The Astor Orphan: A Memoir

7 best books like The Astor Orphan: A Memoir (Alexandra Aldrich): Just Like Beverly: A Biography of Beverly Cleary, A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865, West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story, Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet, The Sisters of Glass Ferry

Just Like Beverly: A Biography of Beverly Cleary

Author	Vicki Conrad
ISBN	1632172224

Just Like Beverly follows the life of beloved children's author Beverly Cleary from her early years in Oregon to her career as a successful writer who wrote stories, including the wildly popular Ramona and Henry Huggins series, for kids just like her.

As a young girl, Beverly Cleary struggled...

A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859

Author	Patricia C. McKissack
ISBN	0590259881

Day or two later
Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowin' their true feelings, they call freedom "heaven." Everybody's mind is on freedom.
But it is a word that aine never...

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865

Author	Joyce Hansen
ISBN	0439555051

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy a Freed Girl is about a young African American girl, Patsy, who lived during the time when slavery was abolished after the Civil War.

The book was okay. I can see why I was attracted to reading this series when I was younger. The whole novel is...

West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi

Author	Jim Murphy
ISBN	0590738887

The first humorous book in the Dear America series follows an Italian girl's immigrant family as they move from New York City to a utopian community in the frontier West.

While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers...

Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story

Author	Isabel Gillies
ISBN	1439110077

Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two...

Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet

Author	Heather Poole
ISBN	0061986461

Real-life flight attendant Heather Poole has written a charming and funny insider’s account of life and work in the not-always-friendly skies. Cruising Attitude is a Coffee, Tea, or Me? for the 21st century, as the author parlays her fifteen years of flight experience into a delightful account...

The Sisters of Glass Ferry

Author	Kim Michele Richardson
ISBN	1496709551

*EDITORS CHOICE* Historical Novel Society
SIBA Okra Pick, Fall 2017
Longlisted for the 2018 Southern Book Prize


Spanning several decades and written in an authentic voice both lyrical and wise, The Sisters of Glass Ferry is a haunting novel about small-town Southern secrets,...