The Princess in the Pigpen
10 best books like The Princess in the Pigpen (Jane Resh Thomas): International Velvet, The Lake at the End of the World, Three Lives to Live, My Enemy, the Queen, Good-Bye Pink Pig, Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons, Seaward, Odder Than Ever, A Toad for Tuesday, The Dragonling
| Author | Bryan Forbes |
| ISBN | 0434268305 |
For a long time I had no idea this was a book, and my surprise and elation were fantastically high when I found out. I ordered it IMMEDIATELY. As a life-long devotee/worshipper of International Velvet, I couldn't resist. This movie was my childhood.
1. The summary sucks.
2. It's essentially...
| Author | Caroline MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0803706502 |
A story of two very different people living two very different lives, in a world forever changed by greed and pollution. This delightful story is told from the perspective of Diana and Hector.
Diana lives with her mother and crippled father and Hector lives with a community underground and...
| Author | Anne Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0316526282 |
I FOUND IT!
For years, I have thought about this book from time to time. I vividly recalled reading a really good book, narrated by a girl living with her grandmother and involving time travel down a laundry chute. I had no idea what the title was or who the author was, so I despaired of ever finding...
| Author | Victoria Holt |
| ISBN | 0449202399 |
The court of Elizabeth I from another viewpoint. Interesting read, I was fascinated to learn more about Lettice Knowles. From previous books I have read about the period, I had heard Lettice's name occasionally, and knew there was some speculation about whether or not Henry VIII fathered her mother...
| Author | C.S. Adler |
| ISBN | 0380701758 |
Ten-year-old Amanda is small, quiet and colorless. She knows that she's a disappointment to her elegant, ambitious mother who focuses all her attention on Amanda's charming older brother, Dale. Her mother is obsessed with getting Dale into an Ivy League college, although Dale protests that neither...
| Author | Rose Estes |
| ISBN | 0880380217 |
Forced into a duel of wizards at the mysterious Rainbow Castle, you are magically separated from your teacher and grandfather, Pentegarn, who battles for his life against three evil wizards. You must get back to him!
The paths you may take are many and the choices are yours!
Will you...
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 0020421907 |
His name is West. Her name is Cally. They speak different languages and come from different countries thousands of miles apart, but they do not know that. What they do know are the tragedies that took their parents, then wrenched the two of them out of reality, into a strange and perilous world through...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0152024654 |
Beloved for his hilarious and unexpectedly moving novels, Bruce Coville is also a master of the short story. In this follow-up to Oddly Enough, he again presents a collection of unusual breadth and emotional depth. A ghost who died under uproarious circumstances haunts a kitchen baking “Biscuits...
| Author | Russell E. Erickson |
| ISBN | 0688163254 |
A Toad for Tuesday is one of four books we picked up on our trip to Oregon back in February. As Sean is enamored with owls we both agreed this looked like a good book for him. I was immediately drawn to it for Lawrence di Fiori's illustrations. They are reminisicent of Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad series and...
| Author | Jackie French Koller |
| ISBN | 0671867903 |
Dragonquest!
Darek can't wait for his first Dragonquest. Then he can be just like his older brother, Clep, the hero who brought down a Great Blue, the largest and fiercest dragon of all. Darek goes to admire the kill -- and finds a dragonling peeking out of the giant dragon's pouch. Scared but curious,...
| Author | Lorna Hill |
| ISBN | 0330338714 |
Fans of Sebastian and Veronica (see A Dream of Sadler's Wells and Veronica at Sadler's Wells) will love this story about Caroline, Veronica's loyal younger cousin. Back in Northumberland, Caroline has been working on her dancing, hoping to emulate Veronica's success. In the meantime, she has also...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0140371516 |
GAAAAHHHH … Okay, it was driving me crazy trying to remember what this book was called. My third or fourth grade teacher read it to us … maybe more than one teacher read it. I don't remember. I loved this book, though––a very sweet story about how, before he turns back into a person, the frog prince...
| Author | Karen Harper |
| ISBN | 0312993498 |
The vibrant pageant of Elizabethan England comes vividly alive in Karen Harper's fifth novel in her acclaimed Elizabeth I mystery series. In the gardens of Hampton Court, Elizabeth proudly shows a famed visitor her huge maze. But the intricate labyrinth soon becomes a scene of horror as Elizabeth...
| Author | Sylvia Waugh |
| ISBN | 0380725843 |
Sixteen-year-old Pilbeam may have made a terrible mistake. Living with her large family at 5 Brocklehurst Grove is wonderful in many ways, but remaining isolated from the rest of the world has become too much to bear. So Pilbeam decides that, whatever the consequences, she will go to the theater, and...
| Author | Ruth Park |
| ISBN | 0140378154 |
Another marvellous book by Ruth Park - what a writer.
Being a book for children it has a sort of positive ending, though not without loss, but this was published in 1986, and I can't help thinking (especially after watching David Attenborough's update on Climate Change last night on the BBC)...
