Leyla: The Black Tulip
10 best books like Leyla: The Black Tulip (Alev Lytle Croutier): Shadow Spinner, Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, The Singer of All Songs, Salamandastron, Pictures of Hollis Woods, The Cats in the Doll Shop, The Waterless Sea, Trouble at Fort Lapointe, Shadows in the Glasshouse, Under Copp's Hill
| Author | Susan Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0689830513 |
Originally reviewed on my blog, Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing.
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher is set in Ancient Persia and it is a retelling of 1001 Arabian Nights. The original tale is the story of Shaharazad, the young woman who tells stories each night to the Sultan, ending before...
| Author | Barbara Cohen |
| ISBN | 0688135633 |
In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different. Buran cannot—Buran will not—sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There,...
| Author | Kate Constable |
| ISBN | 0439554799 |
Calwyn has never been beyond the high ice-wall that guards the sisters of Antaris from the world of Tremaris. She knows only the rounds of her life as a novice ice priestess, tending her bees, singing her ice chantments, and dreaming.
But then Calwyn befriends Darrow, a mysterious Outlander...
| Author | Brian Jacques |
| ISBN | 0142501522 |
The inhabitants of Redwall relax in the haze of summer-but as they do, the neighboring stronghold of Salamandastron lies besieged by the evil weasel army of Ferhago the Assassin. Worse still, Mara, beloved daughter of Urthstripe, Badger Lord of the Fire Mountain, is in terrible danger. Then a lightning...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0439692393 |
When I finished reading this book I actually gave a little yell of happiness. I knew there was a good reason why I wanted to re-read this book. I had read it a couple years back and wanted to know for sure why I had liked it so much the first time around.
The book touches on what is most important in life...
| Author | Yona Zeldis McDonough |
| ISBN | 0670012793 |
When Anna spots a cat in the yard behind her parents' doll shop, she is excited. Then she realizes the cat is about to have kittens--even better! And Anna has something else to look forward to: her cousin Tania is coming from Russia to stay with Anna's family. Anna already has two sisters, but she and Tania...
| Author | Kate Constable |
| ISBN | 0439554810 |
The sequel to the critically aclaimed THE SINGER OF ALL SONGS draws readers even deeper into the magical world of Tremaris--and presents a temptation that Calwyn may not be able to overcome...
The second novel in the captivating Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy follows Calwyn and her friends to the...
| Author | Kathleen Ernst |
| ISBN | 1584850868 |
A 2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee for Best Children's Mystery! Suzette Choudoir has spent each of her twelve summers at La Pointe Island on Lake Superior, where Ojibwe people camp by the French fur-trade fort. It is 1732 and if her papa wins the trappers' competition, the prize will let him stay with...
| Author | Megan McDonald |
| ISBN | 1584850922 |
I thought this book did a good job keeping a lot of history in this fictional story. It was so interesting to learn how important glassblowing was to the early colony of Jamestown, and how some of the events relating to it in the story were actually true. I don’t even really remember learning about indentured...
| Author | Katherine Ayres |
| ISBN | 1584850884 |
The American Girl History Mysteries helped to make me who I am today. These books (along with the Magic Tree House series) instilled in me a deep curiosity about how people lived in different historical time periods - they're the reason I majored in history in college, and why I work in the field that I do...
Don't Wait Up: Confessions of a Stay-at-Work Mom
| Author | Liz Astrof |
| ISBN | 1982106956 |
For fans of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and I Heart My Little A-Holes comes a candid and hilarious collection of essays on motherhood from the award-winning television comedy writer and producer of 2 Broke Girls and The King of Queens, who swears she loves her kids—when she’s not hiding...
