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The Time Travelers: Volume One

10 best books like The Time Travelers: Volume One (Caroline B. Cooney): The Traitor's Smile, Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold, The King in the Window, The Young Wizards, Horseman, Waking Beauty: A Novel, The Jade Notebook, The Princess Tales, Volume I, Trapped, Hope's Crossing

The Traitor's Smile
AuthorPatricia Elliott
ISBN0340956771
Eugenie de Boncoeur has fled the violence of the French Revolution to find sanctuary in England at the home of her cousin, Hetta. At first, the two girls find themselves at loggerheads: Hetta can't understand Eugenie's preoccupation with clothes and appearance, and scorns her politics. Soon, however,...
Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold
AuthorAnn Rinaldi
ISBN0152050795
An independent-minded young maid tells the story of social-climber Peggy Shippen and how she influenced Benedict Arnold’s betrayal of the Patriot forces. Revolutionary Philadelphia is brought to life as Becca seeks to find her “missing pieces” while exploring the complicated issues of...
The King in the Window
AuthorAdam Gopnik
ISBN0786838949
Oliver Parker is a ten-year-old American boy miserably trapped in Paris, where his father is stationed as a journalist. Intimidated by his French school and its prickly teachers, oppressed by gray and wintry Paris, and feeling curiously remote from his father-who spends more and more time staring...
The Young Wizards
AuthorDiane Duane
ISBN0739419439
Book club collection of So You Want to Be a Wizard; Deep Wizardry; High Wizardry; A Wizard Abroad; The Wizard's Dilemma.

Long before there was Harry Potter, there was Nita Callahan and her friend Kit. Nita doesn't have a highly significant scar on her forehead, nor does she live with abusive...
Horseman
AuthorChristopher Golden
ISBN1595140247
So, let me just start by saying that I've read all four books in this series at least four or five times each! It might have something to do with my slight obsession with the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, in just about any form. Surprisingly there aren't that many retellings of the legend. So, I make do with what...
Waking Beauty: A Novel
AuthorElyse Friedman
ISBN1400051061
What would you do if you went to bed ugly, fat, and depressed and woke up the next morning in the body of a goddess?
This is exactly the miracle that befalls Allison Penny, who has spent most of her twenty-two years on this earth in a serious slump (to say the least).

Having long since given up...
The Jade Notebook
AuthorLaura Resau
ISBN0385740530
Down-to-earth Zeeta and her flighty mom, Layla, have spent years traveling the globe and soaking up everything each new culture has to offer. Now they've settled in the beachside town of Mazunte, Mexico, where Zeeta's true love, Wendell, has an internship photographing rare sea turtles. At first...
The Princess Tales, Volume I
AuthorGail Carson Levine
ISBN0060518413
Once upon a time...A kind sister and a cruel one. A charming prince. A spiteful fairy. A hundred-year snooze. A pea under a pile of mattresses. A kiss.

All the familiar ingredients, but why is the punished sister happy? Where did that extra prince come from, and what does a flock of balding sheep...
Trapped
AuthorR.L. Stine
ISBN0671015001
Trapped is the final book in the main Fear Street series. And it was pretty lazy. The beginning is a blatant Breakfast Club rip-off of students having a Saturday detention. Then, they find some tunnels underneath the school and want to explore. They get lost, the ladder breaks, a red mist starts chasing...
Hope's Crossing
AuthorJoan Elizabeth Goodman
ISBN0698118073
Hope's father works for General Washington during the revolutionary war. Tories break into their house and burn everything down and even kidnap Hope who is just a young girl. Taken back to the Torie's house Hope is treated very badly, especially by the wife. Fortunately there's an older woman who helps...
The Diamonds
AuthorTed Michael
ISBN0385735790
At Long Islands’s private Bennington School, the Diamonds rule supreme. They’re the girls all the boys want to date and all the girls want to be. And fortunately for Marni, she’s right in the middle of them. Best friends with the ringleader, Clarissa, Marni enjoys all the spoils of the ultrapopular:...
Kindan no koi de ikou #1
AuthorTomu Ohmi
ISBN4091354033
Adesso che ho guardato bene la copertina dopo averla scansionata... Beh, mi sembra uno stile di disegno un po' antico! Ma dopotutto siamo nel 2002.

È il primo numero di una nuova serie, vero! Ma c'è un altro volumetto - inedito in Italia e che leggerò in francese - che racconta come i due protagonisti...
A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
AuthorBarbara Dana
ISBN0060287047
When something is most important to me and I do not want to lose it, I gather it into a poem. It is said that women must employ the needle and not the pen. But I will be a Poet! That's who I am!

Before she was an iconic American poet, Emily Dickinson was a spirited girl eager to find her place in the world....
Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?
AuthorAllyson Beatrice
ISBN1402208456
Allyson Beatrice lives a not-quite-ordinary life. Her job and almost everyone she knows are the result of spending too much time on the Internet talking about vampires, slayers and lesbian witches. And her encounters are even more unusual than you'd imagine. A hilarious collection of true stories...
Greek Drama
AuthorMoses Hadas
ISBN0553212214
Editorial Reviews - Amazon In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding...
Bourne & Tributary
AuthorLisa Tawn Bergren
If you like romance, adventure and a dose of medieval Italian culture, you'll love WATERFALL (book 1), CASCADE (book 2), TORRENT (book 3), as well as the follow-up novellas, BOURNE (book 3.1) and TRIBUTARY (book 3.2). In this volume, both novellas are included.

BOURNE, a novella, picks up...
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
AuthorClaudia Gabel
ISBN0439918545
This book was awsoem I really liked it! (: I can't wait to read the next one....


The book is about two ex-best friends Nola and Marnie who arent speaking to each other anymore but they both have huge boy trouble.
It all started when they got in a fight at school because Marnie had given away...
Angelmonster
AuthorVeronica Bennett
ISBN0763629944
Veronica Bennett's lush reimagining of the life of Mary Shelley — on the eve of her authorship of the classic gothic novel Frankenstein — is a gripping story of love and obsession.

In the spring of 1814, poet Percy Shelley enters the life of young Mary
Godwin like an angel of deliverance....
Why I Jumped: My True Story of Postpartum Depression, Dramatic Rescue & Return to Hope
AuthorTina Zahn
ISBN0800718917
A very (less than 24 hours) quick read that kept me interested throughout the entire book. Basically, you read quickly to get to the point where she jumps, wanting to know how everything played together to that point and then, after you get there, you want to keep reading in order to know "what happens."...
Three Weddings and a Giggle
AuthorLiz Curtis Higgs
ISBN1601420072
Warning: Laughter ahead! Liz Curtis Higgs delivers again with Fine Print, where a businessman and the speech coach he's hired have no idea there are matchmakers at work on their behalf! Her novella is part of a delightful triple-header in Three Weddings and a Giggle. The giggle comes from Carolyn Zane,...
Timeless Love
AuthorJudith O'Brien
ISBN0743419219
The Magic CharmIt was a lovely silver necklace with a strange antique charm -- an early sixteenth birthday present from her parents. But now Samantha clutched the charm, desperate to disappear when her father discovered she'd wrecked his BMW...."Suddenly she was standing in the bedchamber of Edward...
Snowfall
AuthorK.M. Peyton
ISBN0618737421
Seldom do I find a book that I feel is just about perfect, but Snowfall definitely fits the criteria. Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of a girl who had nothing: no freedom, no opportunities, nothing, but still finds a way to forge a path for herself through life.

Charlotte, an orphan...
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