Spring Pearl: The Last Flower
10 best books like Spring Pearl: The Last Flower (Laurence Yep): Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846,, Meet Felicity: An American Girl, Beware, Princess Elizabeth, A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, Meet Addy: An American Girl, Baby Bear Counts One, The Night Flyers, Trouble at Fort Lapointe, The Strange Case of Baby H, Shadows in the Glasshouse
| Author | Sherry Garland |
| ISBN | 0606228101 |
Title of Book: Valley of the Moon
Author: Sherry Garland
Summary:
What would it be like to be a servant? Maria Rosalia has been a servant for nine years of her life and her brother Domingo is a stable boy. But they have been well treated by the Medina family and other servants who feel...
Meet Felicity: An American Girl
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 1562470043 |
This is my first American Girl book. I wanted E to read them to get a little taste of history, and unfortunately, I have to say I didn't like this one. Maybe the others are different, I hope so, because I love the concept. The problem I had with this book, was that this little girl essentially stole, lied, disobeyed...
| Author | Carolyn Meyer |
| ISBN | 0152045562 |
Imprisonment. Betrayal. Lost love. Murder. What more must a princess endure?
Elizabeth Tudor's teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her mother has been beheaded by Elizabeth's own father, Henry...
| Author | C. Coco De Young |
| ISBN | 0440415292 |
Eleven-year-old Margo Bandini has never been afraid of anything. Her life in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with Mama and Papa and her little brother, Charlie, has always felt secure. But it's 1933, and the Great Depression is changing things for families all across America.
One day the impossible...
Meet Addy: An American Girl
| Author | Connie Rose Porter |
| ISBN | 1562470752 |
Addy Walker's family is planning a dangerous escape
from slavery in the summer of 1864. But before they can make the escape, the worst happens--Master Stevens decides to sell some of his slaves, including Poppa and Addy's brother, Sam. Addy and Momma take the terrible risk of escaping by themselves,...
Baby Bear is back in this cozy, counting-themed companion to the celebrated Baby Bear Sees Blue.
Fall has arrived in Baby Bear's forest, and the woods are teeming with animals busily preparing for winter.
How many animals?
Count along from one to ten with Baby Bear as he and...
| Author | Elizabeth McDavid Jones |
| ISBN | 1562477595 |
I will never be able to get over how American Girl made such an impact on the historical fiction for young girls genre. I truly believe that they are one of the biggest reasons why I became such a history lover and why, to this day, historical fiction remains one of my preferred genres.
But anyway,...
| Author | Kathleen Ernst |
| ISBN | 1584850868 |
A 2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee for Best Children's Mystery! Suzette Choudoir has spent each of her twelve summers at La Pointe Island on Lake Superior, where Ojibwe people camp by the French fur-trade fort. It is 1732 and if her papa wins the trappers' competition, the prize will let him stay with...
| Author | Kathryn Reiss |
| ISBN | 1584855339 |
Twelve-year-old Clara Curfman has survived the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and discovers a baby abandoned on her doorstep. Taking the baby in, her family hopes it can fill the void left by Clara's brother's death. But Clara soon suspects the baby is the victim of a kidnapping, not an earthquake....
| Author | Megan McDonald |
| ISBN | 1584850922 |
I thought this book did a good job keeping a lot of history in this fictional story. It was so interesting to learn how important glassblowing was to the early colony of Jamestown, and how some of the events relating to it in the story were actually true. I don’t even really remember learning about indentured...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0142403229 |
Thirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great- grandmother, Nana Sashie-until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories. As the events and characters of Sashie's past come to life, Rachel...
