Sold for Endless Rue

7 best books like Sold for Endless Rue (Madeleine E. Robins): The Devil's Arithmetic, Bitter Greens, Owl Moon, Snow in Summer, The Swan Maiden, Dragon's Blood, Princess of the Wild Swans

The Devil's Arithmetic
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0142401099
I wish I could say I liked this book. I thought I would. I know it's critically acclaimed and a well-known story. But it left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

The book is meant to educate young people about the Holocaust, but it had a lot of historical inaccuracies. The idyllic shtetl world at the beginning...
Bitter Greens
AuthorKate Forsyth
ISBN1250047536

A Library Journal Best Book of 2014: Historical Fiction

The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of love

French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has...
Owl Moon
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0399214577
Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird.

But there is no answer.

Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling...
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0399256636
With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her father's garden. And her life in the mountains of West Virginia seems like a fairy tale; her parents sing and dance with her, Cousin Nancy dotes on her, and she is about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby dies soon after...
AuthorHeather Tomlinson
ISBN0805082751
In the quiet hour before dawn, anything can happen. A third daughter can dream of being a creature of flight and magic, of wearing a swan-skin like her sisters. But Doucette must run the castle household while her older sisters learn to weave spells. Her dream of flying is exactly that--until the day she...
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0152051260
I loved this book when I was a kid. Read it for the first time in 5th grade. Still love it to this day.
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I had to write a bit more in defense of this book after reading some of the harsher critiques written by others. First of all, this was a children's book and yes, perhaps it it is not politically...
AuthorDiane Zahler
ISBN0062004921
Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Wild Swans,” this enchanting fantasy by Diane Zahler, author of The Thirteenth Princess and A True Princess, is a tale of family, bravery . . . and a terrible spell.

Princess Meriel’s brothers have been cursed. An evil enchantment cast by their...
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