The Secret Window
10 best books like The Secret Window (Betty Ren Wright): The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving, The Ghosts of Stone Hollow, Beyond the Burning Time, Ghosts I Have Been, The Ghosts, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, Bummer Summer, The Language of Goldfish, Don't Think Twice, The Not-Just-Anybody Family
| Author | Ann McGovern |
| ISBN | 0590461885 |
A beautifully illustrated and age appropriate retelling of the famous Thanksgiving story.
Ages 5-11
This book isn't just about the three day long First Thanksgiving celebration, though that is chronicled nicely; It is also about the struggles the pilgrims encountered along...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0718823478 |
I am new to Zilpha Keatley Snyder with an odd, long name but see that she is award-winning through other novels. This 1974 one didn't need to be set in 1938 and doesn't feel like it is in 1938, thus I don't know the authoress' purpose but most of it felt relevant. A strong, sour exception was one teacher's attitude...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0590473328 |
They say something very strange is happening to some of the people of Salem. That some of the young girls have become - troubled. And the fear is beginning to spread. Mary and her mother don't hear about the rumors right away. They don't know that many of the villagers believe that some of Mary's friends...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0141310960 |
An oldie from my childhood which I just finished re-reading this October -- great timing, because it begins on Halloween . . . .
Excellent, and now I remember why I hung onto this so long. I was ghost crazy as a kid, and adored witches, and this book certainly filled the bill. Blossom Culp, social...
| Author | Antonia Barber |
| ISBN | 0671707140 |
When Lucy sat in the attic, she thought she heard the sound of voices calling...
That's when she started to believe the rumors in the village that the old house was haunted. But no ghosts appeared - until the day Lucy and her brother Jamie stood in the garden and watched two pale figures, a girl and a boy,...
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 0819304042 |
Emmet and his Ma are having a tough time of it scrapping by in Frogtown Hollow. With his Dad's trusty toolbox Emmet tries to earn as much money as he can to supplement his Ma's income from taking in wash. But they both want nothing more then to make the coming Christmas special for the other. In a refashioning...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590413082 |
What a bummer!
Summer is supposed to be the best time of the year. But this summer looks like a total loss to Kammy Whitlock. First, her Dad gets married again. Then his new wife Kate moves in, and Kammy has to put up with her two children. They won't leave Kammy alone! Three-year-old Muffin flushes...
Carrie Stokes doesn’t like change. After she moves to a new place and has to adjust to a new school, new people in her life, and the challenges of growing up she loses it. Something within her just can’t take it anymore and she starts blacking out, passing out, wandering for hours with no idea of where...
| Author | Ruth Pennebaker |
| ISBN | 0805067299 |
Don't think twice is a book about a teenage girl named Anne. She was in a relationship with her boyfriend, Jake, at the time, when her unplanned pregnancy occurred. However, she and Jake soon broke up and Anne was left to keep Jake from knowing about her being pregnant and sharing the news with her parents....
| Author | Betsy Byars |
| ISBN | 0330299743 |
When Junior Blossom wakes up in the hospital, his last memory is of crouching on the barn roof with cloth wings tied to his arms, and of Maggie and Vern in the yard below, urging him to fly. That had been just before Junior spotted a police car approaching the farm in a cloud of dust.Meanwhile Pap, the children's...
Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since witnessing her parents’ drowning during a hurricane. Three years later, another hurricane is heading toward the island, and Alyssa must come to terms with her parents’ deaths to save her grandfather and brother. “This book will have appeal for...
| Author | Wendy Corsi Staub |
| ISBN | 0786012471 |
Abby has always wanted to go away somewhere for the summer. But, not to Seacliffe, a town in Massachusetts. Abby and her parents move into an old house there that her parents will remodel to sell.
But Abby isn't happy being there. As much as she wanted to get away, she'd much rather be back in New...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0140383204 |
It was only well over midway through Protecting Marie that I realized that I had read this book as a young teenager, and I had loved it then as well. This is an excellent book, convincingly written, that will resound with young and old readers alike. Through Fanny, the twelve-year-old main character,...
| Author | Peggy Parish |
| ISBN | 0440444381 |
Each summer Lisa, Bill, and Jed visit their grandparents, and they hear the story of the sketches hung above the mantel. The sketches are clues to a hidden treasure, and no one has been able to figure them out for a century. There is a missing first clue, but when the children stumble upon the second clue,...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0316153540 |
I read this book in middle school, and I found it again at St. Vincent De Paul. Loved it! Laura feels that she's ordinary. She gets straight As in school, but feels that isn't enough. Her sister, Jill, bowls and has been in every high school play. Brother Douglas is on the debate team and plays piano. Dennis,...
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380723549 |
I really enjoyed this book because Sara shows Emily that you can't let people push you around and you have to be strong. Although they end up in some arguments which result in them not talking to each other, they become best friends. It portrays a really good moral especially to younger kids because it contributes...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0590454021 |
Venom.
Dove doesn't want to buy the perfume. She doesn't like its scent. And its name frightens her.
But somehow she can't help herself. It's almost as if something--or someone--inside her is forcing her to try it.
Dove was always a nice person, a sweet and gentle girl on whom...
| Author | Margaret J. Anderson |
This is the story of two adolescent girls who are evacuated from Edinburgh at the beginning of World War II. The protagonist, Marjorie, is a painfully shy, wealthy orphan who lives with her inattentive uncle. Brash, confident Shona is a poor orphan who lives at the nearby orphanage and doesn't know her...
Jody Sanderson goes on a skiing trip at Brevard Pass with a bunch of kids she doesn't really know well. (Jody's friend Kate planned this trip with Jody but then came down with the flu and now she can't go with her. So Kate persuades Jody to go on the ski trip without her.) Jody arrives at Brevard Pass and she...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0553158279 |
When sixth grader Nina Tanleven starts working at an antiques shop, she never expects to stumble onto a mystery -- or into danger. But that's exactly what happens when she and her best friend, Chris, go to pick up an antique wardrobe at old Miss Watson's. From the moment the girls set foot in the run-down...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0545078326 |
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Clive Staples Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University...
