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10 best books like Ida Early Comes over the Mountain (Robert Burch): Peppermints in the Parlor, Once On This Island, Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy, Jason's Gold, The Wretched Stone, The Half-a-Moon Inn, Nothing to Fear, Lupita Mañana, The Story of Eli Whitney, Molly Bannaky

Peppermints in the Parlor
AuthorBarbara Brooks Wallace
ISBN0689874170
Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall...She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well. But this time things are different. Her aunt's once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper late...
Once On This Island
AuthorGloria Whelan
ISBN0064406199
When war erupts between England and America in 1812, it brings change and uncertainty—even to Michigan's remote Mackinac Island. For young Mary O'Shea, the hardest change is the departure of her father, who leaves Mackinac to join the American Army. With her sister and brother, Mary must tend the...
Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy
AuthorRhoda Blumberg
Any person who leaves the country to go to another and later returns will be put to death. This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help support his family, was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland, he was heartbroken to...
Jason's Gold
AuthorWill Hobbs
ISBN0380729148
"Gold!" Jason shouted at the top of his lungs. "Read all about it! Gold discovered in Alaska!"

Within hours of hearing the thrilling news, fifteen-year-old Jason Hawthorn jumps a train for Seattle, stow away on a ship bound for the goldfields, and joins thousands of fellow prospectors attempting...
The Wretched Stone
AuthorChris Van Allsburg
ISBN0395533074
The Wretched Stone is an interesting, somewhat spooky picture book. It is narrated by a sailor via his personal diary. He and his crew are sailing in the ocean, and they come across an uncharted island. This island bears no fruit, no drinkable water, and no life whatsoever, but they do find a curious, glowing...
The Half-a-Moon Inn
AuthorPaul Fleischman
ISBN0064403645
Aaron has never left alone before. He is mute, and depends on his mother for everything. But tomorrow Aaron will be twelve years old, old enough to stay home by himself while his mother goes to town. Everything will be fine, as long as he stays close to the house. And if there's trouble, Aaron can write what...
Nothing to Fear
AuthorJackie French Koller
ISBN0152575820
Thirteen-year-old Danny and his family are struggling to make ends meet in New York during the Great Depression. His father leaves to search for work, and Danny and his mother do what they can to survive. With his mother pregnant and unable to help, Danny is forced to beg for food. Through it all, they retain...
Lupita Mañana
AuthorPatricia Beatty
ISBN0380732475
Crossing over the border is a dangerous business...

...But Lupita must cross from Mexico to America. After her father dies in a fishing boat accident in the seas near their small Mexican village, Lupita's family is left in poverty. Lupita and her big brother, Salvador, must smuggle themselves...
The Story of Eli Whitney
AuthorJean Lee Latham
ISBN1887840427
I read this non-fiction biography aloud to my children.

I have to admit that I had never heard of Eli Whitney before I picked up this book! His invention, the "cotton 'gin" built in 1793, was the first of its kind to separate the seeds from the cotton bolls. Until that time, cotton was not a popular...
Molly Bannaky
AuthorAlice McGill
On a cold gray morning in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool tugging at the udder of an obstinate cow. When she spilled the milk, she was brought before the court for stealing. Because she could read, Molly escaped the typicalpunishment of death on the gallows. At the age of seventeen, the English dairymaid...
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein
AuthorDon Brown
ISBN0618492984
When he was born in 1879, Albert was a peculiarly fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, frustrated his teachers, and had few friends. But Albert’s strange childhood also included his brilliant capacity for puzzles and problem solving: the mystery...
Richard Wright and the Library Card
AuthorWilliam Miller
ISBN1880000881
As a young black man in the segregated South of the 1920s, Wright was hungry to explore new worlds through books, but was forbidden from borrowing them from the library. This touching account tells of his love of reading, and how his unwavering perseverance, along with the help of a co-worker, came together...
The Children on the Top Floor
AuthorNoel Streatfeild
ISBN0440412242
The bones of this book are familiar Streatfield formula, but the premise is delightful. You have the talented diva, the young, serious child, the unruly boy, the mothering nanny, the young and wise governess... And then you have a famous, single TV personality who announces on Christmas Eve how jealous...
Francie
AuthorKaren English
ISBN0374424594
A distinctive new voice in children's fiction

Francie lives with her mother and younger brother, Prez, in rural Alabama, where all three work and wait. Francie's father is trying to get settled in Chicago so he can move his family up North.

Unfortunately, he's made promises he hasn't...
Soup
AuthorRobert Newton Peck
ISBN0394927001
When it came to getting the two of us in trouble, Soup was a regular genius....Soup was my best pal. His real and righteous name was Luther Wesley Vinson, but nobody called him Luther. He didn't like it. I called him Luther just once, which promoted Soup to break me of a very bad habit before it really got formed....
When the Soldiers Were Gone
AuthorVera W. Propp
ISBN0698118812
I rated this a book a 5. Why? you may ask well, it's about this boy named Henk and he was Jewish so he was hidden in a farm when the Nazi soldiers came. He was living with some family he knew and loved until this man and women came to get him and told him they were there real parents, Henk was so confused. Then Henk...
Gratefully Yours
AuthorJane Buchanan
ISBN0141303158
خیلی قشنگ بود، دوستش داشتم.
فکر می‌کردم پایان خوشش اذیتم بکنه، اما نکرد. .
The Little Riders
AuthorMargaretha Shemin
ISBN0688124992
"Take care of the little riders," says Johanna's father to the eleven-year-old when he leaves her with his parents for an extended vacation in their Dutch village. And Johanna does. She loves the twelve metal figures on horseback who ride forth each hour from the clock on the ancient church tower. She...
You Wish
AuthorJason Lethcoe
ISBN0448444968
On his eleventh birthday, sad, orphaned Benjamin Bartholomew Piff accidentally adheres to all of the wishing rules—and, in wishing for the mother lode of limitless wishes, he unknowingly sets into a motion a chain of events that threatens to disrupt the balance between the magical realm of wishes...
Me, All Alone, at the End of the World
AuthorM.T. Anderson
ISBN0763615862
From the celebrated picture-book team of M. T. Anderson and Kevin Hawkes comes a wistful, wondrous ode to the natural pleasures of peace and solitude.


The boy lives alone at the End of the World, hunting treasure with old maps, finding fossils, whistling tunes, playing ball by the drop....
The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam
AuthorHuynh Quang Nhuong
ISBN0064401839
An ALA Notable Children’s Book and a Booklist Editors’ Choice, about one young man’s memories of the land he called home.

The land I love was lost to me forever.

Huynh Quang Nhuong grew up in the highlands of Vietnam, next to the jungle teeming with wildlife. Encounters with tigers,...
Princess From Another Planet
AuthorMindy Schanback
Gabriella Castellon Period#3 247 pages
This book is about a teenage girl named Gracie that is very annoyed at her mother because her mother believes that she is the queen of a planet called Pannadeau. Now she believes that 4 aliens from Pannadeau called Maluxziads are coming to capture her and her...
A Lion to Guard Us
AuthorClyde Robert Bulla
ISBN0064403335
The inspiring classic that The New Yorker called "an exciting tale [with] top-notch writing," about one girl facing harsh conditions and huge responsibility as she brings her family to the American colonies. 

Featuring a heroine with faith, courage, and a great deal of grit, this...
Encounter
AuthorJane Yolen
When Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, what he discovered were the Taino Indians. Told from a young Taino boy’s point of view, this is a story of how the boy tried to warn his people against welcoming the strangers, who seemed more interested in golden ornaments than...
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