Three Lives to Live
10 best books like Three Lives to Live (Anne Lindbergh): Everybody Cooks Rice, The Heavenward Path, Sugar Sugar Rune, Volume 5, The Class Trip, Hanatsukihime, Vol. 02, Building Blocks, Lotta on Troublemaker Street, A Girl Named Helen Keller, Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James, Slam Book
| Author | Norah Dooley |
| ISBN | 0876145918 |
A white child travels through her multicultural block, tasting rice dishes from the kitchens of her light-skinned POC neighbors. Though she does rate many of the offerings as “delicious”, she narrates, “[Tam, a Vietnamese neighbor] was busy making the garlicky, fishy sauce, called NUOC CHAM....
Mitsuko is being haunted by ghosts and bad luck. An angry spirit commands her to keep a forgotten promise and assigns her a series of impossible tasks. She turns to the mischievous shape-shifter Goranu for help. Together they journey through a landscape of Japanese myths and legends made real. This...
| Author | Moyoco Anno |
| ISBN | 0345494873 |
THE FORGOTTEN PATH
Witch girls Chocolat and Vanilla were best friends before they came to the Human World. But the competition to see who will be the next Queen of the Magical World has come between them. Worse, Vanilla has embraced the Dark Magic of the Ogres, who are the enemies of all witches....
| Author | Francine Pascal |
| ISBN | 0553155881 |
Best friends forever...
It's the Sweet Valley Middle School sixth-grade trip to a fabulous amusement park! Both twins, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, have been waiting for this day for ages. And now that it's here, they're not even talking to each other!
Despite...
When Lys was born, her heart did not beat at all. To save her, her mother made a contract with a devil: Lys can borrow his heart until the day she turns 16, but after that, he will eat her body. Together with her companion, Siva, someone she met by chance on the desert at night, she travels around as a dancer girl...
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0689851057 |
What would it be like to be older than your father? Brann Connell is sick of hearing his parents argue all the time. Seems to Brann his dad could stand up for himself more, instead of building a wall of excuses to hide behind. But some things never change -- after all, his dad has "always" been this way. Or has...
| Author | Astrid Lindgren |
| ISBN | 0689846738 |
Poor Lotta is having a very bad day. First, she wakes up mad because in her dream her older brother and sister were mean to her. Then, Mother expects her to wear a sweater that "scratches and tickles." Madder than ever, Lotta decides to run away and find a new place to live. After all, everyone at her house...
| Author | Margo Lundell |
| ISBN | 0590479636 |
قصة حياة هيلين كيلر = قصة فى مديح الإعاقة
فى مديح الضعف و العجز و الفقد ....
ملحمة بطولية بين فتاتين مُعاقتين ....الاولى هيلين كيلر الطفلة ذات التسع عشر شهراً...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698117883 |
I haven't read this book in a really long time. But I was privileged enough to get this book autographed by Paula Danziger herself. She came to visit my elementary school in the 4th grade. Her Amber Brown series was the first set up books I ever picked up on my own and read. I couldn't read until the 4th grade,...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590418386 |
Slam books are of course the 80s/90s version of the burn book made famous in Tina Fey's "Mean Girls". A book put together my adolescent teenage girls with a lot of hormones and aggression and a need to bitch about their peers. I read this book in grade eight and still remember it 13 years later because I skipped...
| Author | Maggie Prince |
| ISBN | 0618331247 |
Something is not right in Emily’s new house in the historic London neighborhood of Hound Hill. And something is not quite right with Emily. Encountering hints to her home’s haunted past, she begins to experience distressing symptoms: a headache, a fever, extreme thirst, hallucinations, and,...
| Author | Mary Stolz |
| ISBN | 0440911230 |
This is the story of two girls: Erin and Irun. One lives now in New York City, and one belongs in ancient Egypt 3,000 years ago. One is fascinated by things of the past, and the other haunted by a voice from the future.
For Erin, the "now" she lives in is not all she'd like it to be. There are problems...
| Author | Yvonne MacGrory |
| ISBN | 0915943921 |
Lucy, a rather spoiled almost-eleven-year-old, gets a very special birthday present from her grandmother. This gift, a star ruby ring, has been passed down for generations through Lucy's family. The evening before her birthday, Lucy accidently discovers the magical secret of the ring:The secret...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0152060820 |
Arabel Jones and her raven companion, Mortimer, return in this second collection of short stories, following the initial title, Arabel's Raven. In Mortimer's Tie, Mortimer's quest to find a diamond eventually wins the Jones family a free cruise. But will Mortimer's penchant for disaster ruin their...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0440226929 |
In this fast-paced novel about the bonds of friendship, Jenny, Emily, and Hillary, known as the Awesome Threesome, thought they'd be a threesome forever. But with Jennie's relentless ambition, Emily's jealousy, and Hillary's building resentment, it seems the Awesome Threesome is destined to be...
Faith Creation, All Lies Revealed
| Author | Christine Dougherty |
Faith was three the first time her twin sister died.
The second time, she was ten.
Faith and her twin sister depended only on each other, bonding deeply through telepathy in the midst of their tumultuous childhood.
When her twin dies, Faith becomes a shut-in, deciding to ignore the...
| Author | George Sirois |
| ISBN | 0991069501 |
Thank you, George Sirois, for making me feel like a kid again.
With your book, Excelsior, I was thrown head-first into the life of Matthew Peters, a teenage boy that I was a LOT like way back when. He spends his days avoiding bullies and and immersed in comic books - not just reading them, but creating...
Anastasia at This Address
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0440406528 |
"SWM, 28, boyish charm, inherited wealth, looking for tall young woman, nonsmoker, to share Caribbean vacations, reruns of Casablanca, and romance." When thirteen-year-old Anastasia Krupnic sees this ad in a personal column, she decides to write back, even though it means stretching the truth...
| Author | Charles Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0765306395 |
Euclid Heights, Illinois, is a town of many shortcuts, between houses, through orchards, and across fields. Josh Winkler, a local artist and longtime resident, knows these irregular pathways well, but he is flabbergasted when a hasty dash down a familiar walk deposits him fifteen minutes in the past....
The Riddle of Penncroft Farm
| Author | Dorothea Jensen |
| ISBN | 0152164413 |
Lars Olafson moves with his parents to the old family farm near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to live with his aged aunt Cass. Lars is miserable--until he meets Geordie, a ghost whose stories of the Revolutionary War are as exciting as those of an eyewitness. When Aunt Cass dies suddenly, Lars is faced...
| Author | Leonard Gershe |
| ISBN | 0394418182 |
Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe
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