The Great Wall Of China
10 best books like The Great Wall Of China (Leonard Everett Fisher): The Year of Miss Agnes, Archaeologists Dig for Clues, Understood Betsy, Sticks Across the Chimney: A Story of Denmark, The Year of the Baby, Red Sails to Capri, A Grain of Rice, Greek Myths For Young Children, George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans, Little Pear
| Author | Kirkpatrick Hill |
| ISBN | 0689851243 |
A year they'll never forget
Ten-year-old Frederika (Fred for short) doesn't have much faith that the new teacher in town will last very long. After all, they never do. Most teachers who come to their one-room schoolhouse in remote, Alaska leave at the first smell of fish, claiming that life there...
| Author | Kate Duke |
| ISBN | 0064451755 |
This book provides an engaging and informative look at how archaeologists work, as a few schoolchildren work with an archaeologist named Sofie to look for artifacts in the remains of an Archaic-era settlement.
I like how this book makes archaeology look exciting, but also focuses on the scientific...
| Author | Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
| ISBN | 1887840133 |
For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to her "horrid Putney cousins." But when her aunt can no longer care for her, Elizabeth Ann must leave her sheltered life to live in the wilds of Vermont with those distant relatives.
In the beginning,...
| Author | Nora Burglon |
| ISBN | 1892857138 |
I read this aloud to my daughter, and we all fell in love with it. This book is another example of a book I would have never picked up if it wasn't for being a part of the homeschool curriculum we use. It was delightful to step back in time to a different country and see what it was like to live as a child at the end...
| Author | Andrea Cheng |
| ISBN | 0547910673 |
Last year, Anna learned how to be a good friend. Now that her family has adopted a baby girl from China, she wants to learn how to be a good sister. But the new year proves challenging when the doctor warns that the baby isn’t thriving. Can Anna and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project...
| Author | Ann Weil |
| ISBN | 0140328580 |
The minute he saw the boat with the red sails moving into the harbor, Michele knew that something exciting was going to happen. It was the biggest and most beautiful ship fourteen-year-old Michele had ever seen. Sailing on the ship were three men who would come to stay at Michele's parents' inn. The men...
| Author | Helena Clare Pittman |
When a humble farmer named Pong Lo asks for the hand of the Emperor's beautiful daughter, the Emperor is enraged. Who ever heard of a peasant marrying a princess? But Pong Lo is wiser than the Emperor knows. And when he concocts a potion that saves the Princess's life, the Emperor gladly offers him any reward...
| Author | Heather Amery |
| ISBN | 0746037252 |
4 stars
One of very many children’s books on Greek mythology, I picked this one up mainly because it’s Usborne (I grew up on Usborne books and I have a certain amount of loyalty to them despite the fact that they keep putting out gendered shit like this) and because the pictures inside...
| Author | Janet Benge |
| ISBN | 1576581454 |
This series chronicles the exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories of ordinary men and women whose trust in God accomplished extraordinary exploits for His kingdom and glory. Each inspiring account of a man or woman who answered God s call is a testimony to a real-life adventure of...
| Author | Eleanor Frances Lattimore |
| ISBN | 0152055029 |
Little Pear is a young boy who lives in a small village in China. Although his story takes place long ago, he is much like any little boy today--always on the lookout for excitement and adventure!
Little Pear is just looking for fun, but he has a knack for finding trouble without even trying! Join...
| Author | Elizabeth Yates |
| ISBN | 0890847061 |
Now while I have indeed quite enjoyed much (if not the majority) of Elizabeth Yates' 1943 Newbery Honour winning Mountain Born, I do have to admit that whenever I read this novel, I always have to wonder and ask myself why Biddy the sheep (the black ewe rescued by Peter and Peter's mother as a sickly, almost...
| Author | Henry Winterfeld |
| ISBN | 0152162801 |
In these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure.
Yes, Rufus wrote CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL on his tablet at school, but no, he did not break into the...
| Author | Rutherford G. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0802773885 |
Newbery Honor Book, 1950
When Jerome Kildee built his little house against the giant redwood, he had fancied himself a philosopher. He was going to be a hermit—a lazy recluse who didn't have to work or think.
Now here he was facing a crisis that needed immediate attention. At least...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0440419603 |
Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining “absolutely true” stories.
There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school...
