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10 best books like Father's Arcane Daughter (E.L. Konigsburg): Hope Was Here, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Contender, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, A Tangle of Knots, Know What You Believe: Connecting Faith and Truth, The Great Brain, The Snow Goose, You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, The Wise Woman and Other Stories

Hope Was Here
AuthorJoan Bauer
ISBN0142404241
When Hope and her aunt move to small-town Wisconsin to take over the local diner, Hope's not sure what to expect. But what they find is that the owner, G.T., isn't quite ready to give up yet - in fact, he's decided to run for mayor against a corrupt candidate. And as Hope starts to make her place at the diner,...
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
AuthorJudith Kerr
Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World WarSuppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous...
The Contender
AuthorRobert Lipsyte
ISBN0064471527
This is a sports fiction novel that tells a story of Alfred Brooks, a seventeen-year-old high school drop-out, living in Harlem, finding his way in the world and in boxing. Alfred learns that getting to the top is not as important as how you get there, and that before you can be a champion, you have to be a...
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN0375422730
THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 8

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective.  In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe navigates...
A Tangle of Knots
AuthorLisa Graff
ISBN0399255176
Told in multiple viewpoints, A Tangle of Knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a Talent, eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal Talent for cake baking. But little does she know that fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny...
Know What You Believe: Connecting Faith and Truth
AuthorPaul E. Little
ISBN0781439647
What does the Bible teach about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit?
What do angels, Satan, and demons have to do with reality?
What place should the Bible or a church have in my life?

Perhaps you think you know what others are telling you to believe, but deep down inside you wonder, "What is...
The Great Brain
AuthorJohn D. Fitzgerald
ISBN0142400580
The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving the kids at school, or helping out Peg-leg Andy, or Basil, the...
The Snow Goose
AuthorPaul Gallico
ISBN0140299521
Lyrical and touching tale set in WWII, with the climax taking place during Dunkirk. While there's a danger here of crossing over into sentimentality, for me this lovely tale transformed what could have been pat sentiments into something very heartfelt and noble. It's the kind of tale children will...
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0606168486
I checked this out from the library thinking it would be one of Jean Fritz's picture books such as Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?--which I love! It actually ended up being a 76 page biography (with a few illustrations) but was still wonderfully lively, sensitive and humorous--not to mention...
The Wise Woman and Other Stories
AuthorGeorge MacDonald
ISBN0802818609
The title story of this collection is exactly what you would expect of a fairy tale written by a minister and subtitled 'a parable', which is to say it's not particularly fantastical, and feels a great deal like reading a sermon. Condescending and blandly didactic--MacDonald never lets an image or symbol...
Children of the River
AuthorLinda Crew
ISBN0440210224
Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.

Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian...
The Wave
AuthorTodd Strasser
ISBN0440993717
The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.

The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system...
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
AuthorRobert Cwiklik
ISBN0812039211
I didn't care much for this biography of Albert Einstein. Oh, it presented the facts of his life well enough. It also did a good job of explaining Einstein's theories and showing why they were so revolutionary. What turned me off was Mr. Cwiklik's style of presenting Einstein's life. He didn't engage...
The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope
AuthorDavid Kherdian
I found this a fascinating read. It was the perfect follow-up to the novel “Sandcastle Girls” by Bohjalian. I was lucky to be studying some of my shelves and rediscovered this gem at precisely the right moment! The author writes about his mother’s life in Turkey in the early 1900s and centers on...
Parallel Journeys
AuthorEleanor H. Ayer
ISBN0689832362
She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their pareallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the...
China's Long March
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0399215123
I don't know whether I have a mild dislike or a raging hate for this book.

In general, I love Jean Fritz's work - how she makes her subjects come to life, how she embodies them in her writing. However, I've always had a slight trouble with them: they portray her subjects in an overwhelmingly favourable...
God spoke Tibetan; the epic story of the men who gave the Bible to Tibet, the forbidden land
AuthorAllan Maberly
ISBN0890810966
This is the true story of the men who gave the Bible to the people of remote, forbidden Tibet in the language of the Tibetans.

Starting with the sudden death of a Dali Lama in the thousand-room palace of Lahasa, the story moves into Kashmir as a government official accused of murder escapes for...
Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist
AuthorJohn B. Severance
ISBN0395698537
My daughter and I finished reading aloud this children's biography called Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist. This is an invitingly short book on Winston Churchill's life. For the life of me, I can't figure out the low rating this book received on Goodreads. The book starts with Churchill's...
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