Family Sabbatical
8 best books like Family Sabbatical (Carol Ryrie Brink): Masha, Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays, Time at the Top, Meet Molly: An American Girl, Molly's Surprise: A Christmas Story, Molly Saves the Day: A Summer Story, Brave Emily, Katherine's Marriage
| Author | Mara Kay |
| ISBN | 0688416063 |
SET IN RUSSIA over 150 years ago, this book follows Masha through her 9 years at Smolni, an elite girls boarding school - years during which the shy, protected child grows to be a young woman about to face a challenging future. Mara Kay has evoked the sheltered world of Smolni with authenticity and has provided...
| Author | Bill Holm |
| ISBN | 1571312501 |
Arranged by letter of the alphabet, with at least one entry per letter, these short pieces capture the variety of daily life in contemporary China. Writing about traditions that endure in rural areas as well as the bureaucratic absurdities an American teacher and traveler experiences in the 1980s,...
| Author | Edward Ormondroyd |
| ISBN | 1930900198 |
It's strange enough when Susan Shaw disappears without a trace on a wintry March afternoon. It's stranger still when her uninformative note is found in the hallway of her apartment building, along with a black cat that no one has seen before. And it's strangest of all when she suddenly appears again,...
Meet Molly: An American Girl
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295817 |
I used to love these books when I was a kid. Felicity was my particular favorite, though, with Molly ranking somewhere behind Samantha and Addy, and possibly also behind Kirsten. Sorry, Molly. But at any rate, I think I can safely point to the American Girls series as being the catalyst for my lifelong...
Molly's Surprise: A Christmas Story
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295876 |
Molly is a lively, lovable schemer and dreamer growing up in 1944. Her stories describe her life on the home front during World War Two. Molly doesn't like many of the changes the war has brought, and she especially misses her father, who is away caring for wounded soldiers. But Molly learns the importance...
Molly Saves the Day: A Summer Story
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295930 |
The book was about a girl,her name was Molly.Molly and the school were going on a camping trip.As soon as Molly arrives at the camp she loved the camp.She and her friends Linda and Susan spend two weeks of singing and hiking and canoeing.They all had so much fun together.One day the teacher said that she...
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 1593692102 |
Spring 1944: Emily Bennett, a young English girl, has come to stay with Molly McIntire's family to escape the bombing of London. Emily's parents sent her off with the reminder to be "a brave soldier for England," but Emily doesn't see how she can do that. Molly tries hard to make sweet, shy Emily feel at...
| Author | D.E. Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0006132847 |
Readers who discovered Katherine Wentworth and Alec MacLaren in Katherine Wentworth will be delighted to learn more about this lively pair. Those who are meeting them for the first time will find that this romantic story stands independently and beautifully on its own.
The story opens with...
