Katherine: Heart of Freedom

10 best books like Katherine: Heart of Freedom (Cameron Dokey): The Boxcar Children, Frindle, Horton Hears a Who!, Amelia Bedelia, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Time Enough for Drums, Snow: A Retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Lord of Ice, Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood

The Boxcar Children

Author	Gertrude Chandler Warner
ISBN	0807508527

I read this book as a child and oh, did I ever cherish it. I'm a detail-oriented person, and this book speaks to the super organized control freak in me. Warner weaves so many details into the lives of the Boxcar children that, as a young'un, I found myself mentally picturing their home in exquisite detail....

Frindle

Author	Andrew Clements
ISBN	0689818769

From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.

Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty...

Horton Hears a Who!

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0679800034

In the fifties, my Mom was head librarian for our small-town library (politically, we were termed a Police Village, whatever that meant).

So we kids got our literacy skills off and running when she used to catalogue books in our kitchen.

Especially since City View was in the middle...

Amelia Bedelia

Author	Peggy Parish
ISBN	0064441555

Once upon a school day, I think when I was in second grade (so this would have been pre-1980, I believe), we went on our bi-weekly library outing. The librarian had us sit in front of her in the storytime area and whipped this book out. She read it to us.
That may have been when I realized my love for wordplay.
I...

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Author	Bill Martin Jr.
ISBN	0805047905

Subtexts: perspective, surveillance, paranoia!

I had to read this aloud maybe a hundred nights in a row before I noticed what the text was plainly saying: everyone thinks they are being watched! And ironically, they are the ones doing the watching! From the titular brown bear who is certain...

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Author	Patricia MacLachlan
ISBN	0618062416

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.

Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes...

Time Enough for Drums

Author	Ann Rinaldi
ISBN	0816712697

This was an excellent read.

Yes, I didn't 100%, completely approve of the romance here--but you know what? In the end, that hardly MATTERED. Because, as with all Ann Rinaldi books . . . this is about so much more than just romance. This is why she's my favorite historical fiction author. She takes...

Snow: A Retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Author	Tracy Lynn
ISBN	1416940154

"ONCE UPON A TIME"
IS TIMELESS

The Duchess Jessica's childhood began with a tragedy: her mother's death. Her father, heartbroken at the loss of his beloved wife, could not bear to raise the child. Largely ignored, Jessica spent the first eleven years of her life running free on the family...

Lord of Ice

Author	Gaelen Foley
ISBN	0345490673

Celebrated as an extraordinary new talent in romance, Gaelen Foley astounds readers with her vibrant stories of passion and adventure. Now, hot on the heels of her daring "Lord of Fire," she spins the powerful tale of a hero tempted by the one woman he is forbidden to love...

Damien Knight, the...

Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood

Author	Suzanne Finstad
ISBN	0609809571

Natalie Wood was always a star; her mother made sure this was true. A superstitious Russian immigrant who claimed to be royalty, Maria had been told by a gypsy, long before little Natasha Zakharenko's birth, that her second child would be famous throughout the world. When the beautiful child with the...