Dragon's Gate
10 best books like Dragon's Gate (Laurence Yep): The Blue Cat of Castle Town, All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud, Journey Outside, The Moves Make the Man, After the Rain, Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America, Hurry Home, Candy, Black Fox of Lorne, The Horsecatcher, The Avion My Uncle Flew
| Author | Catherine Cate Coblentz |
| ISBN | 0914378058 |
You're probably wondering why this book was awarded the Newbery Honor. It's obviously not very popular at all - less than 100 people have rated it! That should tell you something, right?
Wrong. I thought so, too, until I actually tried it for myself.
This is the story of a blue cat who...
| Author | Armstrong Sperry |
| ISBN | 0879235233 |
I found this title in an used bookstore in the little town of Columbia Falls, Montana, and paid $10 for it thinking it was a non-fiction account of the legendary sailing ship Flying Cloud. My copy is a 1935 edition and includes a very large number of superb woodcut illustrations. Instead of the factual...
| Author | Mary Q. Steele |
| ISBN | 0140305882 |
Grandfather said they were headed for the Better Place, but Dilar suspected they were headed nowhere, simply following the dark underground river blindly. And so one night he leaped onto a shelf of rock and watched the flotilla of the Raft People disappear. And from there he found his way Outside, into...
| Author | Bruce Brooks |
| ISBN | 0064405648 |
Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step with twist to the left, stutter into jumper, blind pass. These are me. The moves make the man. The moves make me.
Jerome foxworthy -- the Jayfox to his friends -- likes to think he can handle anything. He handled growing up without a father....
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0380750252 |
At fifteen, Rachel is a worrier. She worries about whether her family understands her, whether her friends like her, and whether she'll get her first kiss before she turns sixteen. And she worries about whether she can handle having a real boyfriend if he does come along.
But it takes a dying...
I did not read every word. It is very readable, but there was too much history (compared to the Guide as promised in the title) in it for me. The illustrations were great, esp. of the actually tools and gear. Now, I wouldn't necessarily object to all that text of Westward Ho, but too much of it was written in...
| Author | Meindert DeJong |
| ISBN | 0064400255 |
Enjoyed on openlibrary.org.
Didn't feel a lot of depth. Some insights are nice, though. such as the description of Candy learning to play for the first time as a grown dog, how he took it so seriously.
The pictures by Sendak didn't quite reveal his genius, imo, but they are enjoyable....
| Author | Marguerite de Angeli |
| ISBN | 0856860824 |
Vikings & Scotland in the 10th century.
"Now we shall go a-Viking," Harald Redbeard announced, and so it was that Kan and Brus, Harald's twin sons, found themselves on the dragon-prowed Raven of the Wind, its striped sails set for England. But storms, ancient enemies of the sea-faring...
| Author | Mari Sandoz |
| ISBN | 0803291604 |
Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leaving the world of a Cheyenne tribe in the 1830s, she creates a youthful protagonist many readers will recognize in themselves. Young Elk is expected to be...
| Author | Cyrus Fisher |
| ISBN | 0802776930 |
As read from OpenLibrary, I found this surprisingly charming.
It's mostly about the boy, John (Jean when he's in France) as he faces the challenges of growing from a pampered boy to a stronger and wiser young man. He's sort of forced to 'man up' in just a few weeks, as he's left to live with his 'oncle'...
| Author | Mabel Louise Robinson |
| ISBN | 0394909860 |
Born and raised on Bright Island off the Maine coast, Thankful Curtis is more like her sea captain grandfather than any of her older brothers are. Nothing suits her better than sailing and helping her father with the farm. But when her dreaded sisters-in-law suggest that Thankful get some proper schooling...
Prolific children's author Kathryn Lasky tells the story of sugaring season - that "time between the seasons... when winter seems tired and spring is only a hoped for thing" - in this beautifully-written work of picture-book non-fiction. Her lyrical but informative text is paired with her husband...
I guess I'm not a Caudill fan across the board. It wasn't like this was terrible; it just wasn't terribly good either. The family relationships weren't sweet like I assumed they would be since several of her other books score nicely on that point. And it was just kind of boring ...
In 1780, Stephanie...
| Author | James Cloyd Bowman |
| ISBN | 1590172248 |
“Pecos Bill had the strangest and most exciting experience any boy ever had. He became a member of a pack of wild Coyotes, and until he was a grown man, believed that his name was Cropear, and that he was a full-blooded Coyote. Later he discovered that he was a human being and very shortly thereafter became...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0152387420 |
I read this book of creation stories and cosmogonies from around the world out-loud to my 8-year-old daughter to try and balance out the Christian stories that she is deluged by in American culture. Many children have no idea that predominant western religions did not develop in a vacuum, but are threads...
| Author | Mary Stolz |
| ISBN | 0064400093 |
A poor family finds that yet again their Dad has lost his job. Dad dreams of being an artist and borrows a corner of his friends studio, where he can be a Sunday painter and paint a portrait of his employer. Mr Davis finds it hard to keep a job he hates, Mrs Davis works and has to leave the youngest with someone...
Russell Freedman’s books are just fantastic. In each one, he focuses in on an area of history that fascinates him, connects the dots into a cohesive narrative that tells a story with a beginning, middle and end, and then enriches the verbal with visuals that match up perfectly, usually from primary...
| Author | Rhoda Blumberg |
| ISBN | 0060086254 |
In 1853, few Japanese people knew that a country called America even existed. For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign or Japanese. The country's people still lived under a feudal...
| Author | Jamie Gilson |
| ISBN | 0688178642 |
The year is 1614. Recently orphaned Lizzy Tinker has lived half of her twelve years in Holland, but she does not feel at home there. Lizzy belongs to a small congregation of religious refugees who have fled England in order to worship as they choose. The Dutch people enjoy a free and easy lifestyle that...
| Author | N.A. Perez |
| ISBN | 0395549795 |
About: The Slopes of War is about a family living in Gettysburg at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. What I think: I love this book. I love all of the main characters, especially Bekah Summerhill and Adam Waite. One of the most interesting things about this book is that it's from multiple people's perspectives....
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0142407615 |
This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of Jean Fritz's award-winning account of her life in China, and to honor this story, it is only fitting that it be added to our prestigious line of Puffin Modern Classics. This fictionalized autobiography tells the heartwarming story of a little girl growing up...
