Sister of the Bride
10 best books like Sister of the Bride (Beverly Cleary): Remember Me to Harold Square, Domestic Arrangements, The Mitchells: Five for Victory, Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe, Lyle and the Birthday Party, To All My Fans, with Love, from Sylvie, The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case, Anastasia on Her Own, Henry Reed's Journey, Sue Barton, Neighborhood Nurse
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698116941 |
This summer could be a disaster. Kendra's parents have invited Frank, a 15-year-old she's never met, to stay with them. And they've planned a goofy scavenger hunt for the kids, including Kendra's bratty younger brother. They have to race all around New York City and visit places like the Empire State...
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0449245209 |
I first read this book in the early 80s when I was a young teenager and I adored it then. It's about Tatiana, a 14-year-old New Yorker, who stars in her first movie and is navigating her blooming sexuality. I loved all of Norma Klein's books and so it was interesting for me to read Domestic Arrangements again...
| Author | Hilda van Stockum |
| ISBN | 1883937051 |
The five Mitchell children are based on the author's own family. In the first of three books about their adventures, Daddy has just gone off to World War II. One of his final words to his daughter Joan is, "No dogs " She would dearly love such a pet, but life is full and so many new friends -- pets as well as people...
Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0061794724 |
Betsy Was a Junior: It's the best school year ever, especially now that charming, funny Tib Muller is back in Deep Valley. But when her crowd gets into trouble, Betsy's best year could turn out to be her worst.
Betsy and Joe: Betsy always thought she and Joe Willard were made for each other—and...
Lyle and the Birthday Party
| Author | Bernard Waber |
| ISBN | 0395174511 |
Filled my heart with joy. Poor little Lyle the crocodile is jealous of his human "brother" Joshua's birthday party. He is a good little crocodile, and tries desperately hard not to feel so envious, but he almost chokes on his own bitterness, watching Joshua opening his presents and blowing out the candles...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0671637630 |
Sylvie isn't your average girl. When she dresses up she looks eighteen, and she's spent the last three years in foster care plotting her escape to Hollywood. But as Sylvie quickly learns on the road, zigzagging across the Midwest in a stranger's two-tone blue Pontiac, life isn't like the movies. Left...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440424852 |
Legit props to Snyder for giving the book this title. You know these kids are going to be kidnaped and the fact that the first half of the book is just a travelogue about the family moving to Italy really ramps up the tension. Every time they go on a picnic, or their parents leave for work, you think . . . this...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0440402913 |
Help! Anastasia Krupnik's mother must organize her chaotic life. So Anastasia, who is a very organized person, and her father invent the solution to Mrs. Krupnik's problem: the Krupnik Family Nonsexist Housekeeping Schedule.
But when Mrs. Krupnik goes to California on a ten-day business...
| Author | Keith Robertson |
| ISBN | 0140341455 |
This book took me back to the old Wonderful World of Disney TV show, with their travel documentaries that took us through the Southwest, and so many movies that starred a singer or personality, with Disneyland as supporting actor. All the tropes are here: Chinatown, Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, the...
| Author | Helen Dore Boylston |
| ISBN | 0316104752 |
Sue Barton, Neighborhood Nurse. Sue Barton left her position as Superintendent of Nurses at the Springdale, New Hampshire Hospital in order to raise a family. Now she and Dr. Bill have three children: six-year-old Tabitha and the four-year-old twins, Johnny and Jerry. Sue is happy in her job as wife...
| Author | Mary Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0064400301 |
I think this is my favorite of the Katie John books just because she is struggling with such an identifiable struggle: growing into a young lady but not wanting to act like everyone else who had turned unrecognizable and boy crazy. I think just hearing me read it might have made my daughters feel better...
| Author | Candice Ransom |
| ISBN | 0590330640 |
The South that raised her was at war, while Susannah's own battle raged in her heart....
Susannah had lived her sixteen years as a proper Virginia girl - obedient, dreaming of marriage, leaving the decisions to the men. But when her brother and her fiance are called on to defend the South, Susannah...
| Author | Rosamond du Jardin |
| ISBN | 0590023977 |
Tobey Heydon is "practically seventeen" and thinks she is old enough to make her own decisions. Whether it's saving her sister Alicia from last minute wedding disasters to keeping her sister Janet informed on her son's well-being to hiding her diary from her little sister Midge, Tobey handles it all...
| Author | Lenora Mattingly Weber |
| ISBN | 0963960741 |
Beany, sixteen, is instructed by her father to "look after" the Malone family when he travels to Arizona to convalesce following a case of pneumonia. With protective loyalty, Beany's attempts to shield her family from pain and disappointment by locking up their hearts from potential threats. Mary...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0590334026 |
I read this series CHEERLEADERS as a teenager and I remember loving the characters and their story lines. All different authors. I have books 1-3, 5-8, 25 & 29. No idea what happened to the others but I know I had more than these.
Blurb from back of book 1:
To all of them, being a cheerleader...
