The Birthday Ball
9 best books like The Birthday Ball (Lois Lowry): Talking to Dragons, Forest Born, The Amaranth Enchantment, Jane of Lantern Hill, Enchanted, Stone Soup, The Girls, Chicken Said "Cluck!" (My First I Can Read), Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 0152046917 |
Always be polite to dragons!
That's what Daystar's mother taught him...and it's a very wise lesson--one that might just help him after his mom hands him a magic sword and kicks him out of the house. Especially because his house sits on the edge of the Enchanted Forest and his mother is Queen Cimorene.
But...
| Author | Shannon Hale |
| ISBN | 1599901676 |
Rin has always been a quiet, helpful girl, but a secret has been eating away at her, and the solace Rin once could find among the tall trees surrounding her forest home has vanished. When she leaves home to join her older brother in the city, she finds intriguing answers to her questions, an adventure she...
| Author | Julie Berry |
| ISBN | 1599903342 |
When Lucinda Chapdelaine was a small child, her parents left for the royal ball and never returned. Ever since, Lucinda has been stuck in perpetual servitude at her evil aunt's jewelry store. Then, on the very same day, a mysterious visitor and an even more bizarre piece of jewelry both enter the shop,...
For as long as she could remember, Jane Stuart and her mother lived with her grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead until she accidentally learned he was alive and well and living on Prince Edward Island. When Jane spends the summer at his cottage on Lantern...
| Author | Alethea Kontis |
| ISBN | 0547645708 |
It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.
When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories,...
| Author | Marcia Brown |
| ISBN | 0689878362 |
As someone who generally likes and actually much prefers lushly coloured and hued illustrations, I was not expecting to enjoy Marcia Brown's version of the European folktale of Stone Soup as much as I have. The illustrations really are wonderful (attention to detail, captured movement, realistic...
| Author | Amy Goldman Koss |
| ISBN | 0142300330 |
Maya has been part of the group ever since the day Candace asked her if she wanted to "do lunch" in the cafeteria. Yet when Candace suddenly deems her unworthy, Maya's so-called friends just blow her off. While Maya just wants the girls back like they used to be, she knows that can never happen-because whatever...
Chicken Said "Cluck!" (My First I Can Read)
| Author | Judyann Ackerman Grant |
| ISBN | 0060287233 |
"Shoo!" said Earl.
"Shoo! Shoo!" said Pearl.
"Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!" said Chicken.
Earl and Pearl are planting pumpkins. Chicken wants to help. But it seems like the only thing Chicken is good at is getting in the way.
Then grasshoppers invade the pumpkin patch,...
Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 1627793240 |
Twelve-year-old Stevie's world changes drastically when her parents are tragically killed and she is forced to live with her estranged grandfather at his run-down motel. After failed attempts to connect with her grandfather, Stevie befriends the colorful motel tenants and neighbors. Together,...
