No Safe Harbour: The Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn
10 best books like No Safe Harbour: The Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn (Julie Lawson): Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C., Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769, Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829, I Am David, Titanic Crossing, S.O.S. Titanic, Twelve Kinds of Ice, The Unsinkable Walker Bean, Just Grace, Safe as Houses
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C.
Disclaimer: The last time I read this book was in middle school, so my review will be spotty and more nostalgic than any review should be. Oh well.
I avidly read the Royal Diaries series during my middle school years. Like most young girls, I was fascinated with princesses and--maybe not so much...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439076668 |
"I look up now into the oval mirror and see barely a trace of the mud-splattered girl tearing through the woodland on her horse, or the barefoot girl wading at Schonbrunn... I have become what Mama set out for me to be. Majestic. A Dauphine and eventually a Queen." So writes the headstrong 13-year-old Maria...
Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829
| Author | Anna Kirwan |
| ISBN | 0439215986 |
In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess, in a title which includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.
29 MAY
...I had to kiss His Majesty's hand....
| Author | Anne Holm |
| ISBN | 0152051600 |
David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources...
| Author | Barbara Williams |
| ISBN | 0590944649 |
"Titanic Crossing" is a story about a 13 year old boy named Albert Trask, who is going back to America so he and his family can be closer to Alberts grandmother. Mrs. Trask and little Virginia don't want to leave. But when Albert and Virginia's uncle comes to London, they are left with no choice. Albert is...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152013059 |
Irish teenager Barry O’Neill is journeying to New York on the Titanic’s fateful maiden voyage.
He’s homesick and worried about the Flynn boys traveling in steerage, who have threatened to throw him overboard. Little does Barry know that a struggle with the Flynns is the least of the...
| Author | Ellen Bryan Obed |
| ISBN | 0618891293 |
With the first ice—a skim on a sheep pail so thin it breaks when touched—one family’s winter begins in earnest. Next comes ice like panes of glass. And eventually, skating ice! Take a literary skate over field ice and streambed, through sleeping orchards and beyond. The first ice, the second ice,...
| Author | Aaron Renier |
| ISBN | 1596434538 |
Walker Bean never wanted to be a high-seas pirate waging a pitched battle against the forces of the deep. It just worked out that way.
Mild, meek, and a little geeky, Walker is always happiest in his grandfather's workshop, messing around with his inventions. But when his beloved grandfather...
| Author | Charise Mericle Harper |
| ISBN | 0618646426 |
Grace loves cats. She also loves taking pictures of cats and drawing Not-So Super comics. She doesn’t like Sammy Stringer, a boy in her class. She’s got lots and lots of ideas, and when her neighbor’s cat goes missing, Grace does her best to make Mrs. Luther feel less lonely. But...
| Author | Eric Walters |
| ISBN | 0385664427 |
The date is October 15, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Weston, is a typical grade 8 girl. She has a secret crush on a boy in her class and she thinks Elvis Presley is "dreamy." Elizabeth also has a part-time job babysitting an adorable little grade 2 girl named Suzie,...
