Snowfall
10 best books like Snowfall (K.M. Peyton): Broken Moon, The Devil in Vienna, The Smuggler's Treasure, Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. and Stefan K., Wendy, Victory, Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory, Minette, Amelia's War, Powder Monkey
| Author | Kim Antieau |
| ISBN | 1416917675 |
I WILL NEVER HAVE A HUSBAND, BUT I HAVE THE BEST BROTHER IN THE WORLD. YOUR BREATH ON MY CHEEK -- ON MY SCAR -- FELT LIKE THE BREATH OF ALLAH.
Nadira is spoiled goods. Scars from a beating she received for a crime that her older brother allegedly committed tell the world that she is worth less than nothing...
| Author | Doris Orgel |
| ISBN | 0142402362 |
Inge Dorenwald and Lieselotte Vessely have been best friends for most of their thirteen years. They share secrets, fears, hopes and even the same birthday. It never mattered that Inge was Jewish and that Lieselotte was the daughter of a Nazi SS officer—until now. Hitler and Nazism are infiltrating...
| Author | Sarah Masters Buckey |
| ISBN | 1562477579 |
The Smuggler's Treasure is about an eleven year old girl named Elisabet Holder who's father, a ship's captain, is captured by the British and Elisabet is sent to live with her aunt and uncle in New Orleans. Upon arriving Elisabet finds out that her uncle has passed away and her aunt is in Baton Rouge caring...
| Author | Lutz van Dijk |
| ISBN | 0805037705 |
‘The Soul records only growth not time. This is why some people have such a great impact on our lives even though we only know them for a short time whereas others we’ve known a lifetime have no effect at all’. From Kung Fu.
This book is marketed as a gay autobiographical love story set...
| Author | Karen Wallace |
| ISBN | 1416903143 |
Wendy's imagination never runs away from her -- it flies.
Wendy Darling is not the perfect girl her parents would like her to be. Intrepid, outspoken, and willful, she's always getting into trouble. One evening, confined to the nursery by her horrible nanny, she sneaks out to spy on one of her...
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 1416914773 |
Two Children, Two Struggles, One Battle...
One child is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The other is Molly Jennings, an English girl transplanted from London to the United States...
Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
| Author | Peter Gillman |
| ISBN | 0898867517 |
The discovery of George Mallory's body high on Everest stunned the world. Yet behind the headlines, investigative journalists Peter and Leni Gillman sensed there was far more to the story than whether Mallory had reached the top. How did Mallory reconcile his deep love for his wife and children with...
To know her was to love her.
Born in the very heart of the dangers of the English Civil War, smuggled out of the clutches of Parliament as a toddler and then raised in near penury in exile in France, the charming and beautiful Princess Henrietta-Anne Stuart, youngest daughter of Charles I and Henrietta...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0590117459 |
Amelia’s War by Ann Rinaldi
The book is about a girl who want to do her part in the Civil War.
She doesn’t live in the 21century but back in the 1800’s so they live differently.
This book is good for teenagers because you can see what a girl about your age has to do back then during a War. The...
| Author | Paul Dowswell |
| ISBN | 1582347484 |
Thirteen-year-old Sam Witchall has always dreamed of being a sailor, but he never realized how dangerous and gruesome life at sea could be until he is pressed into service aboard HMS Miranda. Beginning his naval career as a "powder monkey"--assisting the gun crews on the warship--Sam learns the ropes...
| Author | Carolyn Meyer |
| ISBN | 0152051163 |
Marie van Goethem, a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer in the famed Paris Opéra, has led a life of hardship and poverty. For her, dancing is the only joy to counter the pain inflicted by hunger, her mother's drinking, and her selfish older sister. But when famed artist Edgar Degas demands Marie's presence...
| Author | John Hamamura |
| ISBN | 0312340737 |
Growing up in a time between wars, Sam Hamada finds that the culture of his native Japan is never far from his heart. Sam is rapidly learning the code of the samurai in the late 1930s on the lush Hawaiian Islands, where he is slowly coming into his own as a son and a man.
But after Sam strikes out for...
| Author | Alma Alexander |
| ISBN | 0060765704 |
The great king Red Dynan has been slain in battle, leaving two of his blood to dispute the future of his leaderless realm: a ruthless illegitimate son determined to wear the crown—and Anghara Kir Hama, the rightful queen…a nine-year-old-girl.
The life Anghara knows has ended; everyone...
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0698119703 |
1968 looks like it'll be a pretty good year for Jaynell Lambert. The town's going to pave the dirt road she lives on, her girly-girl sister, Racine, isn't driving her completely crazy, and Grandpap has just moved in with his new emerald green Cadillac convertible. Jaynell and Grandpap have something...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| ISBN | 0590203487 |
Nathan had almost always dreamed of pirates back at Graylake School. When he and his sister, Maud, become orphaned after their father suddenly dies, they leave England with the famous pirate’s son, Tamo White after he offers them a place to stay. They sail away to far away Madagascar where they settle...
The Time Travelers: Volume Two
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0553494813 |
Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She asks to travel back a hundred years to 1899, when her beloved Strat is in Cairo. But in what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt instead, thousands of years before Strat was born.
Powerless, Annie and Strat both look to Time. Can its...
| Author | Allan Wolf |
| ISBN | 0763621137 |
I thought this book was amazing! It is told from the point of view of twelve different members of the Corps of Discovery, plus Capt. Lewis's newfoundland dog. While each of the human members of the expedition speaks in a sort of free verse poetry, the dog's point of view is written in regular prose. I thought...
| Author | Mary Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0064400298 |
I read this at the age of 9. I had read Honestly Katie John! and Katie John and combed the local libraries 'till I found this one. It is different from the others and unique, full of the adventures of a fun, adventurous girl next door. It's full of surprises! Each Katie John book is unique in its own way. In this...
| Author | Teresa L. Perin |
| ISBN | 1478712090 |
Sometimes the most dangerous enemy comes from within your own family. In medieval England daughters meant dowries - land and money leaving the family. Richard is determined to have a male heir to keep the castle Havenhoerte in their possession and forces his daughter, Emma, to marry at the age of consent,...
| Author | Margaret Mahy |
| ISBN | 1869506871 |
This is one of the most unusual fantasy novels I’ve ever read. It’s written by New Zealand author Margaret Mahy; I’d heard great things about her but never read anything by her and this book seemed like it would be to my liking--it sounded like a good, hearty, old-fashioned stand-alone YA fantasy...
Goong, Palace Story, Volume 27
Ohh~ and at last it ended. I finally reached the open conclusion of the story. This manga was filled with so much emotion--love, hate, sadness, happiness and all sorts a human could feel. I cried, I laughed and I even hated Hyo rin. I almost cursed Yul. Haha The author succeeded in manipulating the feelings...
| Author | Patricia Curtis Pfitsch |
| ISBN | 0689866925 |
Don't tell anyone -- the only safety is in secrecy.
During the summer of 1894 the giant sequoia trees -- the oldest living things on earth -- are being felled for lumber in northern California. When fifteen-year-old Francie finds a note hidden in the stump of an old sequoia, she immediately recognizes...
When John Mason discovers that his fiancée's father has embezzled thousands of pounds from their mutual business, he's furious. When his betrothed, Miss Mary Chartley, flees, taking the money and all the evidence with her, he's outraged. He plans to bring the woman he once loved to account--and he’ll...
Noble Cause: A Novel of Love and War
Author's Note: This novel is a new version of Shades of Gray with a Happily-Ever-After ending.
This is the tale of Colonel Alexander Hunter, a dauntless and daring Confederate cavalry officer, who, with his band of intrepid outcasts, becomes a legend in the rolling hills of northern Virginia....
