Steal Away Home

Author	Molly MacRae
ISBN	1681772566

A murder in a garden turns the four new owners of Yon Bonnie Books into amateur detectives, in a captivating new cozy mystery novel from Molly MacRae.

Set in the weeks before the annual Inversgail Literature Festival in Scotland, Plaid and Plagiarism begins on a morning shortly after the four...

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0142401102

"I don't think Grandma's a very good influence on us," Mary Alice said.

Every August, Joey Dowdel and his kid sister Mary Alice spend a week at their Granny's house.

She was so big and the town was so small. She was old too, or so we thought -- old as the hills. And tough! She was tough as an...

Author	Edward Eager
ISBN	0152020683

Would you believe I grew up in Toledo, Ohio and never noticed while reading and re-reading this that it was set in my hometown? It's true. I don't know if I just figured ALL books were set there, and that's why the street names were so familiar or if I was just extraordinarily clueless. I figured it out finally...

Author	Barbara Williams
ISBN	0590944649

"Titanic Crossing" is a story about a 13 year old boy named Albert Trask, who is going back to America so he and his family can be closer to Alberts grandmother. Mrs. Trask and little Virginia don't want to leave. But when Albert and Virginia's uncle comes to London, they are left with no choice. Albert is...

Author	Anne Lindbergh
ISBN	0763617393

An absorbing, classic fantasy that taps into the wishful thinking of every imaginative child.

In THE PEOPLE IN PINEAPPLE PLACE, August Brown, new kid on the block in Washington, D.C., finds more than he bargains for when he follows the ragbag lady to a mysterious street called Pineapple Place....

Author	Barbara Smucker
ISBN	0141306866

Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend...

Author	Janet Lunn
ISBN	0140318356

This is another wonderful orphan story and time travel story.

It reminded me of many other books including Time At The Top, The Twins at Thatchem Quickett, A Long Way to Go, Homecoming, and The Secret Garden (mentioned in the book); all are books I’ve enjoyed.

I love that these people...

Author

Katherine Ayres

It's 1851 and Lucy Spencer's family is keeping a secret. Their Ohio home is a station on the Underground Railroad, the network of people and places that helps fugitive slaves escape to freedom in Canada. Lucy believes in what she and her family do to help the fugitives, even if it means putting herself...

Author

Giles Andreae

I finished reading “Commotion in the Ocean” by Giles Andreae. This book is about many of the animals that live in the ocean, and that live around the ocean. It talks about all of the fish, the ones that live in shallow waters, all the way to the ones that live in deep sea at the bottom of the ocean. This book...