The True Gift: A Christmas Story
10 best books like The True Gift: A Christmas Story (Patricia MacLachlan): The Story of Holly and Ivy, Stone Fox, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story, Nancy and Plum, The Family Under the Bridge, The Mysterious Howling, Junie B., First Grader (at Last!), Leroy Ninker Saddles Up, The Unseen Guest, The Interrupted Tale
The Story of Holly and Ivy
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0670062197 |
Ivy, Holly, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones all have one Christmas wish. Ivy, an orphan, wishes for a real home and sets out in search of the grandmother she's sure she can find. Holly, a doll, wishes for a child to bring her to life. And the Joneses wish more than anything for a son or daughter to share their holiday....
| Author | John Reynolds Gardiner |
| ISBN | 0064401324 |
John Reynolds Gardiner's classic action-packed adventure story about a thrilling dogsled race has captivated readers for more than thirty years.
Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy, who lives with his grandfather in Wyoming. When Grandfather falls...
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
| Author | Gloria Houston |
| ISBN | 0140558772 |
This is a sweet story that children will love at Christmas time, and the illustrations are really great.
A little girl named Ruthie is picked to be the angel at the Christmas play, but she has no angel costume to wear. Her father is away from home in a war that is across the sea, which has created a...
| Author | Betty MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0704102927 |
"Nancy and Plum" is a delightful old fashioned Christmas story about two sisters, Nancy, 10 and Plum, 8, whose parents died in an accident. Their only surviving relative is Uncle John, a wealthy bachelor with little patience or time for children. He puts the girls in Mrs. Monday's Boarding School in...
The Family Under the Bridge
| Author | Natalie Savage Carlson |
| ISBN | 0064402509 |
This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his solitary life. Children, he said, were like starlings, and one was better off without them.
But the children who lived under the bridge recognized a true friend when they met one, even if the friend...
| Author | Maryrose Wood |
| ISBN | 0061791059 |
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place are no ordinary children, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess, and mysteries abound in this first volume in a new series for ages 9+.
Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander,...
Junie B., First Grader (at Last!)
| Author | Barbara Park |
| ISBN | 0375815163 |
The 18th installment in Barbara Park's popular beginning chapter-book series puts our temperamental heroine into a brand-new class where she has to make brand-new friends. And as if that weren't hard enough, her brand-new teacher, Mr. Scary ("He made that name up, I believe," Junie writes in a journal...
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763663395 |
Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for the first in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books.
Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn’t have is a horse — until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it’s...
| Author | Maryrose Wood |
| ISBN | 0061791199 |
Since returning from London, the three Incorrigible children and their plucky governess, Miss Penelope Lumley, have been exceedingly busy. Despite their wolfish upbringing, the children have taken up bird watching, with no unfortunate consequences--yet. And a perplexing gift raises hard questions...
| Author | Maryrose Wood |
| ISBN | 0061791229 |
For fans of Lemony Snicket s Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart s Mysterious Benedict Society comes the fourth book in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed and hilarious Victorian mystery series by Maryrose Wood.
In The Interrupted Tale, Miss Penelope...
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689716044 |
Now while I certainly have very much enjoyed Alice Dalgliesh' 1953 Newbery Honour winning The Bears on Hemlock Mountain theme and content wise and do greatly appreciate the slice of pioneer American life presented and depicted, I am nevertheless and sadly left rather majorly cold and unsatisfied...
| Author | Elvira Woodruff |
| ISBN | 0590318799 |
In a heartwarming novel that is destined to become a Christmas classic, acclaimed author Elvira Woodruff tells the story of two orphaned sisters whose lives are forever changed by a magical doll.
Lucy and Glory are orphaned sisters with no real place to call home. Only their memories of a beautiful...
The Stowell family is abuzz with holiday excitement, and Frankie, the youngest boy, is the most excited of all. But there's a cloud over the joyous season: Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and Pa hasn't returned yet from his trip to Lansing. He promised to bring back the oranges for the mantelpiece. Every year...
| Author | Andrea Cheng |
| ISBN | 0547684630 |
In Chinese, peng you means friend. But in any language, all Anna knows for certain is that friendship is complicated.
When Anna needs company, she turns to her books. Whether traveling through A Wrinkle in Time, or peering over My Side of the Mountain, books provide what real life cannot—constant...
The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden
| Author | Karina Yan Glaser |
| ISBN | 1328770028 |
Return to Harlem's "wildly entertaining" family in this funny, heartwarming sequel. When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem—in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting...
