The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
10 best books like The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (Alice Dalgliesh): And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales, The Dragons of Blueland, The Matchlock Gun, Toliver's Secret, Swift Rivers, The Corn Grows Ripe, Pocahontas and the Strangers (Scholastic Biography), Squanto, Friend Of The Pilgrims, Phoebe the Spy
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698113519 |
I remember having to read And Then What Happened Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz when I was in elementary school. It was one of a number of books we had to read when we were learning about Revere and his contemporaries. While the book did teach me a great deal about the life of Revere I found it's saccharine cheerfulness...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0688155952 |
When Josh McBroom learns that the eighty acres of Iowa farmland he's purchased are all stacked up on top of each other at the bottom of a muddy little pond, he thinks he's been bamboozled. But McBroom knows he's got the better of the bargain when the pond dries up to reveal an acre of soil so rich that seeds...
| Author | Ruth Stiles Gannett |
| ISBN | 0394890507 |
My Father's Dragon series is entirely delightful and fun! So be sure to read all three in the series. Both you and your kiddos will enjoy the engaging and whimsical adventures that Elmer and his friend dragon go on. Illustrations are quite lovely too, and we keep those younger ones attentive.
Ages:...
| Author | Walter D. Edmonds |
| ISBN | 0698116801 |
A Newbery Medal Winner
In 1756, New York State was still a British colony, and the French and the Indians were constant threats to Edward and his family. When his father was called away to watch for a raid from the north, only Edward was left to protect Mama and little Trudy. His father had shown...
| Author | Esther Wood Brady |
| ISBN | 0679848045 |
I read this book aloud to my children. It is an historical fiction adventure set in New York in the 1700s.
Ten year-old Ellen Toliver is a meek and mild girl, who is often bullied by another girl named Dicey. Grandfather encourages Ellen to stand up for herself and talk back to Dicey, but Mother...
| Author | Cornelia Meigs |
| ISBN | 0802777031 |
Barred from his family home- stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather’s land and float the logs...
| Author | Dorothy Rhoads |
| ISBN | 0140363130 |
A Newbery Honor Book
Can Tigre find the strength and courage to support his family?
When Tigre's father is badly injured in an accident, the family is thrown into turmoil. Who will plant and harvest the corn that they need to survive--and to please the Mayan gods? The neighbors have...
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| ISBN | 0590434810 |
Summary
This book tells the story of a young curious Indian girl named Pocahontas. Pocahontas is the daughter of king Powhatan. She worked in the fields along with the other women and children. One day, the village received message of palefaces down by the river. She remembered stories that a wise...
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| ISBN | 0590440551 |
I still remember when I picked this up as a beginning reader. It was the thrill of reading an "older kid's book about a real person" that made it exciting, and the more mature narrative flow that made me feel accomplished. Some books you don't forget.
I've recently read a few other titles by Clyde...
| Author | Judith Berry Griffin |
| ISBN | 0698119568 |
Someone is planning to kill George Washington, and young Phoebe Fraunces is trying to save his life. Phoebe gets a job as George Washington's housekeeper, but her real job is to work as a spy. She listens and watches very carefully, and she meets her father every day to tell him what she has learned. One...
| Author | Elizabeth Yates |
| ISBN | 0890847541 |
I thought this book was a very good book and an easy reads.This fiction book was wrote by Elizabeth Yates and the name of the book is Sarah Whitcher's Story.This book is about a big family that lives out in the woods and they do things like in the old times and they are a Christian family.One day Pa and Ma went...
| Author | Pam Conrad |
| ISBN | 0590462067 |
Historical fiction/Children's Literature
Based on a child who actually did travel on the Santa Maria with Columbus. Also clearly based on Columbus's shockingly stupid journal entries.I like reading this with my students while we are learning about Columbus and other European explorers. It...
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| ISBN | 0064403335 |
The inspiring classic that
The
New Yorker
called "an exciting tale [with] top-notch writing," about one girl facing harsh conditions and huge responsibility as she brings her family to the American colonies.
Featuring a heroine with faith, courage, and a great deal of grit, this...
| Author | Julia L. Sauer |
| ISBN | 0140368574 |
Julia L. Sauer's The Light at Tern Rock (which won her a 1952 Newbery Honour designation) really does manage to remind me exceedingly sweetly and much pleasurably of some of L.M. Montgomery's sea and lighthouse themed short stories (featuring not only an engaging and inspiring narrative, but also...
