The Pink Motel
10 best books like The Pink Motel (Carol Ryrie Brink): Magic or Not?, Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine, Good Grief...Third Grade, Return to Gone-Away, Henry Reed, Inc., Sawdust in His Shoes, Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet, No Children, No Pets, The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald, Summer at Forsaken Lake
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152511601 |
The magic begins when Laura and her family--brothers James, baby Deborah, and her parents--move to a country house in Connecticut. There is a well in the yard, and Laura is the kind of girl who believes in making wishes.
Her first wish comes true, and this sets off a round of adventures for Laura,...
| Author | Jay Williams |
| ISBN | 0070705208 |
No more homework!
Professor Bullfinch goes off to attend a scientific conference and leaves Danny in charge of his new miniature automatic computer called Minia. Danny calls it a midget giant brain and suddenly comes up with an idea. Could he program Minny to help him do his homework faster?...
| Author | Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna |
| ISBN | 0590451243 |
Our oldest is starting to read longer chapter books, so I've been looking for books that have a third-grade theme (the same grade she's in.) This book has a good message about learning about someone before you judge them, about not blaming someone for stealing (or putting a dead snake in your locker) unless...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0152022635 |
A wish come true. That's what Portia thinks when her parents buy Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along the swampy edge of Gone-Away Lake. A new house is always full of surprises, but Porcia is completely unprepared for the extraordinary things that happen when her family moves into a new...
| Author | Keith Robertson |
| ISBN | 0140341447 |
Henry Reed has arrived in Grover's Corner--and the town will never be the same. While spending the summer with his aunt and uncle, Henry comes up with a sure-fire money-making project: Henry Reed, Inc., Research. Henry's neighbor, Midge Glass, has an even more sure-fire hit: Reed and Glass, Inc. Now...
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
Gorry am I ever a sucker for circus books—and throw in a horse (or two), and I'm sold!
Joe Lang is descended from one of the finest circus families in the world—but his life comes crashing down around him when his lion tamer father dies and the new orphan is stranded in a boy's house in Pineville,...
| Author | Eleanor Cameron |
| ISBN | 0316125415 |
No other Earthlings know the Mushroom Planet like David and Chuck. They have seen the green ball shining in the vast black of outer space. And they have walked in its giant mushroom forests.
Now they are going back. The flight is top secret. But someone's found out, and stowed away on the space...
| Author | Marion Holland |
| ISBN | 0394914473 |
This was a cute story (from a simpler time) about a family that moves into an inherited apartment building and goes to work fixing it up, and trying to solve a few mysteries in the process.
Sonlight includes it as a kindergarten read-aloud, but I think we'll play it by ear -- it was a fine story, but...
Whenever Alvin's Magnificent Brain kicks into action, it's time to watch out! For Alvin is always thinking up another marvelous invention. Maybe it's the Foolproof Burglar Alarm for his bedroom door, or a Sure Shot Paper Slinger for delivering newspapers from his bike. But there's no doubt about it,...
| Author | Michael D. Beil |
| ISBN | 0375867422 |
With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas is right at home in the country: he learns to sail,...
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0670413992 |
Today I read The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden. It is one of those books that has been languishing in my “to read” pile.
Initially, I picked up Shopaholic & Baby, which has been neglected while I finished my paper. However, within the first few pages, Becky Bloomwood was back to her...
| 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...
| Author | Jill Paton Walsh |
| ISBN | 0613070631 |
"A parcel of patterns brought the plague to Eyam. A parcel sent up from London to George Vicars, a journeyman tailor, who was lodging with Mrs. Cooper in a cottage by the west end of the churchyard.
So begins Mall Percival's account of how her village of Eyam struggled against the plague. George...
Swamp Monsters Don't Chase Wild Turkeys
| Author | Debbie Dadey |
| ISBN | 0439333385 |
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How Spider Saved Halloween
| Author | Robert Kraus |
| ISBN | 0590421174 |
I remember way back when, reading this book to my elementary school library classes and the kids just loving it.
Spider is having a meltdown because every costume he creates cannot cover up the fact that well, he is ..... Spider. Discouraged and needing some friendly help and advice as what to...
Mystery on the Isle of Skye
| Author | Phyllis A. Whitney |
| ISBN | 0449703649 |
Following instructions contained in the pating gift from her Grandmother when she set out for Isle Of Skye, would lead to startling surprises for Cathy MacLeod. She and her standoffish cousin Don, would be drawn in a search for answers to baffling puzzles. New friends and thrilling adventures wait...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0440428653 |
Third in the 'Gemma' series, the newer editions have changed the title to 'Gemma the Star'.
This story involves Gemma starting to train at a local drama school, only to be offered a film role as ‘Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm’. Lydia, meanwhile, disobeys her ballet teacher and has to suffer...
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| ISBN | 9992829362 |
Published ahead of my time, "The Ghost Of Windy Hill" has remained among my possessions since I was about age 7. Having transitioned to "Nancy Drew", Laura Ingalls Wilder, and V.C Andrews a few years thereafter; I’m puzzled by 20 year-olds sticking to 'young adult' material! I must have been enchanted...
