Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day
8 best books like Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day (Scott O'Dell): I'm Not Scared, Johnny Tremain, The House That Lou Built, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, The Window, Otto of the Silver Hand, Do-Over!: In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments, Dog Diaries
Author | Niccolò Ammaniti |
ISBN | 1400075637 |
In this immensely powerful, lyrical and skillfully narrated novel, set in southern Italy, nine year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he daren’t tell anyone about it. Read an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse today.
The hottest summer of the twentieth century....
Author | Esther Forbes |
ISBN | 0440442508 |
Probably the greatest book ever written, by both man and child, woman and other writing entity, Johnny Tremain tells the story of a young genius who becomes a silversmith and burns the crappin' hell out of his hand. He's always embarrassed by his sort of melty hand and keeps it in his pockets or in his mother's...
Lou Bulosan-Nelson is going to build her dream. She shares a room with her mom in her grandmother's house in San Francisco, and longs for a place of her own where she can escape her lovable but large extended Filipino family. Lou has a talent for woodshop class and creating projects, and plans to build a...
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
Author | Jeanne Birdsall |
ISBN | 0375840907 |
With over one million copies sold, this series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager.
The Penderwick sisters are home on Gardam Street...
Author | Jeanette Ingold |
ISBN | 0152049266 |
Mandy survived the terrible accident that killed her mother, but she was left blind and alone. Now she lives with relatives she doesn't know, attends a new school, and tries to make friends--all the while struggling to function without sight.
Her unpredictable life takes its strangest turn when...
Author | Howard Pyle |
ISBN | 0486217841 |
A rich and engrossing thread of Romance runs through this tale of the motherless son of a valiant robber baron of Medieval Germany. Young Otto, born into a warring household in an age when lawless chiefs were constantly fighting each other or despoiling the caravans of the merchant burghers, is raised...
Do-Over!: In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments
Author | Robin Hemley |
ISBN | 0316020605 |
Robin Hemley's childhood made a wedgie of his memory, leaving him sore and embarrassed for over forty years. He was the most pitiful kindergartner, the least spirited summer camper, and dateless for prom. In fact, there's nary an event from his youth that couldn't use improvement. If only he could do...
Author | James Patterson |
ISBN | 1784759627 |
Cute new book that I'll be adding to our 4th/5th grade school library. It's told from the dog's point of view and is sure to be a hit with my developing readers along with all readers who like a funny story. There wasn't much action the first half of the book, but it got better and the vocabulary is hilarious....