The Silver Donkey
10 best books like The Silver Donkey (Sonya Hartnett): A Rose for the ANZAC Boys, So Much to Tell You, Dicey's Song, Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, Withering-By-Sea, Once, Then, The Mozart Question, A Tale Dark & Grimm, The Island at the End of Everything
| Author | Jackie French |
| ISBN | 0732285402 |
The 'War to end all Wars', as seen through the eyes of three young women
It is 1915. War is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France, but it might as well be a world away from sixteen–year–old New Zealander Midge Macpherson, at school in England learning to be a young lady. But...
Scarred, literally, by her past, Marina has withdrawn into silence. Then, at her new boarding school, she is set the task of writing a diary by her English teacher, and finds a way of expressing her thoughts and feelings and of exploring the traumatic events that have caused her distress. Through Marina's...
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0689863624 |
"I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore."
3.5 ⭐️
This was a wonderful second installment to the Tillerman Cycle.
When we last left Dicey, James, Maybeth and Sammy - they were beginning new lives, living on their grandmothers farm.
This novel has...
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
| Author | Ken Mochizuki |
| ISBN | 1584301570 |
In 1940, five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the eldest son of the Japanese consul to Lithuania, saw from the consulate window hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland. They had come to Hiroki's father with a desperate request: Could consul Sugihara write visas for them to escape the Nazi threat?
The...
| Author | Judith Rossell |
| ISBN | 0733333001 |
High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three dreadful Aunts. But one night, Stella sees something she shouldn't have... Something...
Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War.
Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once.
Once I escaped...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0141324821 |
In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless they manage to escape . . .
A little hope goes a...
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 1406306487 |
This is one of those books that could be an adult or a children's book. It opens with a reporter interviewing a violinist, and feels like an adult book. But when the violinist begins to speak of his boyhood, it feels like a children's book. Either way, it's good. I like the addition of full-page and double-page...
| Author | Adam Gidwitz |
| ISBN | 0525423346 |
In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses,...
The Island at the End of Everything
| Author | Kiran Millwood Hargrave |
| ISBN | 1910002763 |
Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards 2017
From the author of the bestselling tale The Girl of Ink & Stars comes a beautiful new adventure about finding your way home.
There are some places you would not want to go. Even if I told you that we have oceans...
