The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
10 best books like The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (Patricia C. McKissack): The Blue Cat of Castle Town, The Jumping-Off Place, What Hearts, Somewhere in the Darkness, Graven Images, Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount Saint Helens, When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories, Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America, Crazy Lady!, Hurry Home, Candy
| Author | Catherine Cate Coblentz |
| ISBN | 0914378058 |
You're probably wondering why this book was awarded the Newbery Honor. It's obviously not very popular at all - less than 100 people have rated it! That should tell you something, right?
Wrong. I thought so, too, until I actually tried it for myself.
This is the story of a blue cat who...
| Author | Marian Hurd McNeely |
| ISBN | 0979894042 |
This book follows the story of Becky (17), Dick (15), Phil (10) and Joan (8) Linville as they leave behind their home in Platteville, Wisconsin to homestead out in South Dakota in 1910. Their beloved Uncle Jim squatted the claim last fall, before his untimely death, and the children are determined to...
| Author | Bruce Brooks |
| ISBN | 0064471276 |
Recipient of a 1993 Newbery Honor, this novel is an achingly beautiful, powerfully rendered journey through childhood that is not to be missed, now available in a new edition with a striking new cover.
“From an outstandingly perceptive writer, a moving portrait of a boy, observed at four...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0439523567 |
An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.
Jimmy hasn't seen his father in nine years. But one day he comes back -- on the run from the law. Together, the two of them...
| Author | Paul Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0763627755 |
Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.
Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images...
| Author | Patricia Lauber |
| ISBN | 0689716796 |
May 18, 1980, 8:32 A.M.: An earthquake suddenly triggered an avalanche on Mount St. Helens, a volcano in southern Washington State. Minutes later, Mount St. Helens blew the top off its peak and exploded into the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history.
What caused the eruption?...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0374383162 |
"In our time, when literature is losing its address and the telling of stories is becoming a forgotten art, children are the best readers."
—When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw & Other Stories, from the Foreward
I have to admit, Isaac Bashevis Singer really has a way with folk tale humor....
I did not read every word. It is very readable, but there was too much history (compared to the Guide as promised in the title) in it for me. The illustrations were great, esp. of the actually tools and gear. Now, I wouldn't necessarily object to all that text of Westward Ho, but too much of it was written in...
| Author | Jane Leslie Conly |
| ISBN | 0064405710 |
I am reading books from the ALA’s most challenged list. I checked off all the books I have already read (although I plan to go back and read some) and now I am working through the part of the list I am interested in reading. I went through the list in my school library and grabbed this one. I finished it this...
| Author | Meindert DeJong |
| ISBN | 0064400255 |
Enjoyed on openlibrary.org.
Didn't feel a lot of depth. Some insights are nice, though. such as the description of Candy learning to play for the first time as a grown dog, how he took it so seriously.
The pictures by Sendak didn't quite reveal his genius, imo, but they are enjoyable....
| Author | Marguerite de Angeli |
| ISBN | 0856860824 |
Vikings & Scotland in the 10th century.
"Now we shall go a-Viking," Harald Redbeard announced, and so it was that Kan and Brus, Harald's twin sons, found themselves on the dragon-prowed Raven of the Wind, its striped sails set for England. But storms, ancient enemies of the sea-faring...
| Author | Mari Sandoz |
| ISBN | 0803291604 |
Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leaving the world of a Cheyenne tribe in the 1830s, she creates a youthful protagonist many readers will recognize in themselves. Young Elk is expected to be...
| Author | Caroline Dale Snedeker |
| ISBN | 9997489179 |
Chloe, the young daughter of a noble Roman man, has been lost to her father, and has spent her life unknown to him, as a slave on one of his own villas. Cruelly treated, and with no hope of freedom, her only escape is into the stories of her Grecian mother's home town of Eresos, as told to her by Melissa, a fellow-slave...
| Author | Mavis Jukes |
| ISBN | 0440421225 |
This is a brief story about an episode in the life of Alex and his stepfather, Jake. The two are not close, and a wolf spider on the porch brings them both the opportunity to start building a relationship. Since the story is so short, there is much left out. And the episode with the spider can read like slapstick....
Prolific children's author Kathryn Lasky tells the story of sugaring season - that "time between the seasons... when winter seems tired and spring is only a hoped for thing" - in this beautifully-written work of picture-book non-fiction. Her lyrical but informative text is paired with her husband...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0152387420 |
I read this book of creation stories and cosmogonies from around the world out-loud to my 8-year-old daughter to try and balance out the Christian stories that she is deluged by in American culture. Many children have no idea that predominant western religions did not develop in a vacuum, but are threads...
| Author | Sorche Nic Leodhas |
| ISBN | 0370010663 |
A collection of ten Scottish legends passed down through the ages Scottish culture is rich with mythology. There are tales of monks and saints, fairies and witches, kings, nobles, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Some stories were never written down, shared instead through retellings...
| Author | Mary Stolz |
| ISBN | 0064400093 |
A poor family finds that yet again their Dad has lost his job. Dad dreams of being an artist and borrows a corner of his friends studio, where he can be a Sunday painter and paint a portrait of his employer. Mr Davis finds it hard to keep a job he hates, Mrs Davis works and has to leave the youngest with someone...
| Author | Miska Miles |
| ISBN | 0316571202 |
Summary:
Annie is a young Navajo girl who lives with her mother, father, and grandmother. Grandmother announces one day that she will be rejoining Mother Earth as soon as she finishes weaving her Navajo rug. Annie, distraught at the impending reality of life without Grandmother, begins to sabotage...
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0395845203 |
I loved this book.
Since Eleanor's life was quite complex and complicated, I would think it a challenge to present her life to young readers, yet Freedman narrates with both a look at the failures and successes of arguably the first "working" first lady. Personally I am drawn to this book since...
