Journey to America
10 best books like Journey to America (Sonia Levitin): In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Catherine, Called Birdy, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Upstairs Room, The Family Under the Bridge, Die kleine Hexe, The Apple and the Arrow, Flight to Freedom:, In Grandma's Attic
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
| Author | Bette Bao Lord |
| ISBN | 0064401758 |
Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn...
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0060739428 |
"Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life."Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man--any rich man, no matter how awful. But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes...
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
| Author | Hugh Lofting |
| ISBN | 0060776005 |
The delightfully eccentric Doctor Dolittle, rendered immortal on screen by the gifted Rex Harrison, has remained a firm favorite with generations of children ever since he made his debut in an earlier novel, The Story of Doctor Dolittle.In his second outing titledThe Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, the...
| Author | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| ISBN | 1934169234 |
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that made a huge impact on the 19th century public, shaping everything from boys' clothing fashions to copyright law. Cedric Errol is a generous, kind, and exemplary middle-class American boy who is suddenly...
In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week - tulips in the spring, roses in the summer - stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de Leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the Germans attacked Holland and marched into the town of Winterswijk where she lived. Annie was ten...
The Family Under the Bridge
| Author | Natalie Savage Carlson |
| ISBN | 0064402509 |
This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his solitary life. Children, he said, were like starlings, and one was better off without them.
But the children who lived under the bridge recognized a true friend when they met one, even if the friend...
- Hello Manny, do you recognize me?
- No, who are you?
- Come on.
- No idea.
- I'm your subconscious.
- Oh... right. It's true, you did look familiar. Well, what've you been doing?
- Thinking about sex, mostly. Let me tell you my latest fantasy. There's--
-...
| Author | Mary Buff |
| ISBN | 0618128093 |
The year is 1291, and Walter is the twelve-year-old son of William Tell, the greatest bowman in the land of Uri. Walter lives happily in the remote heights of the Alpine Mountains, caring for his family’s goat herd and practicing his marksmanship in the hopes of making his father proud. But as the end...
Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign...
| Author | Arleta Richardson |
| ISBN | 0781432685 |
Pieces of Magic
Remember when you were a child—when all the world was new, and the smallest object a thing of wonder? Arleta Richardson remembers: the funny wearable wire contraption hidden in the dusty attic, the century-old schoolchild's slate that belonged to Grandma, an ancient...
