On the Blue Comet
10 best books like On the Blue Comet (Rosemary Wells): A Year Down Yonder, The Shakespeare Stealer, Shouting at the Rain, The Bridge Home, The Whipping Boy, The Egypt Game, Father and I Were Ranchers, Woods Runner, One-Handed Catch, Shooting the Moon
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0142300705 |
Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not.
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| Author | Gary L. Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0141305959 |
Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns...
Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful...
| Author | Padma Venkatraman |
| ISBN | 1524738115 |
When Viji and her sister, Rukku, whose developmental disability makes her overly trusting and vulnerable to the perils of the world, run away to live on their own, the situation could not be more grim. Life on the streets of the teeming city of Chennai is harsh for girls considered outcasts, but the sisters...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0060521228 |
A shout comes echoing up the stairway. "Fetch the whipping boy!" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done now?" It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0808553038 |
The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she's not sure they'll have anything in common. But she soon discovers that they both love anything to do with ancient Egypt. When they stumble upon a deserted storage yard behind the A-Z Antiques and Curio Shop, Melanie and April decide it's the perfect spot...
Father and I Were Ranchers
| Author | Ralph Moody |
| ISBN | 0803281781 |
Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes, the pleasures and perils of ranching in the early twentieth century are experienced... auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms all give authentic...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0385738846 |
Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.
But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois...
| Author | Mary Jane Auch |
| ISBN | 0805079009 |
Not even losing his hand can keep Norm from trying out for the baseball team
What would life be like with only one hand? That's exactly what eleven-year-old Norm finds out when he loses his left hand in an accident at his family's store. It's July 4, 1946. World War II has ended, and life is getting...
| Author | Frances O'Roark Dowell |
| ISBN | 1416926909 |
JAMIE THINKS HER FATHER CAN DO ANYTHING....UNTIL THE ONE TIME HE CAN DO NOTHING.
When twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter's brother joins the Army and is sent to Vietnam, Jamie is plum thrilled. She can't wait to get letters from the front lines describing the excitement of real-life combat: the...
| Author | Jill Mansell |
| ISBN | 0747261326 |
Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness
Suzy fell for Harry the moment she showed him her husband's sperm sample. It didn't really belong to her husband, though, because she wasn't married. It wasn't a sperm sample...
