Honestly, Katie John!
10 best books like Honestly, Katie John! (Mary Calhoun): All-of-a-Kind Family, All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, More All-of-a-Kind Family, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family, They Loved to Laugh, Kristy's Great Idea, The Weird Sisters, The Truth About Stacey, Dawn and the Impossible Three
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0385732953 |
It's the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters - Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie. Follow along as they search for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front parlor, or explore the basement warehouse of Papa's peddler's...
All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0929093216 |
Sydney Taylor grew up among immigrant families on New York City's Lower East Side prior to World War I and wrote the All-of-a-Kind Family series for her daughter. This sequel finds talented Ella, mischievous Henny, studious Sarah, dreamy Charlotte, and little Gertie helping Mama with their new baby...
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0929093100 |
In the third book of Sydney Taylor's classic children's series, Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew. Thus continues the tale of a Jewish family of five sisters-Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie-and little brother, Charlie, living at the turn of the century in...
All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0929093097 |
From the hilarious opening chapter to the triumphant final one, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown draws the reader in, involving her once again in the lives of the eponymous All-of-a-Kind Family (surname: unknown). Having now moved to the leafier Bronx, the family are just beginning to find their way around,...
Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0929093054 |
World War I has ended, and Ella, the oldest of the five sisters, who dreams of singing and dancing in the theater, is discovered by a Broadway talent scout. It seems that she will have her chance at a theatrical career after all, starting in vaudeville. But her thoughts are also on Jules, just returned from...
| Author | Kathryn Worth |
| ISBN | 1883937167 |
Tears and laughter alternate in this novel of a young girl's growth to womanhood in the 1830s.
16-year-old orphan Martitia Howland has been transplanted into a Quaker farm family of five intimidating sons and one disapproving daughter. As Martitia runs their gauntlet, she suffers their...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590224735 |
Kristy thinks the Baby-sitters Club is a great idea. She and her friends Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne all love taking care of kids. A club will give them the chance to have lots of fun - and make tons of money.
But nobody counted on crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and parents...
| Author | Eleanor Brown |
| ISBN | 0399157220 |
A major new talent tackles the complicated terrain of sisters, the power of books, and the places we decide to call home.
There is no problem that a library card can't solve.
The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590251589 |
The truth about Stacey is that she has diabetes. Nobody knows... except her friends in the Baby-sitters Club.
But even they don't know the real truth about Stacey. Stacey's problem is her parents. They won't admit she has the disease, and they drag her to practically every doctor in America!
Seeing...
Dawn and the Impossible Three
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590251600 |
this is the first dawn book of the series, in which she becomes the regular sitter for the barrett family. buddy, suzi, & marnie are being raised by a single mom who recently went through a pretty acrimonious divorce. the kids seem to be coping well enough, but their mom is struggling to find steady...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590251597 |
Mary Anne has never been a leader of the Baby-sitters Club. She's left that up to Kristy... or Claudia... or Stacey. But now there's a big fight among the four friends, and Mary Anne doesn't have them to depend on anymore.
It's bad enough when she's left alone at the lunch table at school. But when...
| Author | Lenora Mattingly Weber |
| ISBN | 0425014584 |
The introductory book of the Beany Malone series. Mary Fred spends the fifteen dollars that is intended for a new formal to buy her beloved Mr. Chips, a lame horse. Elizabeth's husband, Don, is sent overseas, and a weak and wan Elizabeth arrives at the Malones' with her two-week-old son, Martie. When...
| Author | Lenora Mattingly Weber |
| ISBN | 0963960741 |
Beany, sixteen, is instructed by her father to "look after" the Malone family when he travels to Arizona to convalesce following a case of pneumonia. With protective loyalty, Beany's attempts to shield her family from pain and disappointment by locking up their hearts from potential threats. Mary...
