Eidi: The Children of Crow Cove
10 best books like Eidi: The Children of Crow Cove (Bodil Bredsdorff): Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness, The Ever Breath, A Faraway Island, Big Wolf & Little Wolf, Soldier Bear, A Time of Miracles, Garmann's Summer, When I Was a Soldier, An Innocent Soldier, The Shadows of Ghadames
| Author | Nahoko Uehashi |
| ISBN | 0545102952 |
Balsa returns to her native Kanbal to clear the name of Jiguro, her dear mentor, who saved her life when she was six years old. But what should be a visit of truth and reconciliation becomes a fight for her life when she learns that Jiguro had been a member of King Rogsam's personal bodyguard. After Jiguro...
| Author | Julianna Baggott |
| ISBN | 0385737610 |
Twins Truman and Camille have been deserted by their father. Now their mother is leaving them for three weeks with their paternal grandmother Swelda, whom they’ve never met and only know from her disappointing gifts of soap and ChapStick. Things look up when Swelda turns out to be weird but cool. When...
| Author | Annika Thor |
| ISBN | 0385736177 |
Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden.
It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to...
| Author | Nadine Brun-Cosme |
| ISBN | 1592700845 |
A story about how life changes when one comes to understand the meaning of friendship and sharing.
Big Wolf lives alone under a tree at the top of a hill. He is alone, but happy. One day he sees another wolf approaching, a little wolf. Without a word, Little Wolf sits down next to Big Wolf. He stays all...
| Author | Bibi Dumon Tak |
| ISBN | 0802853757 |
Winner of the 2012 Batchelder Award
Based on a real series of events that happened during World War II, Soldier Bear tells the story of an orphaned bear cub adopted by a group of Polish soldiers in Iran. The soldiers raise the bear and eventually enlist him as a soldier to ensure that he stays...
| Author | Anne-Laure Bondoux |
| ISBN | 0385739222 |
Winner of the Batchelder Award--this tale of of exile, sacrifice, hope, and survival is a story of ultimate love.
Blaise Fortune, also known as Koumaïl, loves hearing the story of how he came to live with Gloria in the Republic of Georgia: Gloria was picking peaches in her father’s orchard...
| Author | Stian Hole |
| ISBN | 0802853390 |
This unique, award-winning picture book delves into the mind of a young boy who is afraid of starting school. Summer is nearly over. The old aunts have come to visit, and autumn is in the air. Everything is ready for Garmann's first day of school, but he is still nervous. And he can't believe that he hasn't...
| Author | Valérie Zenatti |
| ISBN | 1599900599 |
What is it like to be a young woman in a war?
At a time when Israel is in the news every day and politics in the Middle East are as complex as ever before, this story of one girl's experience in the Israeli national army is both topical and fascinating. Valerie begins her story as she finishes her exams,...
| Author | Josef Holub |
| ISBN | 0439627710 |
A naive country boy grapples with life in the army during Napoleon's disastrous campaign against Russia.
Adam is a farmhand conscripted by Napoleon's army, which is gathering strength for its campaign against Russia. Sergeant Krauter makes Adam the victim of his most sadistic urges. But...
| Author | Joëlle Stolz |
| ISBN | 0440419492 |
This story about a Muslim girl bound by traditional Islamic customs but who yearns for something more explores women’s rights, freedom, religion, and identity.
In the Libyan city of Ghadames, Malika watches her merchant father depart on one of his caravan expeditions. She too yearns...
| Author | Bea Uusma Schyffert |
| ISBN | 0811840077 |
Do you know the story of Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut who went all the way to the moon but never walked on its surface? Instead, he orbited the moon 14 times, surrounded by 701 power switches and 20 pounds of checklists. Reminiscent of a scrapbook, this extraordinary book chronicles what Michael...
| Author | Toshi Maruki |
| ISBN | 0688012973 |
I started out reading this book for my children's lit class at PSU. What first drew me to this book was the fact that it was about Hiroshima, and me being half japanese, I wanted to see what they wrote down. I mean other than japanese, japanese americans, and history enthusiast who knows a lot about what actually...
| Author | Ching Yeung Russell |
| ISBN | 1600604234 |
Growing up in Hong Kong in the 1960s, Yeung Ying is tired of hearing how important boys are. After all, she can write letters and recite poems as well as even better than her boy cousins.
Luckily, Yeung Ying's mother thinks "girls and boys are just the same." Despite protests from her husband s...
If you do it right, it can be a life. The hothouse, the guys, the glory. But just like that, it can all go up in smoke. In the beginning it was strange, ya know, because of all that we had lost. But there was something about it that felt so good and so right, too: "I'm so proud of you, Russ." "We'll always be here...
| Author | Arthur Dorros |
| ISBN | 0060581565 |
In Papá and Me, a young boy and his papa may speak both Spanish and English, but the most important language they speak is the language of love. In this beautiful bilingual picture book, Arthur Dorros portrays the close bond between father and son, with lush paintings by Rudy Gutierrez. Fans of Abuelo;...
| Author | Arthur Slade |
| ISBN | 1443416703 |
A ruthless queen. An ancient god. One brave girl and an impossible choice.
For over a thousand years, Queen Servilia has ruled the world of Illium. Using magical red dust mined from the earth, she has enslaved her subjects, enforcing uniformity and sameness to maintain her absolute power.
But...
| Author | Lars-Henrik Olsen |
| ISBN | 8763804791 |
"Ved siden af havde Tor indledt en kamp med Midgårdsormen. Den uhyggelige drage piskede med sin hale, og gift og ild stod ud af dragens næsebor som fra en flammekaster."
Erik med tilnavnet Menneskesøn er på rejse i Island, da et jordskælv tager fat, og en kæmpemæssig flodbølge kommer...
Pearl's older sister Lexie is in eighth grade and has a boyfriend. Pearl's only boyfriend is the family's crabby cat, Bitey. Lexie is popular. Pearl is not, mostly because of the embarrassing Three Bad Things that happened in school and which no one has forgotten. Everything Pearl does seems to drive...
| Author | Ole Lund Kirkegaard |
| ISBN | 3789118249 |
Not suited for children.
Though I laughed at some points of the book I think it's missing its purpose that it has for children. The book tells us about Ivan who is being bullied and called "Gummi Tarzan"(Rubber Tarzan) because he has no muscles. One day he gets his revenge, then, the next day everything...
| Author | Eric Walters |
| ISBN | 0143312553 |
It’s been months since brothers Jack and George’s adventure in Camp 30, where they’d been sent to spy on the high-ranking German prisoners of war. Now they’re hoping that life will return to normal. But they’re proved terribly wrong when their mother is kidnapped by three thugs who seem to...
| Author | William Heinesen |
| ISBN | 1903517508 |
Not sure if something was lost in translation but this one read a bit flat.
The book traces a number of characters living in the 1920s, probably in the Faroe Islands. In the main the men are dreamers, musicians, poets and drunkards. There are a couple of rogues and cads and plenty of hard luck stories....
Löwensköldska ringen / Charlotte Löwensköld
| Author | Selma Lagerlöf |
| ISBN | 9100107433 |
Selma Lagerlöf does not disappoint! In "the Löwensköld ring" we have a proper ghost story of an old captain haunting an old mansion after a ring is stolen from his grave. In "Charlotte Löwensköld" we have an arrogant young man, who drives the love of his life into the arms of another. It is well-written,...
