Escape Into the Night
9 best books like Escape Into the Night (Lois Walfrid Johnson): Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Underground to Canada, Derwood, Inc, Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail: Letters from the Overland Trail, Rose's Story, Courage to Run: A Story Based on the Life of Harriet Tubman, The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
| Author | Betty MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0064401499 |
At last my 8 year old knows why sometimes I refer to him as Harbin Quadrangle! (The infamous slowpoke of the final chapter!)
This book is light on actual Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle appearances, but heavy on the "cures" for some very bad habits, including bullying, gossiping, and being a slowpoke. (If you...
| Author | Joan W. Blos |
| ISBN | 0689829914 |
I, Catherine Cabot Hall, aged 13 years, 6 months, 29 days…do begin this book.
So begins the journal of a girl coming of age in nineteenth-century New Hampshire. Catherine records both the hardships of pioneer life and its many triumphs. Even as she struggles with her mother’s death and...
| Author | Betty MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0064401480 |
Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children. She can cure them of any ailment. Patsy hates baths. Hubert never puts anything away. Allen...
| Author | Barbara Smucker |
| ISBN | 0141306866 |
Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend...
| Author | Jeri Massi |
| ISBN | 0890843236 |
Derwood Inc. by Jeri Massi When Penny Derwood and her seventh-grade class tour a button factory, she accidentally gets involved in a mystery that she and her brother, Jack, are determined to unravel. In their efforts to solve the mystery, they undergo a series of hilarious adventures and at the same...
| Author | Elvira Woodruff |
| ISBN | 0679885587 |
This is a pioneer book written in diary form, inspired by diaries that were actually written by men and women who traveled on the Overton Trail between 1840-1870. The feel is a lot like Laura Ingalls Wilder, except more tragedy is discussed. In this book, Austin Brently's grandfather has left him letters...
| Author | Thomas Kinkade |
| ISBN | 0060543442 |
it wuz awsom its historic fic, & about a grl whse mom is a sufferagist, & fought for womans rites.the mc is named"rose,"and thinks her mom is embarasing,b/cause sufferagists r arested,which is wat hapened to hermom.aftr that,they move&rose makes new frends.also,rose luvs horses.while...
| Author | Wendy Lawton |
| ISBN | 0802440983 |
Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a Maryland plantation in the 1800's. She trusts in God, but her faith is tested at every turn. Should she obey her masters or listen to her conscience?
This story from Harriet's childhood is a record of courage. Even more, it's a story of God's faithfulness,...
The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre
| Author | Gail Carson Levine |
| ISBN | 0062658212 |
In this compelling and thought-provoking fantasy set in the world of The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson Levine introduces a spirited heroine who must overcome deeply rooted prejudice—including her own—to heal her broken country.
Peregrine strives...
