The Bailey Game

6 best books like The Bailey Game (Celia Rees): What Katy Did, Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation, Anne Frank: The Biography, Under the Hawthorn Tree, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, The Ice Dragon

What Katy Did

Author	Susan Coolidge
ISBN	0543904709

Twelve-year-old Katy is constantly making and quickly breaking resolutions about how she will change her ways and treat others, especially her five younger brothers and sisters, with more respect and compassion. When Katy meets her Cousin Helen, an invalid, Katy is awed by her kindness, prettiness,...

Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation

Author	George Psychoundakis
ISBN	0140273220

I am working my way through all of Patrick Leigh Fermor's books and, whilst he is only the translator here (also adding a few helpful footnotes and an introduction) Crete feels an important part of his myth, as well as an interesting slice of WW2 history in its own right. Actually Patrick Leigh Fermor is...

Anne Frank: The Biography

Author	Melissa Müller
ISBN	0805059962

Vollständig überarbeitete, um unbekanntes Material erweiterte Neuausgabe der maßgeblichen Biographie Anne Franks.Melissa Müllers fesselnde Biographie der Anne Frank erregte Ende der 1990er Jahre international großes Aufsehen. Zwei zuvor geheimgehaltene Tagebucheinträge Annes...

Under the Hawthorn Tree

Author	Marita Conlon-McKenna
ISBN	0862782066

It is the late 1880s and the Great Famine has ravaged Ireland. The potatoes are black and rotten, and the people have nothing to eat. Eily, Michael and Peggy are alone in their cottage. Their parents went out in search of work and food, but never returned. Now the children must fend for themselves. Desperate...

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Author	Joshua E. Hanft
ISBN	0866119825

These books are a nice way to introduce your children (and possibly, yourself) to the classics. In this particular version of the Arthurian legend, it takes you through the discovery of King Arthur in the first three or four chapters (what the Disney class movie, "Sword in the Stone" retells) through...

The Ice Dragon

Author	George R.R. Martin
ISBN	0765316315

The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember.
Adara could not...