Sue Barton, Student Nurse
10 best books like Sue Barton, Student Nurse (Helen Dore Boylston): The First Four Years, Farmer Boy, Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, Alice Adams, Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics, One of Ours, August Is A Wicked Month, Antidote to Venom, Cherry Ames, Army Nurse, So Lucky
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060885459 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. Laura is a young pioneer wife now, and must work hard with Almanzo, farming the land around their home on the South Dakota prairie. Soon their baby daughter, Rose, is born, and the young family must face the...
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060885386 |
Are you hungry yet?
Much of Laura's childhood was spent in near-starvation. While they always had something to eat, it was never enough for the family to be satisfied.
Thus when Laura wrote about Almanzo (her future husband)'s childhood, she focused on the most idyllic parts and what...
Cherry Ames, Student Nurse
| Author | Helen Wells |
| ISBN | 0977159701 |
In Student Nurse, Cherry starts nursing school at Spencer with a mixture of anxiety and anticipation - would she have what it takes to be a nurse? She leaves her quiet town of Hilton, Illinois for the bustle of hospital life, to meet challenges she wouldn't have imagined. The U.S. is at war. Many nurses...
| Author | Booth Tarkington |
| ISBN | 1434100243 |
Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "high society" who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are tempered by the realities of her situation, which she learns to accept with grace and style. Alice's resiliency of spirit makes her one...
Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
| Author | Chris Grabenstein |
| ISBN | 0553510401 |
Welcome, boys and girls, readers of all ages, to the first-ever Library Olympiad! Kyle and his teammates are back, and the world-famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, is at it again!
This time Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS....
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 1600969798 |
One of Ours is Willa Cather's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive but aspiring protagonist, has ready access to his family's fortune but refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his uncaring father and pious mother, and rejected...
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0686408233 |
There I was, feeling the beginnings of a mid-life crisis starting to emerge. . . contemplating the merits of a navel piercing. . . or worse. . . when, suddenly, I spotted a black and white book cover featuring a snarky gal with a cigarette dangling from her mouth. A definite look of devil-may-care sitting...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| ISBN | 1464203792 |
‘Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle’ – Times Literary Supplement
‘He always manages to give us something that really keeps us guessing’ – Daily Mirror
George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage...
| Author | Helen Wells |
| ISBN | 0977159728 |
In Army Nurse, Cherry has made the difficult decision facing all her classmates - should she enlist in the military or practice nursing on the homefront? She's graduated from Spencer and earned the right to put "RN" after her name, and as an Army nurse, she is now "Lieutenant Ames." The Army nurses are...
| Author | Dawn O'Porter |
| ISBN | 0008126070 |
IS ANYONE’S LIFE . . .
Beth shows that women really can have it all.
Ruby lives life by her own rules.
And then there’s Lauren, living the dream.
AS PERFECT AS IT LOOKS?
Beth hasn’t had sex in a year.
Ruby feels like she’s failing.
Lauren’s happiness...
