Thunder Over Kandahar

10 best books like Thunder Over Kandahar (Sharon E. McKay): I Am a Taxi, The Apothecary, Navigating Early, No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure, The Chocolate Maker's Wife, The Art of Keeping Cool, Jump, Maggie McGillicuddy's Eye for Trouble, Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs, Virginia

I Am a Taxi

Author	Deborah Ellis
ISBN	0888997353

For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women’s Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government’s war on drugs. Diego’s adjusted to his new life. His parents are...

The Apothecary

Author

Maile Meloy

It’s 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows—a fascinating boy who’s not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy. When Benjamin’s father is kidnapped,...

Navigating Early

Author	Clare Vanderpool
ISBN	0385742096

At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother’s death and placed in a boy’s boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of...

No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure

Author	Susan Hughes
ISBN	1554531780

A female pharaoh? A woman general in the Kahn's army? A female Viking raider? No way, you say? Look again. Appearances can be deceiving ...

Based on legends, poems, letters and first-hand accounts, these seven biographical tales tell of women who disguised themselves as men. From ancient...

The Chocolate Maker's Wife

Author

Karen Brooks

Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking novel set in 17th century London—a lush, fascinating story of the beautiful woman who is drawn into a world of riches, power, intrigue…and chocolate.

Damnation has never been so sweet...

Growing...

The Art of Keeping Cool

Author	Janet Taylor Lisle
ISBN	0689837887

The War At Home

Fear permeates the Rhode Island coastal town where Robert, his mother, and sister are living out the war with his paternal grandparents: Fear of Nazi submarines offshore. Fear of Abel Hoffman, a German artist living reclusively outside of town. And for Robert, a more personal...

Jump

Author	Elisa Carbone
ISBN	0670011851

Jump. That is what P.K. has done. A totally wild, crazy jump from a restrictive life with her family into a life of total adventure—rock-climbing out west with a guy she barely knows. At first, everything’s amazing. Not only are they climbing in awesomely beautiful national parks like Yosemite...

Maggie McGillicuddy's Eye for Trouble

Author	Susan Hughes
ISBN	1771382910

Unlike her neighbors, Maggie McGillicuddy has an eye for trouble. And while she's knitting on her porch swing, she manages to spot it --- everywhere! With the ?tickety, tickety, tack!? of her knitting needles, the elderly Maggie scares off a prowling tiger! And with the ?whickety, whickety, whack!?...

Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs

Author	Susan Hughes
ISBN	1771386533

From the time she was a young girl, Jane Jacobs's curious mind made her a keen observer of everything around her. When she grew up, she moved to New York City, a place full of new wonders for her to explore. It was there she realized that, just like in nature, a city is an ecosystem. It is made of different parts—sidewalks,...

Virginia

Author	Susan Hughes
ISBN	1554533066

I took hold of her hands, their bones tiny and birdlike, squeezed them gently. I felt like shaking them, shaking her into the panic I was feeling.? Virginia, I don't understand.?

Fourteen-year-old Ivy is flabbergasted when her childhood friend Virginia claims that she has been visited by...

The Kid Table

Author	Andrea Seigel
ISBN	1599904802

Ingrid Bell and her five teenage cousins are such a close-knit group that they don't really mind sitting at the kid table—even if they have to share it with a four-year-old. But then Brianne, the oldest cousin, lands a seat at the adult table and leaves her cousins shocked and confused. What does it take...

What Happens Next

Author	Susan Hughes
ISBN	1771471654

*thank you to Netgalley and Owlkids Books for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review*

3 stars.

This made me emotional. Angry that this little girl was being bullied. Sad about how it makes her feel. Happy for when she described her time with her Mother and Dog. Then proud for...

Up!: How Families Around the World Carry Their Little Ones

Author

Susan Hughes

Around the world, little ones are carried in many different ways: in slings, on shoulders, in backpacks, on hips, in baskets, and in loving arms. Up! depicts ten places around the world, from Afghanistan to northern Canada, Peru to West Africa. In each place, a mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin,...

Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World

Author	Susan Hughes
ISBN	1926818865

When North American kids picture a school, odds are they see rows of desks, stacks of textbooks, and linoleum hallways. They probably don’t picture caves, boats, or train platforms — but there are schools in caves, and on boats and on train platforms. There’s a whole world of unusual schools out...

Case Closed?: Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science

Author	Susan Hughes
ISBN	1554533627

Egypt's first female pharaoh disappears around 1457 BCE --- was she murdered? Find out how DNA closes the case. The ancient Arabian Peninsula city of Ubar vanishes, seemingly without trace. Find out how old maps and modern space shuttles help solve the mystery. Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition...

The Island Horse

Author	Susan Hughes
ISBN	1554535921

It's the early half of the 19th century in coastal Nova Scotia, and almost-ten-year-old Ellie is adjusting to the recent death of her mother. But just when she finally begins to feel happy again, Ellie and her father move to remote Sable Island, a tiny, windblown crescent of grass and sand in the Atlantic....

Earth to Audrey

Author	Susan Hughes
ISBN	1554531659

Audrey comes into Ray's life like an earthbound star. Everything about her is a bit far-out. And she's always in her own little world. So Ray decides that this unusual girl who has dropped into his neighborhood for the summer must be an alien.

As they become friends, Audrey takes Ray on a journey...

Flyaway

Author

Lucy Christopher

This one is by the same author who wrote STOLEN (which you’ll recall that I adored). FLYAWAY is actually her first novel, published second in the states, and it’s a middle grade novel. Basically, it’s about a girl who becomes determined to reunite a lost swan with its flock after the girl’s father...