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10 best books like The Racketty-Packetty House (Frances Hodgson Burnett): Newsgirl, A House Is a House for Me, Gwinna, The Monster Garden, Daisy Dawson Is on Her Way!, Liberty Porter, First Daughter, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, The Lonely Doll, The Marble Queen, Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia

Newsgirl
AuthorLiza Ketchum
ISBN0670011193
It's the spring of 1851 and San Francisco is booming. Twelve-year-old Amelia Forrester has just arrived with her family and they are eager to make a new life in Phoenix City. But the mostly male town is not that hospitable to females and Amelia decides she'll earn more money as a boy. Cutting her hair and...
A House Is a House for Me
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
ISBN0140503943
In a rollicking rhyme, the author introduces us to all types of homes for both people and animals. The poem engages in flights of fancy - what about a husk being a house for an ear of corn, or a throat being a house for a hum? "And once you get started in thinking this way,/ It seems that whatever you see/ Is either...
Gwinna
AuthorBarbara Helen Berger
A stunning book that has stayed with me ever since my 5th/6th grade teacher read it aloud to us. The story was so moving to me as a child, and after briefly forgetting about it as an adult, I suddenly had something tickle my memory and then became absolutely determined to find it to share with my then 5 year...
The Monster Garden
AuthorVivien Alcock
ISBN0618003371
Frankie isn't exactly sure what her scientist dad does in his top-secret laboratory, but her neighbors tease her that it must be something awful -- like developing germ warfare. So when Frankie's older brother steals a bit of mysterious goo from their father's lab, she makes sure she gets some to conduct...
Daisy Dawson Is on Her Way!
AuthorSteve Voake
ISBN0763637408
Imagine if you woke up one day and found you could talk to animals! A lighthearted tale with lots of appeal for early chapter-book readers.

Even though Daisy Dawson is late for school — again — she can’t help but stop to free a butterfly trapped in a web. And when she does, something amazing...
Liberty Porter, First Daughter
AuthorJulia DeVillers
ISBN1416991263
Meet Liberty Porter.

She's a regular nine-year-old girl with a lot going on. First of all, her dad has just started a new job. And she has to move to a house in a new city. Oh, and the really big thing? Her dad? His new job is president of the United States. That's right. So the house is the White House,...
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
AuthorRumer Godden
ISBN1405088567
This book helped me through one of the hardest times in my childhood.

Long story, but when we emigrated from Canada to New Zealand, we shifted around a little bit before moving to the Eastern Suburbs of Auckland. At school, once the novelty of having a foreigner in their midst wore off, I just didn't...
The Lonely Doll
AuthorDare Wright
ISBN0395899265
Once there was a little doll. Her name was Edith. She lived in a nice house and had everything she needed except someone to play with. She was lonely! Then one morning Edith looked into the garden and there stood two bears! Since it was first published in 1957, The Lonely Doll has established itself as a unique...
The Marble Queen
AuthorStephanie J. Blake
ISBN0761462279
Freedom Jane McKenzie isn’t good at following the rules. She doesn’t like any of the things that girls are supposed to like. She’s good at fishing, getting into trouble—and playing marbles. All she wants is to enter the marble competition at the Autumn Jubilee and show the boys in the neighborhood...
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia
AuthorPalmer Brown
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer...
The Wizard in the Tree
AuthorLloyd Alexander
Basic plot: Mallory frees a wizard from being trapped in a tree, antics ensue.

I like this book more for a funny thing that happened to me than for the content. The book was good- a cute, little fantasy story- but nothing that'll really be remembered over time the way The Chronicles of Narnia or...
Twig
AuthorElizabeth Orton Jones
ISBN1930900058
Had you heard of Elizabeth Orton Jones before seeing this book? If so, your familiarity was probably with her lovely illustrations in Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field, which won the 1945 Caldecott Medal as the year's most distinguished picture book. Elizabeth Orton Jones is an exceptional artist,...
Sophie Simon Solves Them All
AuthorLisa Graff
ISBN0374371253
For a third-grader, Sophie Simon is one smart cookie. She enjoys teaching herself advanced calculus and has performed successful heart surgery on an earthworm. She's also very clever when it comes to dealing with her clueless parents. But Sophie is no genius when it comes to calculating the high value...
Winter Pony
AuthorJean Slaughter Doty
ISBN0027327604
Book is good, but not my favorite horse story by any means. I have not read Doty's Summer Pony, so cannot compare this book to that one. I did enjoy that this book was set in the winter and included training the pony to pull a sleigh. I think swooshing through the snow in a sleigh (having never done it in my life)...
Smart Dog
AuthorVivian Vande Velde
ISBN0440416108
Amy Prochenko has spent most of fifth grade avoiding both the bully Katilyn Walker, whose bark is as bad as her bite, and Sean Gorman, the only kid less popular than Amy. As if life isn't hard enough, along comes Sherlock.

After escaping from a research laboratory, all Sherlock wants is to be an...
Keeper of the Doves
AuthorBetsy Byars
ISBN0142400637
Amen McBee, the youngest of five sisters, gobbles up words the way other children gobble up sweets.  She couldn't be more different from her elder twin sisters Arabella and Annabella-called the Bellas.  The mischievous Bellas constantly frighten Amen with stories of Mr. Tominski-the old recluse...
Fortune's Magic Farm
AuthorSuzanne Selfors
This story takes place in the dark, dank village of Runny Cove. There, orphan Isabelle works her fingers to the bone at the Magnificently Supreme Umbrella Factory, struggling to support herself and her Grandma Maxine. That is, until Isabelle discovers that she has inherited Fortune's Farm, the last...
In High Places
AuthorTom Morrisey
ISBN0764203460
A Breath From Tragedy, a Whisper from Glory

For Patrick Nolan, every climb tells a story. And now maybe it's his own…. He's right at the rim, staring over the cliff's knife edge and wondering how things went wrong so quickly.

It all started after arriving home from a weekend climbing...
The Little Rabbit
AuthorJudy Dunn
ISBN0394843770
The Little Rabbit is a story of irresponsible pet-keeping hidden behind heart-melting photos as adorable as any internet meme.Do not let the cuteness sucker you in! For one thing, pet rabbits should NOT be allowed to wander in meadows (however idyllic) without leash or pen, especially if the pet-keeper...
Nurse Matilda Goes to Town
AuthorChristianna Brand
ISBN0747576777
Mr and Mrs Brown have a huge family of incredibly naughty children. They had once been fortunate enough to acquire the services of Nurse Matilda, who had transformed the children into models of good behaviour. But now the children have slipped back into their wicked ways: Tora has put glue in the sandwiches...
Who Took the Farmer's Hat?
AuthorJoan L. Nodset
ISBN0064431746
The farmer had a hat, an old brown hat.
Oh, how her liked that old brown hat!

But then the wind came, and blew the hat away. And as fast as the farmer ran, the wind raced even faster. So the farmer went looking. Neither squirrel, nor Mouse, nor Duck, nor any of the other animals has seen the hat--though...
De tuinen van Dorr
AuthorPaul Biegel
Twee kinderen, een prinses en een tuinmansjongen, spelen in de tuin van het kasteel. Ze gaan van elkaar houden, maar dat mag niet. 'Jij bent de mijnewel,' verzucht de tuinmansjongen, 'maar ik ben de jouweniet.' Het prinsesje verzet zich hevig tegen de macht van de heks Sirdis die hun liefde dwarsboomt....
Britannia Mews
AuthorMargery Sharp
This novel is perfection. It is a brilliant, bountiful story with unforgettable characters, written with heart by an author whose expertise is both meticulous and fluid.

We follow the story of Adelaide Lambert (née Culver) from her young childhood years in the 1800’s through to the last...
The Betsy-Tacy Treasury
AuthorMaud Hart Lovelace
ISBN0060249196
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It's so very hard to ever pick one single favorite book from one's childhood, but I have such an easy time picking out tons of 'favorites.' The Betsy-Tacy books would definitely be up there on the favorites list....
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