Flambards
10 best books like Flambards (K.M. Peyton): The Dream Peddler, The Changeover, The River at Green Knowe, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, Jill's Gymkhana, The School at the Chalet, Carney's House Party, Betsy's Wedding, Skating Shoes, Theater Shoes
| Author | Martine Fournier Watson |
| ISBN | 0143133179 |
"Astonishing . . . Explores the vast underground legacy of our own desires. This is the must-read book of the year." --Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Child Finder
A richly imagined debut novel about a traveling salesman and the small town he changes forever
If someone offered...
| Author | Margaret Mahy |
| ISBN | 0140365990 |
Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy.
The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn’t the first time she’d been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly...
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0064400980 |
Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are twelve—old enough to do lots of things...even go downtown on their own. There they see their first horseless carriage, discover the joys of the public library, and see a real play at the Opera House. They even find themselves acting in one! Best of all, they help a lonely new friend...
| Author | Ruby Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0340041366 |
The first in the 'Jill' series, reissued in 2009 by Fidra Books with the full, original text, unmodernised and un-Bowdlerised, and the Caney illustrations. This tells the story of how Jill Crewe and her mother move to Chatton in straitened circumstances despite which they are able to buy a cottage with...
| Author | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
| ISBN | 0006925170 |
Well, I've reread about ten of these today (not going to rate them all, thinking of your poor feeds), and I've only got about twenty in the series, which must contain over fifty books...
I tend to divide the copies I've got into two sets. The first set is the beginning of the school, which is a boarding...
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0064408590 |
It is the summer of 1911, and Carney Sibley is back home in her beloved town of Deep Valley, Minnesota. She's looking forward to hosting a month-long house party, with guests including her Vassar college roommate Isobel Porteous and old chum Betsy Ray. With lots of the old Crowd and a new friend--wealthy,...
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0064405443 |
I can never decide which of the Betsy-Tacy books are my favorite. I think that's because I love them all (especially the ones from her highschool years on) equally. They are all so sweet and perfect and I love them. But Betsy's Wedding has a special place in my heart.
Why? Well, y'know. Betsy and...
The beloved Noel Streatfeild classic back in print!
It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnson’s doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her feeling frail and listless. For on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0679854347 |
February 2018: This is, very quietly, one of Streatfield's strongest works. I really, really like this, from that early moment when the American soldier puts the basket "half on Hannah's knees, and half on the skinny knees of the woman with her rights" - or maybe it's even earlier, from the implicit humor...
