Return to Gone-Away
10 best books like Return to Gone-Away (Elizabeth Enright): Magic or Not?, The River at Green Knowe, The Pink Motel, The House of Arden, Linnets and Valerians, Henry Reed's Babysitting Service, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, The Best-Loved Doll, The Swing in the Summerhouse, The Moffat Museum
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152511601 |
The magic begins when Laura and her family--brothers James, baby Deborah, and her parents--move to a country house in Connecticut. There is a well in the yard, and Laura is the kind of girl who believes in making wishes.
Her first wish comes true, and this sets off a round of adventures for Laura,...
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
The moment Kirby and Bitsy arrive with their parents at their newly inherited motel in Florida, they know it's an unusual place. First of all, it's pink. Not just regular pink, but pink, pink, PINK!
Then there's the roster of regular guests: an artist from Greenwich Village, a magician from...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 1590172027 |
The famous Arden family treasure has been missing for generations, and the last members of the Arden line, Edred, Elfrida, and their Aunt Edith, have nothing to their names but the crumbling castle they live in. Just before his tenth birthday, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden; he also learns that...
| Author | Elizabeth Goudge |
| ISBN | 0142300268 |
The four Linnet children: Nan, Robert, Timothy and Betsy are sent to live with their strict grandmother while their father travels to Egypt. Locked away in separate rooms as punishment by their ruthless grandmother, the Linnets feel at once that their new life is unbearable—and decide to make their...
| Author | Keith Robertson |
| ISBN | 0140341463 |
Henry Reed has another sure-fire money-making plan--but the kids of Grover's Corner have plans of their own
An intelligent person like Henry should have no problem riding herd on the town's toddlers. But Henry's never tangled with such monsters as daredevil Danny, whose stunts keep Henry...
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 | Rebecca Caudill |
| ISBN | 0805054677 |
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...
| Author | Jane Langton |
| ISBN | 0064401243 |
When Prince Krishna is called away, he leaves behind some strict instructions for the Hall children about one of the openings in the mysterious summerhouse: Keep Out! As Eddy and Eleanor swing through each of the other openings, they refuse to break the rule, even as their temptation grows. But when...
| Author | Eleanor Estes |
| ISBN | 0152025537 |
There has never been a museum in Cranbury...until now.
Among its treasures are the first bike each of the Moffat kids rode, stardust from a meteor that fell to earth, a beautiful painting made by Sylvie, and-most spectacularly-Rufus, the Waxworks Boy, who is as funny as he is waxy. The museum is so...
The beloved Noel Streatfeild classic back in print!
It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnson’s doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her feeling frail and listless. For on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up...
