zeke, confesses to the murder of a young woman named Nina Klemmer. Andy immediately calls the police, who shrug it off as a gag or a crank call....
| Author | Alison Hart |
| ISBN | 1561453986 |
In the first book of this engrossing middle-grade trilogy set during the Civil War, a young Kentucky slave dares to pursue his dream of becoming a jockey.
The year is 1864 and twelve-year-old Gabriel hopes to one day become a famous jockey. Although he is a the son of a free black father and a slave mother-making...
| Author | Bennett Madison |
| ISBN | 1595140867 |
It's the beginning of summer and all Lulu wants to do is have perfectly ordinary, non-crime-solving fun with her best friend Daisy, with her only problem being what to do about her friend-turned-boyfriend, Charlie, who has become less fun and more clingy since they started dating. No such luck for Lulu....
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0698119703 |
1968 looks like it'll be a pretty good year for Jaynell Lambert. The town's going to pave the dirt road she lives on, her girly-girl sister, Racine, isn't driving her completely crazy, and Grandpap has just moved in with his new emerald green Cadillac convertible. Jaynell and Grandpap have something...
| Author | Rachel Vail |
| ISBN | 0439087635 |
Rachel Vail has started her book in Morgan's class room during their homework presentations. Morgan has a troubled background. Her father has left her family and her mother is very hard on Morgan. Her family does not have a lot of money which causes her to not have the same things that her friends have....
| Author | Amy Goldman Koss |
| ISBN | 0142401285 |
Cheating on a geography midterm is only the beginning. It seemed simple enough&150they were given the answers from last year's test and they used them. But Sarah and her friends got caught, and what was done without much thought leads to greater and greater consequences. Now they are facing punishment...
Ace: The Very Important Pig
| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0679819312 |
This book is about a young pig called Ace living on a farm with Farmer Tubbs. Ace gets his name from the birth mark on his left hand side which looks like an ace of clubs.
Ace discovers from very young that he is able to understand the Queens English as well as communicating with the other animals living...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0374382514 |
Although Ruby seemed to just appear out of thin air on the steps of the courthouse on the first day of summer in 1944, no one in Way Down Deep, West Virginia, ever worried too much about where the toddler came from. They figured that if Ruby's people were dumb enough to lose something as valuable as a child,...
| Author | David A. Adler |
| ISBN | 0670062952 |
Cam Jansen and her friends are volunteering at a talent show at the local senior center. They're having fun entertaining the guests and enjoying treats donated by Ken's Bakeshop. But during the show someone steals the wedding cake from Ken's truck out front. Can Cam use her photographic memory to solve...
| Author | Patricia H. Rushford |
| ISBN | 1556615590 |
Once again, I was very happy with another mystery featuring amateur sleuth, Jennie McGrady. In particular I appreciated the great set-up for the next book in the series. The ending felt very similar to Nancy Drew in which you are introduced to a new mystery that will be featured in the next installment.
This...
Encyclopedia Brown's Book Of Strange But True Crimes
| Author | Donald J. Sobol |
| ISBN | 0590441485 |
This type of book was very new to me since it doesn't only have one story, but it has lots of different stories. The stories in this book were crimes, that were shortened and simplified. The crime stories that Donald J. Sobol chose aren't just ordinary crimes, but it was strange crimes, just like the title...
| Author | Ian Bone |
| ISBN | 0142403938 |
One bitterly cold afternoon, a handful of customers lingered inside the Family Value hamburger restaurant on Grange Street, their meals finished, their welcome scattered in scraps on the discarded food trays.
At precisely 2:45 P.M., a man stood on one of the small tables near the service...
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 0689864604 |
When Ruby's cousin Flying Duck emigrates from China to live with her, Ruby decides the best thing about Flying Duck is that she is a great new friend. BUT the worst thing about Flying Duck is that now, no one speaks English at home. Plus, there's strange food on the table every night and only chopsticks to...
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0064406822 |
It’s people versus owls in this laugh-out-loud story about one family’s love for a special little owl, from bestselling nature writer and Newbery Medal winner Jean Craighead George!
Borden Watson’s father is out of job, and it’s all the spotted owls’ fault. The birds are endangered,...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0439839831 |
Everything ten year-old Sprig wants, her older sister Dakota already has. Everything Sprig does, Dakota does better. And anytime Sprig complains, Dakota just grins and calls her a baby. It’s enough to make a kid wish her sister would disappear.
But in a year when Sprig’s father is away,...
