Magic Elizabeth
10 best books like Magic Elizabeth (Norma Kassirer): Laura's Luck, Shadow Castle, The Secret Language, The Golden Name Day, Jane-Emily, Octagon Magic, No Flying in the House, The Wednesday Witch, A Candle in Her Room, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
| Author | Marilyn Sachs |
| ISBN | 0595175902 |
We really enjoyed this account of Laura's 8 week stay at a summer camp. Nothing out of the ordinary happens, but we get to see 12 yr old Laura come from the city, get used to the outdoors, trying things outside her comfort zone, make friends and experience nature.
Laura likes reading and finds it...
| Author | Marian Cockrell |
| ISBN | 0595092969 |
In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious red-haired...
| Author | Ursula Nordstrom |
| ISBN | 0064400220 |
At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School. Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl.Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Martha introduces Vicky to pie-beds, midnight feasts...
| Author | Jennie D. Lindquist |
| ISBN | 0064400247 |
I loved this book! It was such a delight to read; happiness exudes from each chapter! I never read this as a child, but I know I would have enjoyed it then too. This is definitely one that appeals to girls and the feminine side with its flowers, dolls, parties, animals, and of course, the name days.
There’s...
| Author | Patricia Clapp |
| ISBN | 0688045928 |
Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago.
Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane’s grandmother’s house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts....
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0765352982 |
The secret of Octagon House When her grandmother gets sick, eleven-year-old Lorrie Mallard is sent to live with her aunt in the U.S. Things were different back home in Canada, and Lorrie is homesick—especially when boys like Jimmy Purvis and Stan Wormiski tease her. One day, Lorrie finds herself...
| Author | Betty Brock |
| ISBN | 0439866650 |
Most little girls have parents to take care of them, but not Annabel Tippens.She has Gloria, a tiny white dog who talks and wears a gold collar. Annabel never thought it was strange that she had Gloria instead of real parents. Until one day a wicked, wicked cat named Belinda comes to tell her the truth --...
| Author | Ruth Chew |
| ISBN | 0786825987 |
I had only vague but happy memories of reading this book as a little girl, remembering the slightly incompetent witch who rode a vacuum cleaner instead of a broom and her talking black cat who helped a little girl with her homework. Rereading this as an adult was a pleasure, though the story is certainly...
| Author | Ruth M. Arthur |
| ISBN | 0689703155 |
Melissa was sure it was the doll, Dido, who brought evil to the family, not once, but again and again. Three generations were haunted by the strange wooden doll. Each time Dido came to light there was disaster and tragedy. What could be done to overcome the power of the doll? This is a book about many things:...
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 1405088567 |
This book helped me through one of the hardest times in my childhood.
Long story, but when we emigrated from Canada to New Zealand, we shifted around a little bit before moving to the Eastern Suburbs of Auckland. At school, once the novelty of having a foreigner in their midst wore off, I just didn't...
| Author | Pamela Sykes |
| ISBN | 0671411349 |
Originally published in Britain as Come Back, Lucy.
The mirror looked ordinary. It had a heavy gold frame and leaned against the wall in the attic. But when Lucy first looked into the mirror, a strange thing happened. Another girl's face appeared beside hers, laughing. Whirling around in surprise...
| Author | Marjorie Filley Stover |
| ISBN | 0590404199 |
Following on from Midnight in the dollhouse this story skips forward in time about 100 years to a time when the doll's house is passed on to a descendant of the original owner. A mystery is solved again and treasure is found.
A 3.5 star book, my daughter said that this was an okay book, but I think...
| Author | Carol Ryrie Brink |
| ISBN | 0020419708 |
Winter Cottage by Carol Ryrie Brink read January 2015
Absolutely loved this little-known gem. Though Winter Cottage collects dust while its more famous sister, Caddie Woodlawn, gets all the fame, WC is an excellent book in its own right and it's a shame that it is out-of-print. My library still...
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer...
| Author | Lynne Reid Banks |
| ISBN | 0380715643 |
The Kings Foolish WishKing Midas loved gold so much he wished everything he touched would turn to gold. But what a terrible curse it became when his wish was granted and everything he touched -- his food, his dog. . . and his beloved daughter -- instantly changed into cold and lifeless matallic objects.
Lynne...
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0439325471 |
Have been reading this set to little kids all year (2013/2014). They have loved them. Quite long chapters, we read approx. one chp. per day, and even the smallest one makes sure he stays within earshot.
Stars reflect how much my kids love love love them, not necessarily how wonderful I think they...
| Author | Frances Browne |
| ISBN | 1599150697 |
Seven fairy tales, set in an interesting framework which relates the adventures of the little girl Snowflower and her magical chair at the court of King Winwealth. When Snow-flower, from her nook in the kitchen, said, "Chair of my grandmother, take me to the highest banquet hall," "instantly the chair...
For country-bred cousins Cecelia Rushton and Katherine Talgarth, something extraordinary is afoot besides the constant whirl of Regency balls - something Young Ladies of Quality rarely come in contact with: magic. Oh, not the mere love spells used by country folk, but real sorcery capable of thwarting...
| Author | Mary Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0064400301 |
I think this is my favorite of the Katie John books just because she is struggling with such an identifiable struggle: growing into a young lady but not wanting to act like everyone else who had turned unrecognizable and boy crazy. I think just hearing me read it might have made my daughters feel better...
| Author | Evelyn Sibley Lampman |
| ISBN | 0689704933 |
2019 Review
Between this book and Howl's Moving Castle, I think I need to go back and re-read all my old favorites. You see, I've been grossly deceived. In my memory the romance plays out in the last chapter and the rest of the book is about pioneer life or something.
Y'all, THE ENTIRE BOOK CENTERS...
