Key to the Treasure

5 best books like Key to the Treasure (Peggy Parish): Across Five Aprils, The Freedom Writers Diary, Up a Road Slowly, That Was Then, This Is Now, Who are You, Calvin Bledsoe?

Across Five Aprils
AuthorIrene Hunt
ISBN0425182789
Do they make kid's books like this sort anymore? Real and real painful. Across Five Aprils was required reading in 6th grade and it was as if the teacher's were saying "Life's a bitch, get used to it."

I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way...
The Freedom Writers Diary
AuthorErin Gruwell
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.

As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long...
Up a Road Slowly
AuthorIrene Hunt
ISBN0425202054
Without a doubt, beyond compare, my favorite book ever. Up a Road Slowly is the book sent to me by my closest aunt the fall after my father died. It came with a note telling me how much she treasured the book and hoped that it would find a place in my heart too. Whether it was because the book came from such an influence...
That Was Then, This Is Now
AuthorS.E. Hinton
ISBN0140389660
Does growing up have to mean growing apart?

Since childhood, Bryon and Mark have been as close as brothers. Now things are changing. Bryon's growing up, spending a lot of time with girls, and thinking seriously about who he wants to be. Mark still just lives for the thrill of the moment. The two...
Who are You, Calvin Bledsoe?
AuthorBrock Clarke
“A wild ride of a book . . . A story in which anything and everything can happen, and mostly does. This is a book of many trips--across oceans, back to the past, and, most profoundly, into the infinite deep space of the human heart. Brock Clarke has given us a wonderful novel that bursts with all the meaty...
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