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10 best books like Midnight in the Dollhouse (Marjorie Filley Stover): Peppermints in the Parlor, The Against Taffy Sinclair Club, Libby on Wednesday, Magic Elizabeth, The Best-Loved Doll, Stonewords: A Ghost Story, Behind the Attic Wall, Good-Bye Pink Pig, Ghosts Beneath Our Feet, Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library!

Peppermints in the Parlor
AuthorBarbara Brooks Wallace
ISBN0689874170
Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall...She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well. But this time things are different. Her aunt's once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper late...
The Against Taffy Sinclair Club
AuthorBetsy Haynes
ISBN0553154133
Betsy Haynes treads on the heels of Judy Blume and Paula Danziger for this one. Jana Morgan a neurotic , over dramatic preteen leads a club against a snooty, beautiful classmate Taffy ( which we’re never quite sure is ever justified. ) When Taffy develops you-know-whats that’s the last straw. The...
Libby on Wednesday
AuthorZilpha Keatley Snyder
ISBN0440803047
Libby is sent to public school to be "socialized" after years of being educated at home."An honest, forthright picture of these classmates-tumed-friends who come to accept their difficulties and to care about each other...an absorbing story, filled with real young people and genuine concerns."--...
Magic Elizabeth
AuthorNorma Kassirer
ISBN0064407489
Eight-year-old Sally faces an entire summer trapped in a creepy old house with no one for company but her spooky Aunt Sarah and a black cat named Shadow. But soon Sally uncovers a mystery about a beautiful old doll in a portrait -- and a little girl who looks just like Sally herself! In search of clues, Sally...
The Best-Loved Doll
AuthorRebecca Caudill
ISBN0805054677
We really enjoyed this simple tale of a little girl choosing a doll to take to a party. The illustrations are beautiful, simple line drawings with a lilac colour wash on alternate pages, they really distracted me from reading the text!

When Betsy gets an invitation to take a doll to a party, she...
Stonewords: A Ghost Story
AuthorPam Conrad
ISBN0064403548
The first time Zoe met Zoe Louise, Zoe was four years old. Zoe Louise was more than 100. From that day on -- living in the same house, separated by a staircase and a century -- Zoe and Zoe Louise have been an important and permanent part of each other's lives.

Now Zoe is older. And although Zoe Louise...
Behind the Attic Wall
AuthorSylvia Cassedy
ISBN0380698439
They were watching...and waiting

At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.

Maggie...
Good-Bye Pink Pig
AuthorC.S. Adler
ISBN0380701758
Ten-year-old Amanda is small, quiet and colorless. She knows that she's a disappointment to her elegant, ambitious mother who focuses all her attention on Amanda's charming older brother, Dale. Her mother is obsessed with getting Dale into an Ivy League college, although Dale protests that neither...
Ghosts Beneath Our Feet
AuthorBetty Ren Wright
ISBN0590434446
Back in the day, Betty Ren Wright was right up there with R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike for YA mysteries. I'd never read any of her books though, I'm not sure why, but when I saw this one in my local thrift store for $0.59, I picked it up.

For as short as it is, and as big as the font is, it took me forever...
Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library!
AuthorEth Clifford
ISBN0808551426
A relentless blizzard, a spooky old mansion, a pair of lost kids...everything is here for an exciting mystery story. With the third Onetree child due to be born any day, Mr. Onetree is driving his other kids—Mary Rose (age ten) and Jo-Beth (seven)—to go stay with their Aunt Madge, when his car runs...
The Little Gymnast
AuthorSheila Haigh
ISBN0590430157
FEBRUARY

as part of my personal reading challenges for 2017, once a month i will be revisiting a favorite book from when i was a little bitty karen and seeing if it holds up to my fond memories and determining if i can still enjoy it as an old and crotchety karen.

fingers crossed.

so:...
The Jellyfish Season
AuthorMary Downing Hahn
ISBN0380716356
I thought becoming a teenager was going to be fun. Instead, the summer I turned thirteen my life turned upside-down. Dad lost his job and we moved into my aunt and uncle's beach house. Sounded great-but not When I had to share a room with my boy-crazy cousin Fay. Fay was having plenty of fun, but I just got...
Land of Hope
AuthorJoan Lowery Nixon
ISBN0440215978
Russian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky hopes desperately that her dream will come true in America. On the difficult ocean journey to the "land of opportunity" she meets two other girls--Kristin Swensen from Sweden and Rose Carney from Ireland. The three quickly become friends as they share their visions...
Agnes Cecilia
AuthorMaria Gripe
ISBN0060222816
This was a very good book


THE SWEDISH WAY

A very good friend of mine lent me this book, back then in 2009.

She told me that she liked a lot this book and I accepted her offer and I get right away to read the novel.

The book was translated to Spanish (that's why I picked...
Cousins
AuthorVirginia Hamilton
ISBN0590454366
The story of eleven-year-old Cammy, who must come to grips with the sudden death of her cousin and rival, Patty Ann. "Another wise, beautifully written book from this well-established master."--Kirkus

Being cousins doesn't mean you'll be friends....

Cammy loves her family --...
Fortune's Bride
AuthorJane Peart
ISBN0310669715
Slowly she turned to face the door just as Graham came through at full stride. At the sight of him a wild kind of joy seized her. Graham halted on the threshold. He drew in his breath sharply, and in spite of himself, his pulse thundered at the sight of the tall, willowy figure. The last time he had seen Avril...
The Trouble with Magic
AuthorRuth Chew
ISBN0590103431
When Barbara and Rick Benton find a wizard named Harrison Peabody in an old bottle, they quickly discover that magic isn't as simple as it looks. But even tricky magic is better than no magic, and soon the Bentons are flying around Prospect Park with a large black umbrella and befriending a sea serpent...
Karen's Roller Skates
AuthorAnn M. Martin
Mom's Thoughts:
The Little Sister series continues with Karen breaking her wrist while she was roller skating. The interaction between Kristy and Karen is endearing and I appreciate that these books are bringing so much joy to my little one. She really likes this book!

Daughter's Thoughts:...
Return from Witch Mountain
AuthorMartin Mellett
ISBN0671819119
Tony and Tia, those daring kids from another world, must protect their supernatural powers from the greedy Letha and her power-hungry scientist friend who want to exploit their mysterious abilities. A rousing tale written by Alexander Key, the author of Escape to Witch Mountain, plunges Tony and...
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