The Half-a-Moon Inn
10 best books like The Half-a-Moon Inn (Paul Fleischman): A Taste of Blackberries, Marven of the Great North Woods, Among the Dolls, Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy, My Daniel, Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story to Make You Squirm, The Wretched Stone, Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, The Bears' House, The Last Treasure
| Author | Doris Buchanan Smith |
What do you do without
your best friend?
Jamie isn't afraid of anything. Always ready to get into trouble, then right back out of it, he's a fun and exasperating best friend.
But when something terrible happens to Jamie, his best friend has to face the tragedy alone. Without Jamie,...
This is a wonderful picture book. It is a bit long, so I'd recommend for ages 5 and up. But it succeeds in a tough genre for children's books - period non-fiction.
It's a story of a 10-year-old, Marven, who is sent away from his family during the flu epidemic of 1918. He leaves Duluth and goes to a logging...
| Author | William Sleator |
| ISBN | 0765352397 |
A dark awakening . . .
When her parents give her a gloomy old dollhouse for her birthday instead of the ten speed bike she's expecting, Vicky is disappointed. But she soon becomes fascinated by the small shadowy world and its inhabitants. The hours she spends playing with the dolls is a good way to escape...
Any person who leaves the country to go to another and later returns will be put to death. This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help support his family, was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland, he was heartbroken to...
| Author | Pam Conrad |
| ISBN | 0064403092 |
"All I want to find is one dinosaur," Daniel was saying. "And I'll find it right here. Like I do all my fossils." Wandering through the Natural History Museum with her grandchildren, Julia Creath feels the presence of her dead brother, Daniel, she remembers a time when fossil fever hit everyone, old and...
| Author | Lynne Reid Banks |
| ISBN | 0006751970 |
Read to my daughters - ages 4 & 6. They both quite liked it. Nearly every chapter ended with a cliffhanger of sorts and it drove my daughters crazy when I put down the book without reading "one more chapter!"
As a child, I spent a couple of years living in a tropical country with poisonous centipedes....
| Author | Chris Van Allsburg |
| ISBN | 0395533074 |
The Wretched Stone is an interesting, somewhat spooky picture book. It is narrated by a sailor via his personal diary. He and his crew are sailing in the ocean, and they come across an uncharted island. This island bears no fruit, no drinkable water, and no life whatsoever, but they do find a curious, glowing...
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0763625620 |
George Frideric Handel was not your everyday eighteenth-century composer. And in a manner befitting its subject, this witty, rigorously researched, and accessible biography captures Handel's essential spirit — from a child who smuggled a clavichord into the attic to make music against his father's...
| Author | Marilyn Sachs |
| ISBN | 0140383212 |
Everybody in Fran Ellen’s class knows her name. They know that she sucks her thumb and that she smells bad. But they don’t really know anything important about her.
They don’t know that she lives in two houses. One is with her brothers and sisters and sick mother. There is no father in that house,...
| Author | Janet S. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0439707846 |
For thirteen-year-old Ellsworth, family has always been just him and his dad. That's all Ellsworth thought he wanted. But then the dreams start. Dreams of houses surrounding a beautiful green square. Suddenly a letter arrives, inviting Ellsworth to a home he doesn't remember: the Square in Smith...
| Author | Robert Burch |
| ISBN | 0140345345 |
This book is a re-read from my childhood. I actually understand the book much better about a quarter century later. I can see why Ida Early is the Mary Poppins of the mountains in Georgia during the Depression. Ida Early comes to the Sutton house the summer after the mother died to take care of the house and...
On a cold gray morning in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool tugging at the udder of an obstinate cow. When she spilled the milk, she was brought before the court for stealing. Because she could read, Molly escaped the typicalpunishment of death on the gallows. At the age of seventeen, the English dairymaid...
| Author | Carol Otis Hurst |
| ISBN | 0060294035 |
Some people collect stamps. Other people collect coins. Carol Otis Hurst's father collected rocks. Nobody ever thought his obsession would amount to anything. They said, "You've got rocks in your head" and "There's no money in rocks." But year after year he kept on collecting, trading, displaying,...
| Author | William Miller |
| ISBN | 1880000881 |
As a young black man in the segregated South of the 1920s, Wright was hungry to explore new worlds through books, but was forbidden from borrowing them from the library. This touching account tells of his love of reading, and how his unwavering perseverance, along with the help of a co-worker, came together...
| Author | Louise Borden |
| ISBN | 0689845022 |
"You're a strong skater, Piet, and you have a quick mind. This is why I know you'll succeed in this important task. I wouldn't ask you to do this if I didn't know it could be done."
In 1941 Piet, a young Dutch boy from Sluis, gets the assignment of a lifetime: He must skate along the frozen canals of...
I enjoyed reading this book. This book is about a boy who lives with his grandpa because both of his parents passed away. One night he is out by the shore and sees a mermaid. He does not tell his grandpa about it because he knows that he won't believe him. He decides to go back to the shore to see if he can see the...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0440408091 |
Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.
Journey searches photographs for answers. He hunts family resemblances in Grandma's albums....
| Author | Robert Newton Peck |
| ISBN | 0394927001 |
When it came to getting the two of us in trouble, Soup was a regular genius....Soup was my best pal. His real and righteous name was Luther Wesley Vinson, but nobody called him Luther. He didn't like it. I called him Luther just once, which promoted Soup to break me of a very bad habit before it really got formed....
| Author | Stephen Manes |
| ISBN | 0440227909 |
I made sure this was fiction before checking it out from my library when I was a kid. Even then I was wary of self-help books making specious claims. :)
This is about a kid named Milo who is intrigued by the title of a book called Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days. He's got a lot of problems at home...
| Author | Vera W. Propp |
| ISBN | 0698118812 |
I rated this a book a 5. Why? you may ask well, it's about this boy named Henk and he was Jewish so he was hidden in a farm when the Nazi soldiers came. He was living with some family he knew and loved until this man and women came to get him and told him they were there real parents, Henk was so confused. Then Henk...
| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0679891013 |
I hunted down for this book. While fixing all the childrens books I had when I was young, all I could think of was finding this one. I was so saddened when I found out I didn't have it! I asked my friends, but none seemed to have kept theirs! I went to the National Bookstore in Greenhills and lo and behold! I found...
| Author | Jolly Roger Bradfield |
| ISBN | 1930900309 |
Pickle-Chiffon Pie is a story without a villain. No fighting, no bloodshed, but still exciting and fast-moving. It is a tale that stretches the imagination: the reader must accept a juggling lion (six cans of root beer at once!) and a sixteen-foot Gazoo. Not a hard assignment for a child, but perhaps...
| Author | Peg Kehret |
| ISBN | 0671034162 |
Some good comes of every difficulty. Sometimes a book enters your life and leaves such a profound impact, you remember reading it like it was yesterday when it in fact you read it decades ago. Did I mention this is my favorite book in the entire world? No book has managed to replace it.This book started my...
| Author | M.R. James |
| ISBN | 1438504292 |
M R James (1862 1936) was a writer and British medieval scholar. His well-known classic ghost stories have a Victorian Christmas theme. Although James is best known for his ghost stories, he produced many excellent scholarly works. He is also credited with cataloging libraries at Oxford and Cambridge....
