Secrets on 26th Street
10 best books like Secrets on 26th Street (Elizabeth McDavid Jones): Kathleen: The Celtic Knot, Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912, Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136, Turn Homeward, Hannalee, Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941, West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, Cécile: Gates of Gold, Plain Girl, My America: We Are Patriots: Hope's Revolutionary War Diary, Book Two, A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
Kathleen: The Celtic Knot
Life is noisy and hard but full of love for 12-year-old Kathleen Murphy and her family. Kathleen dreams of living with her favorite aunt, Polly, far from her crowded home and the strict nuns at the convent school. She's surprised to find that she has a talent for dancing--and a chance to win the dance competition!...
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
| ISBN | 0590962736 |
Of the Titanic story, I always find it most difficult to get through reading or hearing about the crew who sacrificed their lives. What amazes me most is that the band selflessly played through the entire ordeal without rushing to the lifeboats and trying to save themselves. If there was one thing I could...
| Author | Kristiana Gregory |
| ISBN | 0439164842 |
Author of the best-selling Royal Diaries title, CLEOPATRA VII, Kristiana Gregory now takes readers to twelfth-century France and introduces Eleanor of Aquitaine, who becomes queen at age 15.
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine lives in a castle in Poitier, France, with her father...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0688166768 |
During the closing days of the Civil War, plucky 12-year-old Hannalee Reed, sent north to work in a Yankee mill, struggles to return to the family she left behind in war-torn Georgia. "A fast-moving novel based upon an actual historical incident with a spunky heroine and fine historical detail."--School...
| Author | Barry Denenberg |
| ISBN | 0439555132 |
I think I would have enjoyed this book more had it been a 'real' diary of a girl who lived on Oahu during the attack on Pearl Harbor. But since this was a fictional diary, I had a hard time loving it. I feel the book gives us a possible taste of what life might have been like during this time, but the epilogue of...
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0590738887 |
The first humorous book in the Dear America series follows an Italian girl's immigrant family as they move from New York City to a utopian community in the frontier West.
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers...
| Author | Mary Casanova |
| ISBN | 1584855185 |
I read this book when I was young; as a younger me I found it a practically mesmerizing insight into the life of royalty in times of monarchal Versaille and utterly enjoyed reading about a girl who suddenly finds herself diving into the palace's world and discovering whether and where she belongs. The...
| Author | Virginia Sorensen |
| ISBN | 0152047255 |
An Amish girl, Esther feels like "one black bird against the sky" in her plain clothes. So when she's forced to attend public school she's terrified. She fears the new world she must enter, fears the way she sticks out next to other kids, and--most of all--fears she may do what her brother did: run away and...
| Author | Kristiana Gregory |
| ISBN | 0439369061 |
In Ms. Gregory's sequel to Five Smooth Stones, Hope's brother returns, but she worries about her father's fate and that of Philadelphia. This book is part of the relaunch of the My America series.
In this wonderful second book featuring Hope Penny Potter, the Revolutionary War wages on and...
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
Journey to the New World (Mayflower) / 0-590-50214-X
Like so many of the Dear America series, this book has wonderful history; the journey across the sea is so real, you can almost feel the narrator's sea sickness. The arrival in the New World is presented realistically: full of hope, joy, and...
