Trouble Don't Last

7 best books like Trouble Don't Last (Shelley Pearsall): On My Honor, Harriet the Invincible, House Made of Dawn, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry, The Birchbark House, Jacob Have I Loved, Stealing Freedom

On My Honor

Author	Marion Dane Bauer
ISBN	0440466334

"On My Honor" was always a kids' book that was personal to me. The author, Marion Dane Bauer, was raised in the same small town as my mother; Oglesby, Illinois. The events in the book are based on an actual young boy's drowning that took place when my mother and the author were both children. I grew up playing...

Harriet the Invincible

Author	Ursula Vernon
ISBN	0803739834

Sleeping Beauty gets a feisty, furry twist in this hilarious new comic series from the creator of Dragonbreath

Harriet Hamsterbone is not your typical princess. She may be quite stunning in the rodent realm (you'll have to trust her on this one), but she is not so great at trailing around the...

House Made of Dawn

Author	N. Scott Momaday
ISBN	0072434201

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a proud stranger in his native land.

He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The...

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

Author	Bryan Sykes
ISBN	0393020185

One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix—a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come.

In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine...

The Birchbark House

Author	Louise Erdrich
ISBN	0786814543

Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich's first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the...

Jacob Have I Loved

Author

Katherine Paterson

Esau have I hated . . . Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their parents' love, her dreams for the future.

For...

Stealing Freedom

Author	Elisa Carbone
ISBN	0440417074

Inspired by a true story, the riveting novel of a young slave girl's harrowing escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

The moment Ann Maria Weems was born, her freedom was stolen from her. Like her family and the other slaves on the farm, Ann works from sunup to sundown and obeys the orders...