Nowhere to Call Home
10 best books like Nowhere to Call Home (Cynthia C. DeFelice): The Loud Silence of Francine Green, The Red Rose Box, Walk Across the Sea, Dave At Night, To Every Thing There Is A Season, How Come the Best Clues Are Always in the Garbage?, Double Trouble Squared, Spying on Miss Muller, Gratefully Yours, Charlotte's Rose
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0618504559 |
Francine Green doesn’t speak up much, and who can blame her? Her parents aren’t interested in her opinions, the nuns at school punish girls who ask too many questions, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities is blacklisting people who express unpopular ideas. There’s safety in silence....
| Author | Brenda Woods |
| ISBN | 0142501514 |
On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt Olivia, Mama's only sister, who lives in Los Angeles. It is a red rose box. Not many people in 1958 Louisiana have seen such a beautiful traveling case, covered with red roses, filled with jewelry, silk bedclothes, expensive...
| Author | Susan Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0689857071 |
By 1886 many of Eliza Jane McCully's neighbors are concerned that the growing immigrant Chinese population is threatening their comfortable way of life. But it is a young Chinese boy named Wah Chung who saves Eliza and her pet goat from being swept into the sea by a deadly wave. This makes Eliza wonder:...
| Author | Gail Carson Levine |
| ISBN | 0439202094 |
This engaging story by the author of Ella Enchanted transports us to 1926 Manhattan, from the teeming immigrant neighborhoods of the lower east side to the artistic Renaissance evolving uptown in Harlem. The sudden death of his father leaves David Caros orphaned and abandoned by his uncaring stepmother,...
To Every Thing There Is A Season
| Author | Leo Dillon |
| ISBN | 0590478877 |
In this exquisite book -- the fortieth picture book the couple has worked on together -- Leo and Diane Dillon's breathtaking paintings accompany verses from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Simple yet profound, the inspiring words and pictures make this the perfect gift choice for birthdays, weddings,...
| Author | Linda Bailey |
| ISBN | 0590303880 |
Someone has stolen nearly a thousand dollars from the Garbage Busters, an environmental group that employs Stevie's mother. Worst of all, they've stolen it right from her house! The Diamond & Kulniki Detective Agency must get right to work. Unfortunately, all of their super sleuthing leads Stevie...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0152241272 |
When their father accepts a new job in England, July, Liberty, and their family find themselves exploring the foggy streets of London. The twins try to discover the source of the voice only they can hear--a voice that needs their help. Using telepathy and their individual talents, the twins uncover...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0449704556 |
Jessie and her best friends in boarding school have always loved their teacher, Miss Müller. Half-German and half-Irish, she's as beautiful as a movie star. But ever since their country, Ireland, went to war with Germany, they don't feel the same way. In fact, the girls now think there's something...
| Author | Jane Buchanan |
| ISBN | 0141303158 |
خیلی قشنگ بود، دوستش داشتم.
فکر میکردم پایان خوشش اذیتم بکنه، اما نکرد. .
| Author | Ann Edwards Cannon |
| ISBN | 0385729669 |
I will carry that baby to Zion,” I shout at them, “just see if I don’t!”
Well! I did it! I have left them all quite speechless.
In 1856, 12-year-old Charlotte and her widowed father are members of a Welsh handcart company on the Mormon Trail, so poor they cannot afford wagons but...
For your eyes only is about two young teenagers who are writing about their personal feelings, family problems, and about the new interest they have for poetry thanks to their new replacement teacher. These two students share a diary.
This book covers the category of A diary, autobiography...
| Author | Samuel Shellabarger |
| ISBN | 1882593626 |
I picked up this book after reading a series of literary novels full of dense prose, subtle metaphors and much-ado-about nothing. I needed an escape. And I was not disappointed, for this novel is the classic tale of the hero who escapes his home in the Old World, makes his fortune in the New World and returns...
Roberto: The Insect Architect
| Author | Nina Laden |
| ISBN | 0811824659 |
Ever since he was a wee mite (a termite, that is), Roberto has wanted to be an architect. Discouraged by his wood-eating family and friends, he decides to follow his dream to the big, bug city. There he meets a slew of not-so-creepy, crawly characters who spark in him the courage to build a community for...
| Author | Maira Kalman |
| ISBN | 0670835455 |
Max Stravinsky, an aspiring poet and a New York City dog, longs to hit it big and move to Paris in this charmingly offbeat picture-book from author/artist Maira Kalman. From his home life with Morris and Ida - a shoe salesman and tango dancer, respectively - to his studio experiences with Bruno, who paints...
| Author | Frances Minters |
| ISBN | 0140561269 |
A lively new twist on an old familiar fairy tale
Readers young and old will enjoy this fresh look at the age-old tale in which an urban-dwelling Cinder-Elly used the help of a trash can, a copy machine, and even a glass sneaker to find her Prince Charming. With a jazzily rhthmic, rhyming text and...
| Author | Rosemary Wells |
| ISBN | 0140567429 |
Timothy is very excited about starting school--until he meets Claude. Claude sits next to him, and he wears all the right clothes, says all the right things, and garners all the praise from his teacher and classmates. Timothy is feeling down, until he meets a girl who's having the same problem with her...
| Author | Alexandra Day |
| ISBN | 0374310947 |
Carl is the babysitter every Mother needs!
It just wouldn't be the Halloween season, without visiting Carl and Maddie and sharing in their adventures, at the Masquerade Party, on Halloween night!
This is primarily a picture book; so little ones who cannot read, can still read the...
The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0805010092 |
Oscar Wilde originally wrote these fairy tales for his two sons. The tales span the range of human emotions with a sense of wonder and romance that have ensured them an enduring place in the hearts of children and adults. Inspired by Wilde's stories, Hague has created dramatic, sophisticated illustrations....
| Author | Maria Shriver |
| ISBN | 0316155489 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
Maria Shriver offers a compassionate platform for discussion with this well-written story about disabilities. Influenced and inspired by her parent's involvement with the Special Olympics, as well as her husband's devotion to the cause, Shriver writes a tender...
Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
| Author | Paul B. Janeczko |
| ISBN | 0763629723 |
"The author's upbeat, positive tone is refreshing and his enthusiasm about his topic is contagious." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)
Pssst! Do you know the difference between a code and a cipher? Can you tell a St. Cyr slide from a Cardano grille? Did you know that the discovery...
I've found it!!!
I feel like squealing with joy. Do you know I hunted everywhere for this book? But I couldn't remember who it was by or what it was called. However, I never, ever forgot to story. Need I say it was amazing? I love love, love this book. Avi writes just the kind of YA I like, and I'm very...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0590460528 |
The final handcrafted installment by award-winning author Ann Rinaldi. "Whether they've covered the previous books or not, readers will enjoy this rip-roaring tale of adventure and suspense."-Kirkus
Amanda Videau had no idea what adventures she'd find on the journey North. But she never...
Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway
| Author | Kirkpatrick Hill |
| ISBN | 1584855207 |
Twelve-year-old Minuk is intrigued by the Hoffs, the American missionary family that has moved into her village. Although she has seen white men before, Minuk has never seen a white woman--or a white child. It soon becomes clear that although the Hoffs can speak the Yup'ik language, they don't understand...
