The Keeping Days
10 best books like The Keeping Days (Norma Johnston): A Room Made of Windows, The Young Unicorns, Love Is One of the Choices, The Ghosts, Sue Barton, Visiting Nurse, Time at the Top, The Listeners, To Take A Dare, Frontier Wolf, Henry Reed's Journey
| Author | Eleanor Cameron |
| ISBN | 0316125237 |
It's a remarkable sensation to go back to a book that meant a lot to you as a child and wonder if the story and characters helped shape you in some way, or if you were already that way and it simply resonated with who you were then. I'm not sure which it was, but I know I read this several times, and as many of the...
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0440999197 |
My L'Engle reviews seem to have a theme: complaining noises followed by assertions why said complaints are meaningless in view of the whole, and a reference to love as the universal solvent. This book is no different.
I'm unable to keep from rolling my eyes when Rob, age 7, pipes up with a malapropism...
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0449702731 |
WHEN YOU'RE NEITHER A GIRL NOR A WOMAN...
Maggie and Caroline are both seniors in high school and suddenly everything that seemed simple has become complicated. Thinking about sex, wondering about college, planning for careers -- there are so many choices.
Maggie is brilliant and very...
| Author | Antonia Barber |
| ISBN | 0671707140 |
When Lucy sat in the attic, she thought she heard the sound of voices calling...
That's when she started to believe the rumors in the village that the old house was haunted. But no ghosts appeared - until the day Lucy and her brother Jamie stood in the garden and watched two pale figures, a girl and a boy,...
Sue Barton, Visiting Nurse
| Author | Helen Dore Boylston |
| ISBN | 0451131592 |
A good piece of my enjoyment of this book is nostalgia, I know. (Along with a recognition of where I got writing habits, like the dash. All over early 1900s literature, British and American alike.) This is not a great work. But:There were only general impressions at first: the black line of tenement roofs...
| Author | Edward Ormondroyd |
| ISBN | 1930900198 |
It's strange enough when Susan Shaw disappears without a trace on a wintry March afternoon. It's stranger still when her uninformative note is found in the hallway of her apartment building, along with a black cat that no one has seen before. And it's strangest of all when she suddenly appears again,...
For fifty years Project scientists had listened from their backwater Puerto Rican outpost for some sign of other intelligent life in the universe. In 2025, a Message from Capella was received! And suddenly, Robert MacDonald, Project Director, faced one of mankind's greatest challenges. He had to...
| Author | Crescent Dragonwagon |
| ISBN | 0553238647 |
I'm going to be honest with you: at least 60% of the reason I read this is because of its author's cracktastic pen name. In combination with the paperback's cover, the book summary, and a co-writing credit with established YA author Paul Zindel, it absolutely sounds like a 19-year-old human disaster...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0140314725 |
A.D. 349
Alexios Flavius Aquila is an excellent swordsman but an immature military leader. A disastrous decision nearly gets him discharged from the Roman army, but his high-ranking uncle begrudgingly pulls some strings, and well-meaning-but-inept Alexios is transferred instead.
The...
| Author | Keith Robertson |
| ISBN | 0140341455 |
This book took me back to the old Wonderful World of Disney TV show, with their travel documentaries that took us through the Southwest, and so many movies that starred a singer or personality, with Disneyland as supporting actor. All the tropes are here: Chinatown, Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, the...
| Author | Carolyn Haywood |
| ISBN | 0152051015 |
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.
Third grade begins with...
| Author | Ruth Doan MacDougall |
| ISBN | 0966335201 |
First published in 1973 and 1974 by Putnam and Bantam, The
Cheerleader was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, optioned by Twentieth Century-Fox, made into an NBC sitcom pilot, and became a best-seller beloved by generations of readers.
p/pThe reprint of this classic coming-of-age novel...
| Author | Mary Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0064400301 |
I think this is my favorite of the Katie John books just because she is struggling with such an identifiable struggle: growing into a young lady but not wanting to act like everyone else who had turned unrecognizable and boy crazy. I think just hearing me read it might have made my daughters feel better...
Reread for the umpteenth time, because I'm wretchedly ill and in need of a comfort read. This is the coziest book, filled with hikes in the snowy woods, fudge-making, cats, sweet gingham dresses, mothers who greet you after school with fresh chocolate cake, and skating parties. I wish Catherine Woolley's...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0590438247 |
From Dull to Dangerous???
Adam is so cute. And his locker is right next to hers. But how can Maddy Kemper, self-labelled Mouse, get him to notice her?
Why, with the help of that best-selling new book, Seven Days to a Brand-New You. In just seven days, Maddy is determined to go from dull...
Underfoot in Show Business
| Author | Helene Hanff |
| ISBN | 1559210176 |
Helene Hanff recalls her ingenuous attempts to crash Broadway in the early forties.
Full of gentle humor as Helene relates the ups and downs of life in the theaters.
For many years Helene struggled to pay the rent and struggled just to have a place to rent.
A real rags to rags...
| Author | Jean Little |
| ISBN | 0670875937 |
An inspiring story of self discovery. In Jean Little's first historical novel, Elspet Mary, a young Scottish orphan, embarks on the journey of a lifetime when she emigrates with relatives to Canada in the 1840s. Her struggle to make a place for herself, not only in her adoptive family but in her new home...
British Flash: A revealing collection of short LGBT fiction
Enjoy this entertaining collection of flash fiction stories, and their short and sweet expression of what it means to be queer in Britain, past and present. All these stories reflect the iconic sights and national character of the British Isles: a taste of our idiosyncrasies and eccentricities, but...
| Author | Lynn Johnston |
| ISBN | 0836218760 |
In this collection, Elly, who is juggling a new job, the adolescent traumas of Michael and now Elizabeth, plus the usual housework woes, finds out she is pregnant!! The shock finally wears off and the family deals with the idea of another person in their household. Then one stormy night baby April is born...
Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Memorial Day Fire
Sleepyside’s annual Memorial Day parade is interrupted when a fire starts a few blocks away from Main Street. When Trixie’s friend’s father is accused of burning down his own store, Trixie knows she must solve the crime.
This is the first of the rarer final five in the series. Some fans...
