Stop the Train!
10 best books like Stop the Train! (Geraldine McCaughrean): Alchemy and Meggy Swann, The Story of a Bad Boy, Soldier Bear, Who Comes with Cannons?, Touched by Fire, Hope's Crossing, The King of Mulberry Street, A House of Tailors, Kaleidoscope Eyes, The Case of the Good-Looking Corpse
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0547231849 |
Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann,newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was glad to be rid of her; her father, who sent for her, doesn't want her after all. Meggy is appalled by London,dirty and noisy, full of rogues and...
| Author | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1406806641 |
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
| Author | Bibi Dumon Tak |
| ISBN | 0802853757 |
Winner of the 2012 Batchelder Award
Based on a real series of events that happened during World War II, Soldier Bear tells the story of an orphaned bear cub adopted by a group of Polish soldiers in Iran. The soldiers raise the bear and eventually enlist him as a soldier to ensure that he stays...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0688110282 |
When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being waged to end this inhuman institution. Then one day, a runaway slave takes...
"Let them burn. They're a lot of cattle anyway."
A factory-owner's response regarding the use of fire drills in March 1911.
Touched by Fire, Irene N. Watt's exquisite new novel, explores one family's journey as they flee from the pogroms of Russia in 1905, where the Cossacks...
| Author | Joan Elizabeth Goodman |
| ISBN | 0698118073 |
Hope's father works for General Washington during the revolutionary war. Tories break into their house and burn everything down and even kidnap Hope who is just a young girl. Taken back to the Torie's house Hope is treated very badly, especially by the wife. Fortunately there's an older woman who helps...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0385746539 |
In 1892, nine-year-old Dom’s mother puts him on a ship leaving Italy, bound for America. He is a stowaway, traveling alone and with nothing of value except for a new pair of shoes from his mother. In the turbulent world of homeless children in Manhattan’s Five Points, Dom learns street smarts, and...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0440238005 |
SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk.
Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family.
When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany...
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0375840486 |
Will Lyza's 1968 summer mystery lead to . . . pirate treasure?
When Lyza helps her dad clean out her late grandfather's house, a mysterious surprise brightens the sad task. In Gramps's dusty attic, Lyza discovers three maps, carefully folded and stacked, bound by a single rubber band. On top,...
| Author | Caroline Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1444001701 |
I loved The Case of the Deadly Desperados so couldn't wait to catch up with our young detective P.K. Pinkerton as he goes about solving his latest mystery in The Case of the Good-Looking Corpse. I mentioned in my review of the first book that I wasn't sure of P.K's gender and now having read the second book...
| Author | Katherine Paterson |
| ISBN | 0140373977 |
Written by Newbery, National Book Award, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal winner Katherine Paterson
The Johnsons are becoming country music stars. They're on TV and the radio--and it's all because of James. His voice and his guitar playing bring the songs to life, and make the audiences beg...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0374382514 |
Although Ruby seemed to just appear out of thin air on the steps of the courthouse on the first day of summer in 1944, no one in Way Down Deep, West Virginia, ever worried too much about where the toddler came from. They figured that if Ruby's people were dumb enough to lose something as valuable as a child,...
| Author | Vera W. Propp |
| ISBN | 0698118812 |
I rated this a book a 5. Why? you may ask well, it's about this boy named Henk and he was Jewish so he was hidden in a farm when the Nazi soldiers came. He was living with some family he knew and loved until this man and women came to get him and told him they were there real parents, Henk was so confused. Then Henk...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0340268158 |
Sun Horse, Moon Horse is the story of Lubrin Dhu, third son of the Chieftain of the Iceni - the Early Iron Age horse people, who live by their skill in breeding and driving their great horse herds on the high chalk downs.
As a child, Lubrin sees the patterns of a private magic in his mind's eye - in the...
| Author | Tanya Landman |
| ISBN | 0763642193 |
A bearer of doom, or a bringer of change? As the Aztec empire falls, one girl defies her destiny.
In the golden city of Tenochtitlán, the people live in awe of Emperor Montezuma and in fear of blood-hungry gods. Under an ill-fated sky, a girl is born, facing a life of submission and domestic drudgery....
The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
| Author | Cynthia C. DeFelice |
| ISBN | 0374400148 |
A Matter of Life or Death
It's 1849, and twelve-year-old, Lucas Whitaker is all alone after his whole family dies of a disease called consumption which has swept through the community. Lucas is grief-stricken and filled with guilt. He might have saved his mother, who was the last to die, if only...
| Author | Ida Vos |
| ISBN | 0395653681 |
Sigh...and the Summer Curse continues.
Even aside from the bland writing and unimpressive plot, it still would've been an okay story if Anna hadn't become so unlikeable by the end of it. The way she bullied that poor innocent boy, Stefan, was disgusting. And not much is said about it. This isn't...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0385736169 |
From Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes a witty tale of the Wild West filled with comical cliffhangers and featuring a cast of plucky orphans and dastardly villains.
Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence. When she is unexpectedly orphaned,...
1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed...
| Author | Maurine F. Dahlberg |
| ISBN | 0142301450 |
Austria in 1938 is under the shadow of the Nazis, but twelve-year-old Greta doesn't notice-she cares only for her piano lessons with their new neighbor, a teacher with a mysterious past. Herr Hummel believes in Greta, and she begins to prepare for a recital. Then the Nazis invade, and Greta discovers...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0590467522 |
Sarah Jane discovers a young Apache boy that has escaped from the US government's grasp. After he becomes sick, Sarah Jane and her mother nurse him back to health, with instructions to notify the authorities. The only problem is, how can they send him to his "home" when he is already there with them?
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| Author | Elizabeth Laird |
| ISBN | 0330456997 |
Two boys, two faiths, one unholy war—two boys from opposing worlds come face to face in a thought-provoking historical adventure When Adam’s mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Employed as a dog-boy for the local knight, Adam grabs the chance to...
