Waiting for the Queen: A Novel of Early America
10 best books like Waiting for the Queen: A Novel of Early America (Joanna Higgins): Dogtag Summer, The Family Greene, Caminar, Winter of Peril: The Newfoundland Diary of Sophie Loveridge, All Fall Down: The Landslide Diary of Abby Roberts, Flame and Ashes: The Great Fire Diary of Triffie Winsor, Will Sparrow's Road, Jump Into the Sky, I Am Regina, Enemy in the Fort
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 1599901838 |
Twelve-year-old Tracy-or Tuyet-has always felt different. The villagers in Vietnam called her con-lai, or "half-breed," because her father was an American GI. And she doesn't fit in with her adoptive family in California, either. But when Tracy and a friend discover a soldier's dogtag hidden among...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0547260679 |
Cornelia Greene is fed up with gossip about her mother. Caty Littlefield Greene was once a beautiful young bride who lifted the troops’ spirits at Valley Forge, but Cornelia knows that rumors of Caty’s past indiscretions hurt Nathanael Greene, Cornelia’s adored father. Yet Caty claims that...
| Author | Skila Brown |
| ISBN | 0763665169 |
Set in 1981 Guatemala, a lyrical debut novel tells the powerful tale of a boy who must decide what it means to be a man during a time of war.
Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe. But Mama...
| Author | Jan Andrews |
| ISBN | 0779114094 |
Although I generally do very much love the Dear Canada series as a whole and still consider Jan Andrews' Winter Of Peril: The Newfoundland Diary of Sophie Loveridge an adequate and informative enough offering, I nevertheless also cannot really say that I find either the author's presented writing...
| Author | Jean Little |
| ISBN | 1443119199 |
After her father dies, Abby and her family move west to live with relatives who run a hotel in the mining town of Frank, Alberta. Abby keeps busy helping out at the hotel, being chief caregiver to her little brother with Down Syndrome, and learning Morse code at the telegraph office.
When the devastating...
| Author | Janet McNaughton |
| ISBN | 1443124435 |
Eleven-year-old Triffie is the middle daughter of a well-to-do merchant. Triffie knows nothing about what it means to be poor — until the disastrous fire of 1892 burns down most of St. John's, Newfoundland, leaving Triffie's family and 15,000 others homeless.
The fire claimed everything...
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0547739621 |
In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe...
| Author | Shelley Pearsall |
| ISBN | 0375836993 |
Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman—until Levi's grandmother left this world entirely. Now Levi's staying with his Aunt Odella while his father...
| Author | Sally M. Keehn |
| ISBN | 0698119207 |
The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she...
| Author | Sarah Masters Buckey |
| ISBN | 1584853069 |
4.5 stars. I loved this book. The only thing that would’ve made it better was it being written for an older audience and even more facts to learn about the setting and the historical significance of the time and place.
The Percy family lives on a farm outside Fort Number 4 on the NH frontier. It’s...
| Author | Tanita S. Davis |
| ISBN | 0375857141 |
Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past. Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn't your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up...
| Author | Jeannie Mobley |
| ISBN | 1442433434 |
In this moving debut, an immigrant girl discovers that hard work and determination can make dreams come true.
Katerina has a dream. It's her papa's dream, too. Her family came to America to buy their own farm. But a year later, Papa is still working in the dangerous coal mine. Each day, the farm...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0375938915 |
It's 1944, W.W. II is raging. Jayna's big brother Rob is her only family. When Rob is called to duty on a destroyer, Jayna is left in their small town in upstate New York with their cranky landlady. But right before he leaves, Rob tells Jayna a secret: they may have a grandmother in Brooklyn. Rob found a little...
| Author | Pat Raccio Hughes |
| ISBN | 0670012076 |
On July 4th, 1777, Jake Mallory and his friends are celebrating their new nation's independence in a small coastal town in Connecticut. Fourteen-yearold Jake wants nothing more than to get out from under the strict thumb of his father and see some adventure. But he learns too late that he must be careful...
Woman's Life in Colonial Days
First, this kind of book functions as two sorts of histories. A 1922 dude’s adorably condescending view of women (and some really nasty stuff about black humans being subhuman) plus actual research and fascinating quotes from the 17th and 18th centuries. It probably should make me despair, but it...
| Author | Diane Owens Prettyman |
Redesigning Emma transports us to the turn of the last century when Five Points gang leader held sway with the criminal element, Emily Post hosted the absurdly wealthy, and the mentally ill were shuttled into archaic asylums. This novel brings an entire era to life. Most vividly it shows us the world...
| Author | Gregory Mone |
| ISBN | 1596436735 |
A stowaway, a stolen book, a murderous villain: an adventure on the most famous shipwreck in history. The great ocean liner Titanic is preparing to cross the Atlantic. On board is a sinister thief bent on stealing a rare book that may be the key to unlocking infinite treasure, a wealthy academic...
Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt. Meanwhile, the great Chicago and Northwestern Railroad wants their land, and if the Whitcombs can't pay their loans, the local banker,...
In 1965 Saigon, Joe, a young draftee, becomes obsessed with a Vietnam girl named Mai, his own "Dragon Lady" from his beloved Terry and the Pirates cartoon strips that his mother still sends him. As he pursues a relationship with her, Saigon churns with intrigue and rumors--will the U.S. become more involved...
| Author | Clare Clark |
| ISBN | 0151014736 |
It is 1704 and, while the Sun King Louis XIV rules France from the splendour of Versailles, Louisiana, the new and vast colony named in his honour, is home to fewer than two hundred souls. When a demand is sent requesting wives be dispatched for the struggling settlers, Elisabeth is among the twenty-three...
| Author | Judy Petsonk |
| ISBN | 1470160935 |
Queen Salome Alexandra ruled Judea (modern-day Israel) in the first century BCE. Vividly evoking scenes of ancient Jerusalem, Judy Petsonk's novel brings to life the queen's stormy relationship with her husband, and her love for the people who called her Shalom-Zion: the peace of Zion. "A GRIPPING,...
| Author | Sandra Perez Gluschankoff |
| ISBN | 1625267193 |
After being inexplicably removed from her family in a small fishing town in Argentina, six year-old Angelina is sent to a Catholic convent where she spends her next twelve years. During her lonely days at the convent, she finds solace in the company of a mysterious presence, by the name of Sara Fernandez,...
| Author | Marc Tyler Nobleman |
I gave this four stars because it is one of the few chapter books about WWII that kids could read and relate to. There is not violence and no bad language.
Told in a series of letters written to his younger brother Charlie in Cleveland, Joe relates as much as he can about what life in the army is like...
| Author | C.P. Lesley |
| ISBN | 1947044206 |
WHO IS THE GOLDEN LYNX?
Russia, 1534. Elite clans battle for control of the toddler who will become their first tsar, Ivan the Terrible. Amid the chaos and upheaval, a masked man mysteriously appears night after night to aid the desperate people.
Or is he a man?
Sixteen-year-old...
