The Star Fisher
9 best books like The Star Fisher (Laurence Yep): Each Little Bird that Sings, A Year Down Yonder, Amy and Laura, A Long Way from Chicago, The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall, How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay, Jake and Lily, The Graduation of Jake Moon, The Green Branch
| Author | Deborah Wiles |
| ISBN | 0152056572 |
Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger has attended 247 funerals. But that's not surprising, considering that her family runs the town funeral home. And even though Great-uncle Edisto keeled over with a heart attack and Great-great-aunt Florentine dropped dead--just like that--six months later, Comfort...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0142300705 |
Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not.
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| Author | Marilyn Sachs |
| ISBN | 0595175929 |
This review of all three Amy and Laura books also appears on my blog, Read-at-Home Mom.
When Marilyn Sachs passed away at the beginning of January, I was reminded immediately of how much I enjoyed her 1968 children's novel, Veronica Ganz. Back in 2015, when I reviewed the book, I wrote that it...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0142401102 |
"I don't think Grandma's a very good influence on us," Mary Alice said.
Every August, Joey Dowdel and his kid sister Mary Alice spend a week at their Granny's house.
She was so big and the town was so small. She was old too, or so we thought -- old as the hills. And tough! She was tough as an...
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0547385609 |
When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crutchfield Hall, an old manor house in the English countryside. Anything will be better, she thinks, than the grim London orphanage where she has lived...
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
| Author | Julia Alvarez |
| ISBN | 0440418704 |
A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez.
Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about! Tía Lola, his quirky, carismática, and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives...
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0060281359 |
Jake and Lily are twins. Even though they seem pretty different—Jake is the calm one and Lily has a temper; Lily is obsessed with trains and Jake collects cool rocks—they feel exactly the same, almost like two halves of one person. When one of them gets hurt, the other can feel it. They can communicate...
Life hasn't been the same for Jake Moon since his grandfather, Skelly, got Alzheimer's disease. At first Jake thought, no big deal, it was just a disease that made old people forget where they put their car keys. But he was wrong. It is a big deal. A very big deal.For one thing, he can't invite friends over...
| Author | Edith Pargeter |
| ISBN | 0708830579 |
(2nd book of The Heaven Tree trilogy)
Young Harry Talvace, the son of Ralf Isambard's master-builder who raised the great church of Parfois and was put to death by his jealous patron, has grown up at the court of Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales. Deep in his heart he nurses a desire for vengence,...
