The Night Journey
10 best books like The Night Journey (Kathryn Lasky): When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, More All-of-a-Kind Family, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, Katie John, Baby Island, Baby Bear Counts One, Spring Pearl: The Last Flower, Waifs and Strays, A Wizard Abroad
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World WarSuppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous...
Author | Sydney Taylor |
ISBN | 0929093100 |
In the third book of Sydney Taylor's classic children's series, Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew. Thus continues the tale of a Jewish family of five sisters-Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie-and little brother, Charlie, living at the turn of the century in...
Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
ISBN | 0690138768 |
Three of a Kind
Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves.They...
Author | Sharyn November |
ISBN | 0142403202 |
Firebirds is more than simply an anthology -- it is a celebration of wonderful writing. It gathers together sixteen original stories by some of today's finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. Together, they have won virtually every major prize -- from the National Book Award to the World Fantasy...
Author | Mary Calhoun |
ISBN | 0060209518 |
Ten-year-old Katie John Tucker did not look forward to the summer she and her parents were to spend in the enormous old house in the small southern town. She hadn't wanted to leave her friends, and she wished that fall would come quickly.But in spite of all her gloomy predictions, Katie John had a wonderful...
Author | Carol Ryrie Brink |
ISBN | 0689717512 |
My wife read this book to me while I was driving on a roadtrip. Her mom had found her childhood copy and sent it to her. It has to be one of the most awesomely bad books ever written. It's intended for children of course, but that doesn't make it any less terrible. It's some screwy adventure tale of two young...
Baby Bear is back in this cozy, counting-themed companion to the celebrated Baby Bear Sees Blue.
Fall has arrived in Baby Bear's forest, and the woods are teeming with animals busily preparing for winter.
How many animals?
Count along from one to ten with Baby Bear as he and...
Author | Laurence Yep |
ISBN | 1584855193 |
After the deaths of her parents, 12-year-old Chou Spring Pearl is taken into the home of her father's wealthy benefactor. Unlike most Cantonese girls, Spring Pearl has learned to read and write, but she must now learn a new skill-how to survive in Master Sung's hostile household. While the Second Opium...
Author | Charles de Lint |
ISBN | 0142401587 |
Charles de Lint's remarkable novels and shorter fiction are, in a very real sense, coming of age stories. Here, for the first time, is a collection of his stories about teenagers&150a collection for teen and adult readers alike. From the streets of his famed Newford to the alleys of Bordertown to...
Author | Diane Duane |
ISBN | 0152055037 |
To give Nita a vacation from magic--and to separate her from Kit, her partner in wizardry--Nita's parents pack her off for a monthlong stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland.
But the Old World is even more steeped in magical doings than the United States, and Nita soon finds herself and a host...
Author | Galen Beckett |
ISBN | 0553807595 |
Her courage saved the country of Altania and earned the love of a hero of the realm. Now sensible Ivy Quent wants only to turn her father’s sprawling, mysterious house into a proper home. But soon she is swept into fashionable society’s highest circles of power—a world that is vital to her family’s...
Author | João Carlos Marinho |
ISBN | 8526010476 |
Este é o livro que inaugurou a turma do gordo. Seu Tomé é um homem bom, proprietário de uma fábrica de figurinhas de futebol. Existem as fáceis e as difíceis, fabricadas em menor quantidade. Quem enche o álbum ganha prêmios realmente bons. Mas surge uma fábrica clandestina que fabrica as figurinhas...