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10 best books like Sticks Across the Chimney: A Story of Denmark (Nora Burglon): The Journeyman, The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin, White Stallion of Lipizza, The Apprentice, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great, Hill of Fire, Window on the World: When We Pray God Works, Peter the Great, The Greek News, A Child's History of the World

The Journeyman
AuthorElizabeth Yates
ISBN0890845352
The boy isn't much to look at: thin, pale, and undersized for his age. Neighbors shake their heads over Jared Austin's odd ways. His father doesn't think he's good for anything much. Even his friend Jennet wonders what will become of him.

But Jared isn't concerned; he has his own ideas about what...
The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin
AuthorBailey MacDonald
The play’s the thing . . .

To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the Crown and forced them into hiding....
White Stallion of Lipizza
AuthorMarguerite Henry
ISBN0027436284
The magnificent Lipizzan stallions of Vienna come to life as never before in this exciting story by award-winning author, Marguerite Henry.

A young boy named Hans dreams of one day working with the famed stallions of Lipizza. But coming from a family of bakers, Hans is discouraged from ever...
The Apprentice
AuthorPilar Molina Llorente
ISBN0374404321
Given a challenge to read a book set in the Renaissance, I hit our school library card catalog hoping to find a few options for a quick read. I found one. One book set in the Renaissance. This book. So I read it. I'm sure it is one of those books that rarely gets checked out because the cover looks dated, and the...
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great
AuthorGerald Morris
ISBN0618777148
Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Of these worthy knights, there was never one so fearless, so chivalrous, so honorable, so…shiny as the dashing Sir Lancelot, who was quite good at defending...
Hill of Fire
AuthorThomas P. Lewis
ISBN0064440400
I feel like I have no choice but to rate a book that literally haunted my dreams for my childhood five stars. What is more terrifying than a volcano sprouting up out of nowhere? To me as a child, literally nothing.

I saw this on Reading Rainbow as a kid and had recurring nightmares for years and years....
Window on the World: When We Pray God Works
AuthorDaphne Spraggett
ISBN1932805915
Well loved by young and old - a book that will inform and inspire the whole family, this beautifully presented, yet practical book, is the ideal accompaniment to Operation World. Stunning photographic visuals complement this A to Z of countries and people groups providing an exciting learning experience...
Peter the Great
AuthorDiane Stanley
A very short book about Peter the Great - the Tsar who drug Russia (kicking and screaming) into more modern times. This is a children's book, so it is not very detailed, but the artwork is beautiful and there is enough information to whet the appetite about a historical figure whose name I knew, but not much...
The Greek News
AuthorAnton Powell
ISBN0763603406
"These entertaining, deftly organized books will make terrific light-hearted additions to cirriculum units on ancient civilizations." — Publishers Weekly

Stop the presses! What if ancient civilizations had daily newspapers? And they were amusing and compellingly informative?...
A Child's History of the World
AuthorV.M. Hillyer
ISBN0899669387
A Child's History of the World is a classic. Written shortly after World War I by Calvert School's first Head Master, Virgil Hillyer, this history storybook combines charm with facts to stimulate young minds and leave them yearning for more information. This volume of A Child's History of the World...
No Children, No Pets
AuthorMarion Holland
ISBN0394914473
This was a cute story (from a simpler time) about a family that moves into an inherited apartment building and goes to work fixing it up, and trying to solve a few mysteries in the process.

Sonlight includes it as a kindergarten read-aloud, but I think we'll play it by ear -- it was a fine story, but...
Wagon Wheels
AuthorBarbara Brenner
ISBN0064440524
I really like this story and find it very unique in its choice of topic. Here we have a tale of black pioneers heading west to settle on free land being offered by the government. Based on the real life story of the Muldie boys, whose story was chronicled in a local teacher's journal from the town of Nicodemus....
Tales of Robin Hood
AuthorTony Allan
ISBN0746020635
I absoluetly loved Tales of Robin Hood! I was laughing, crying and in the midst of this intense story! I now want to read the original book. I have been familiar with the story of Robin Hood, but reading it was completely different. I loved the intrigue, intense battles and the clear fight of good vs evil....
The Minstrel in the Tower
AuthorGloria Skurzynski
ISBN0394895983
In this gripping medieval page-turner, Roger and his sister Alice are
kidnapped and held for ransom in an ancient tower. To escape and find their
uncle, the children must summon all their courage and imagination. "Designed as
easy-reading material for middle-graders, this has the virtues...
Red Sails to Capri
AuthorAnn Weil
ISBN0140328580
The minute he saw the boat with the red sails moving into the harbor, Michele knew that something exciting was going to happen. It was the biggest and most beautiful ship fourteen-year-old Michele had ever seen. Sailing on the ship were three men who would come to stay at Michele's parents' inn. The men...
Philomena
AuthorKate Seredy
ISBN0670551449
A story from Kate Seredy's own background takes Czechoslovakian Philomena from her country home to seek her fortune in Prague after her Grandmother dies. With Babushka's warm advice in her heart, Philomena sets out with confidence but the first thing she must do requires more than that- she must find...
The Little Riders
AuthorMargaretha Shemin
ISBN0688124992
"Take care of the little riders," says Johanna's father to the eleven-year-old when he leaves her with his parents for an extended vacation in their Dutch village. And Johanna does. She loves the twelve metal figures on horseback who ride forth each hour from the clock on the ancient church tower. She...
The Secret Valley
AuthorClyde Robert Bulla
ISBN0064404560
I found pages 19/20 & 23/24 of this book floating around my street on a windy day. When I picked them up to throw them away, I decided to read them first. I was intrigued. It was a children's book I was not familiar with. All I could glean from the pages I found were the names of some of the characters: Frank...
Missionary Stories with the Millers
AuthorMildred A. Martin
ISBN0962764345
Sad to see this book end. While reading it to my 7yr old, my 10yr old daughter would always listen with one ear open while she was supposed to be reading her own school books. I can't rave enough about it! It engaged us in true stories of missionaries across the globe throughout many centuries of time. It demostrates...
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess
AuthorRichard Platt
ISBN0763621641
"Not many, if any, children’s books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of information found in this fresh, appealing offering." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)

What was it really like to live in a castle? Step back to the Middle Ages with Castle Diary: The Journal...
The Kitchen Madonna
AuthorRumer Godden
ISBN0670413992
Today I read The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden. It is one of those books that has been languishing in my “to read” pile.

Initially, I picked up Shopaholic & Baby, which has been neglected while I finished my paper. However, within the first few pages, Becky Bloomwood was back to her...
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