Thursday's Child
10 best books like Thursday's Child (Noel Streatfeild): Secret Water, Charlotte Sometimes, Nightbirds on Nantucket, Katie John, The Diddakoi, Mirror of Danger, New Treasure Seekers, Seven Alone, Back Home, The Children of Cherry Tree Farm
| Author | Arthur Ransome |
| ISBN | 1567920640 |
In the eighth book in Arthur Ransome's beloved Swallows and Amazons series, the five Walker children are left on a "desert island" by their parents with provisions for a long stay and a blank map to fill in. Like all of Ransome's books, this is at once a real adventure and a lesson in the practicalities of...
| Author | Penelope Farmer |
| ISBN | 1590172213 |
A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense.
It's natural to feel a little out of place when you're the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she's baffled: everyone thinks she's...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0395971853 |
Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, where Dido and the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence, are left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation....
| Author | Mary Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0060209518 |
Ten-year-old Katie John Tucker did not look forward to the summer she and her parents were to spend in the enormous old house in the small southern town. She hadn't wanted to leave her friends, and she wished that fall would come quickly.But in spite of all her gloomy predictions, Katie John had a wonderful...
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0330398687 |
A read aloud of a childhood favourite.
Kizzy is from a traveller family, she lives with her Gran in a wagon parked in the orchard of Admiral Twiss' country estate.
She goes to the local school and is taunted and bullied. When the time comes Kizzy can't live with Gran anymore some disreputable...
| Author | Pamela Sykes |
| ISBN | 0671411349 |
Originally published in Britain as Come Back, Lucy.
The mirror looked ordinary. It had a heavy gold frame and leaned against the wall in the attic. But when Lucy first looked into the mirror, a strange thing happened. Another girl's face appeared beside hers, laughing. Whirling around in surprise...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367667 |
The well-meaning but accident-prone Bastable siblings are given another outing by Edith Nesbit, following on from the success of
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
(1899) and
The Wouldbegoods
(1900). We reacquaint ourselves with the 'anonymous' author Oswald, with all his familiar malapropisms...
| Author | Honoré Willsie Morrow |
| ISBN | 0590102915 |
The epic journey of the Sager children by covered wagon from Missouri to Oregon in 1848. Oldest brother John is forced to maturity when tragedy strikes his family.
When his father and mother both die on the journey from their home in Missouri to a new home in Oregon, John Sager, only thirteen, continues...
| Author | Michelle Magorian |
| ISBN | 0064404110 |
I remember first reading this book when I was about 11 or 12 years old. It was a perfect book to read at that age as not only was it a wonderful story that taught me about the toll that a war takes on a child but I also remember identifying with the same awkward adolescent changes and experiences that the protagonist,...
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 0006904653 |
"We're off to Cherry-Tree Farm! We're going to go wild!" the children shout as their train pulls out of London.
So of course when Uncle Tim tells them about Tammylan, the wild man who lives out of doors and knows all about the animals and birds, they decide to look for him. Once they meet him all sorts...
| Author | Sheila Haigh |
| ISBN | 0590430157 |
FEBRUARY
as part of my personal reading challenges for 2017, once a month i will be revisiting a favorite book from when i was a little bitty karen and seeing if it holds up to my fond memories and determining if i can still enjoy it as an old and crotchety karen.
fingers crossed.
so:...
| Author | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
| ISBN | 0006903355 |
The Bettany sisters - Madge, who founded a boarding school for girls in the Austrian Tyrol, in
The School at the Chalet
, and her younger sister Joey, who was enrolled as the school's first pupil - return in this second installment of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's epic fifty-eight-volume series (sixty-two,...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440424852 |
Legit props to Snyder for giving the book this title. You know these kids are going to be kidnaped and the fact that the first half of the book is just a travelogue about the family moving to Italy really ramps up the tension. Every time they go on a picnic, or their parents leave for work, you think . . . this...
| Author | Beverley Nichols |
| ISBN | 0006709931 |
One of my absolute favourite books from my childhood, which I think has had a great deal to do with my love of nature throughout my life.
I still yearn for the Shop Under the Willow Tree.
I still think of trying to gather some 'sleepo' when I can't get to sleep at night.
"Whenever a cat...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0440840341 |
Facts and fictions are different truths. Minna Pratt stares at this message above her mother's typewriter every day and tries to understand it. But how can she, when her mind is already so full? She wishes her mother would ask her normal questions like "How was your day?" instead of "What is the quality...
| Author | Maurice Gee |
| ISBN | 0195580400 |
This book and the subsequent TV series left such an impression on me that I still can't look at Rangitoto without thinking about slimy aliens, giant worms and those cool glowing stones. I wanted one just as much as I wanted my own lightsabre.
Undoubtedly a New Zealand classic. The only reason...
| Author | Jean Estoril |
| ISBN | 0590421905 |
I received this book from my cousin when I was quite young, perhaps about 8 or 9. I'm not sure how many times I read it as a child, but it was a favorite. I loved the illustration on the cover- the edition I had as a child was the Scholastic edition with the pink cover.
A few years ago, I was poking around...
This book is one of the literature component for secondary school in Malaysia. Although I'm not using it in my school, at least as a teacher I should know the story. Therefore, I read it. In my opinion, this novel aren't not the best among those novels assingn for form 5 but it wasn't the worst. Its quite interesting...
| Author | Willard Price |
| ISBN | 0224606255 |
Willard Price's take on Moby Dick treads a little too close to its source material. Whilst referencing the fate of the Essex, which in turn inspired Melville's epic, Price nonetheless avoids any allusion to Ahab or the white whale in his own voyage of shipwreck and mutiny. In this fifth adventure, the...
| Author | Nina Bawden |
| ISBN | 0395586356 |
For an old middle grade novel, the amount of depth and character development in The Witch's Daughter is amazing. Contrary to what the title implies, this is not a book about witches, but instead an adventure/mystery book about three young friends with individual differences whose friendship is built...
