Shadow of a Bull
10 best books like Shadow of a Bull (Maia Wojciechowska): Roller Skates, It's Like This, Cat, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32, I, Juan de Pareja, Up a Road Slowly, The Grey King, The Trumpeter of Krakow, Adam of the Road, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, The Matchlock Gun
| Author | Ruth Sawyer |
| ISBN | 0140303588 |
Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman's parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York...
| Author | Emily Cheney Neville |
| ISBN | 0064400735 |
Dave Mitchell and his father disagree on almost everything—and every time their...
| Author | Joan W. Blos |
| ISBN | 0689829914 |
So begins the journal of a girl coming of age in nineteenth-century New Hampshire. Catherine records both the hardships of pioneer life and its many triumphs. Even as she struggles with her mother’s death and...
I, Juan de Pareja
| Author | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño |
| ISBN | 0374435251 |
Juan de Pareja's portrait by Velázquez is my favorite painting (every time I see it, it makes me cry) so it was with trepidation and excitement that I started this audio.
The book follows the story of Juan de Pareja and his life as the slave of Diego de Velázquez, the leading...
Up a Road Slowly
| Author | Irene Hunt |
| ISBN | 0425202054 |
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 1416949674 |
With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets out on a quest to call for aid. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp that he must use to wake the Sleepers...
The Trumpeter of Krakow
| Author | Eric P. Kelly |
| ISBN | 0689715714 |
When Joseph and...
| Author | Elizabeth Gray Vining |
| ISBN | 0142406597 |
"A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's a good work to keep a road in repair, like giving alms to the poor or...
| Author | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis |
| ISBN | 0805081135 |
When Young Fu arrives with his mother in bustling 1920s Chungking, all he has seen of the world is the rural farming village where he has grown up. He knows nothing of city life. But the city, with...
The Matchlock Gun
| Author | Walter D. Edmonds |
| ISBN | 0698116801 |
In 1756, New York State was still a British colony, and the French and the Indians were constant threats to Edward and his family. When his father was called away to watch for a raid from the north, only Edward was left to protect Mama and little Trudy. His father had shown...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1416914072 |
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
| Author | Elizabeth Coatsworth |
| ISBN | 0689714335 |