The Middle Passage
6 best books like The Middle Passage (Julia Golding): Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady, Toby's Room, Arrow, Shark In The Park, The Violin of Auschwitz, The Wrong Foot
Author | Samuel Richardson |
ISBN | 0140432159 |
Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage...
Author | Pat Barker |
ISBN | 0385524366 |
From Booker Prize winner Pat Barker, a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of the Great War. Admirers of her Regeneration Trilogy as well as fans of Downton Abbey and War Horse
will be enthralled.
With Toby’s Room, a sequel to her widely praised previous novel Life...
The exposition for race in this book is literally the best I've ever seen it. This is a book with a black female protagonist with an interracial romance. I really did not appreciate this diversity when I was 11 but now. Oh man. It's so good.
I also like the slightly religious moral undertones of...
Author | Nick Sharratt |
ISBN | 0552549770 |
Shark in the park is a story about a boy named Timothy Pope who is testing out his new toy a telescope in the park. He looks up, he looks down, he looks right and then left with his telescope and then he thinks he sees a shark….is it a shark? Or is it something else?
This is an enjoyable story with allot of...
Author | Maria Àngels Anglada |
ISBN | 0553807781 |
An international sensation now available in English for the first time, The Violin of Auschwitz is the unforgettable story of one man’s refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history’s greatest atrocity.
In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelously...
Sophia has no desire to be a princess. She'd rather be a scholar and never marry at all. However, the prince comes looking for the woman who fits the slipper she left behind at the ball quite determined to marry her. Since he was too busy looking at her bosom to glance at her face, the glass slipper she left...