Journey Home
10 best books like Journey Home (Yoshiko Uchida): The Castle in the Attic, The Hundred Dresses, Henry Huggins, Hansel and Gretel, Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan, Citizen 13660, Government, A Russian Gentleman, I Was a Rat!, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
| Author | Elizabeth Winthrop |
| ISBN | 0440409411 |
One of the classic fantastical adventures of all time!
William has just received the best present of his life—an old, real-looking stone and wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, a moat, and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. It’s the mysterious castle his housekeeper has told...
| Author | Eleanor Estes |
| ISBN | 0152052607 |
Eleanor Estes’s The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred...
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0688213855 |
In the first novel from Newbery Award-winning author Beverly Cleary, boys and girls alike will instantly be charmed by an average boy whose life is turned upside down when he meets a lovable puppy with a nose for mischief.
Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens,...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1935179624 |
This all happened a long time ago, in your grandmother's time, or in her grandfather's. A long time ago. Back then, we all lives on the edge of the great forest.
Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattoti both remember the horror and fascination with which they read the Grimm Brothers' "Hansel and Gretel."...
| Author | Mikiso Hane |
| ISBN | 0520084217 |
In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current...
| Author | Mine Okubo |
| ISBN | 0295993545 |
Mine Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's illustrated memoir of life in relocation centers in California...
In the 1930s B. Traven wrote an epic of the birth of the Mexican revolution in what have become known as the "Jungle Novels." Government is the first of the six novels that comprise the series.
Depicting the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico, the novel tells...
| Author | Sergei Aksakov |
| ISBN | 0192815733 |
At the center of this chronicle of Russian provincial life in the reign of Catherine the Great stands the patriarchal figure of the author's grandfather, Stepan Mikhailovich. A man of great natural dignity, imbued with respect for tradition and love of the land, he is also despotic and virtually illiterate....
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 0440416612 |
“I Was a Rat!” So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it’s true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A victim of “Rodent Delusion”? The hospital nurse says yes. A lucrative fairground freak? He is to Mr. Tapscrew. A champion...
| Author | Ellen Chesler |
| ISBN | 1416540768 |
Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.
Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of...
