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10 best books like Walk Across the Sea (Susan Fletcher): The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin, Blue Skin of the Sea, The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War, Blue Fingers: A Ninja's Tale, Trouble's Daughter: The Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive, Stop the Train!, Heck Superhero, Storm Warriors, Nowhere to Call Home, Summerhouse Time

The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin
AuthorBailey MacDonald
The play’s the thing . . .

To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the Crown and forced them into hiding....
Blue Skin of the Sea
AuthorGraham Salisbury
ISBN0440219051
Eleven interlinked stories tell the tale of a boy coming of age in Kailua-Kona, a Hawaiian fishing village. Sonny Mendoza is a little different from the rest of the men in his family. Salisbury explores characters like Aunty Pearl, a full-blooded Hawaiian as regal as the queens of old; cool Jack, from...
The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War
AuthorCarol Matas
ISBN0689843585
Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1862
Hannah Green can't believe what happens to her family after the war breaks out. First, her sister Joanna falls in love with a Union soldier -- an enemy. Next, the same soldier tells Hannah and her family about General Grant's General Order #11, which commands all...
Blue Fingers: A Ninja's Tale
AuthorCheryl Aylward Whitesel
ISBN0618381392
The power and prowess of ninja never seem to lose their appeal to young readers, especially boys. Blue Fingers, a suspenseful, action-packed coming-of-age story set in feudal Japan, offers an up-close look at this noble, fierce way of life.
Through an odd twist of fate, a stubborn twelve-year-old...
Trouble's Daughter: The Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive
AuthorKatherine Kirkpatrick
ISBN0440415799
I like stories about culture. It's why Clan of the Cave Bear is one of my favorite books. When I was in sixth grade I discovered the book Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski. I read the book several times. I loved that book. As a result throughout my 7th grade year at school, I read what I...
Stop the Train!
AuthorGeraldine McCaughrean
ISBN0060507519
Cissy Sissney and her family are staking their claim. Along with a handful of other entrepreneurs, they've stepped off the train into the brand-new town of Florence, Oklahoma, and started building a future.

But the president of the railroad says no more trains will stop in Florence -- ever....
Heck Superhero
AuthorMartine Leavitt
ISBN1886910944
I get the feeling that Leavitt does not really know about comics or what comics a 13-year-old (I think he was supposed to be 13) who loves comics would be familiar with in this day and age. Especially one who is presented as unsheltered and has supposedly been taking care of himself and his mother a long time....
Storm Warriors
AuthorElisa Carbone
ISBN0440418798
Driven from his home by the Ku Klux Klan and still reeling from the death of his mother, Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to the desolate Pea Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to start a new life. Fortunately, life on Pea Island at the end of the 19th century is far from quiet.  The...
Nowhere to Call Home
AuthorCynthia C. DeFelice
ISBN0380733064
Unable to cope with the financial ruin caused by the Great Depression, Frances's father has taken his own life. Sad and bewildered, Frances cashes in the railroad ticket that would have carried her to her aunt's home, trades in her dress for trousers and a cap, and hits the rails as a hobo called Frankie...
Summerhouse Time
AuthorEileen Spinelli
ISBN0375840613
Every year a rented pink cottage full of family, swapping stories, and riding waves mean Summerhouse Time for Sophie. Best of all is sharing a room with her favorite cousin and laughing and trading secrets like two happy peas in a cousin pod. Sophie can't wait! But when she asks the now-a-teenager Colleen...
All the Way Home
AuthorPatricia Reilly Giff
ISBN0440411823
It’s August 1941, and Brick and Mariel both love the Brooklyn Dodgers. Brick listens to their games on the radio in Windy Hill, in upstate New York, where his family has an apple orchard; Mariel, once a polio patient in the hospital in Windy Hill, lives in Brooklyn near the Dodgers’ home, Ebbets Field....
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
AuthorLenore Look
ISBN0689864604
When Ruby's cousin Flying Duck emigrates from China to live with her, Ruby decides the best thing about Flying Duck is that she is a great new friend. BUT the worst thing about Flying Duck is that now, no one speaks English at home. Plus, there's strange food on the table every night and only chopsticks to...
The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed
AuthorHeather Vogel Frederick
ISBN0689848692
October 1835. Patience Goodspeed, almost thirteen years old, departs from Nantucket aboard her father's whaling ship. Between kitchen duty and whale blubber stench, this voyage is far from a pleasure cruise. At least Papa lets Patience assist the ship's navigator since she's so good at calculations....
Anna Is Still Here
AuthorIda Vos
ISBN0395653681
Sigh...and the Summer Curse continues.

Even aside from the bland writing and unimpressive plot, it still would've been an okay story if Anna hadn't become so unlikeable by the end of it. The way she bullied that poor innocent boy, Stefan, was disgusting. And not much is said about it. This isn't...
Charlotte's Rose
AuthorAnn Edwards Cannon
ISBN0385729669
I will carry that baby to Zion,” I shout at them, “just see if I don’t!”

Well! I did it! I have left them all quite speechless.

In 1856, 12-year-old Charlotte and her widowed father are members of a Welsh handcart company on the Mormon Trail, so poor they cannot afford wagons but...
Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave
AuthorAnn Rinaldi
-POTENTIAL SPOILERS-

Oh, Ann Rinaldi. I've read almost all of your books and the most I can say is that they're a definite acquired taste.

She has a knack for randomly switching the speed of her pacing-sometimes the story is paced extremely slowly, and other times it's really fast....
A Company of Fools
AuthorDeborah Ellis
ISBN1550417215
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, Honour Book
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, Honour Book
Mr. Christie Silver Book Award
Ruth Schwartz Award, finalist
Manitoba Young Readers_ Choice Award, nominee
Rocky Mountain Book Award, nominee

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Homefront
AuthorDoris Gwaltney
ISBN0689868421
For as long as Margaret Ann Motley can remember, she has been waiting and hoping for one thing -- a room to call her very own. And when Margaret's older sister leaves for college, it looks like Margaret's days of waiting are over. But then disaster strikes. Its form: an English cousin named Courtney who...
Farewell to the Island
AuthorGloria Whelan
ISBN1882376927
The year is 1816, and the war between England and the United States has come to an end. Once again the American flag flies proudly over the remote island of Mackinac, which Mary O'Shea calls home. Now for the first time in her life, Mary is leaving that island - traveling to London to visit her sister Angelique....
Warriors in the Crossfire
AuthorNancy Bo Flood
ISBN1590786610
On the island of Saipan, in the South Pacific, the second world war is a distant idea. The Japanese have governed the island for twenty-five years and they mix regularly with the native islanders. Though no one questions who holds power, the two peoples coexist peacefully.

Joseph has known...
A Friendship For Today
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Patricia McKissack comes a powerful, poignant, and timely tale of segregation, family, and one surprising friendship.

The year is 1954, the place is Missouri, and twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history. She is one of the...
Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook
AuthorBeverly Patt
ISBN0761455779
Tweens are likely to identify strongly with the sensitively-drawn characters in Beverly Patt's new scrapbook/novel that tells the story of a close friendship between 14-year old Louise and her best friend Dottie Masuoka during World War II. Louise starts the scrapbook when the Masuoka family and...
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