Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn
10 best books like Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn (Hannah Holmes): Before We Were Free, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, La Dame aux Camélias, A Night in Terror Tower, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, Chop Wood, Carry Water, Los Gatos Black on Halloween, Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers, Pumpkin Eye, The Vanishing Pumpkin
| Author | Julia Alvarez |
Anita de la Torre is a twelve-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960. Most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared, Papi...
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
| Author | Shunryu Suzuki |
| ISBN | 0834800799 |
So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...
La Dame aux Camélias
| Author | Alexandre Dumas fils |
| ISBN | 0192836382 |
The Lady with the Camellias, is a novel by Alexandre Dumas (Son), first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage. Written by Alexandre Dumas (Son) (1824–1895) when he was 23 years old, and first published...
A Night in Terror Tower
| Author | R.L. Stine |
| ISBN | 0439671116 |
Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. No way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower.
No way they'd...
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
| Author | Linda Williams |
| ISBN | 0064431835 |
“A great purchase for Halloween or any time of year.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
Once upon a time, there was a little old lady who was not afraid of anything! But one autumn night, while walking in the...
| Author | Rick Fields |
| ISBN | 0874772095 |
Magical Power, Marvelous Action!
Chopping Wood, Carrying Water...
The message is as true today as it was then: the greatest lessons and the profoundest heights of the spiritual path can be found in our everyday life....
| Author | Marisa Montes |
| ISBN | 0805074295 |
Under October's luna, full and bright, the monsters are throwing a ball in the Haunted Hall. Las brujas come on their broomsticks. Los muertos rise from their coffins to join in the fun. Los esqueletos rattle their bones as they...
Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
| Author | Ruth Padel |
| ISBN | 0802715443 |
Pumpkin Eye
| Author | Denise Fleming |
| ISBN | 0805076352 |
The page with the yellow moon text didn't show a moon. It showed a house and a pumpkin. A page announcing...
The Vanishing Pumpkin
| Author | Tony Johnston |
| ISBN | 0698114140 |
When a 700-year-old woman and an 800-year-old man want to make pumpkin pie on Halloween, they can't find their pumpkin. "Our pumpkin's been snitched," cries the woman. And off they go to find it.
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