Wedding Bells Ahead

8 best books like Wedding Bells Ahead (Arleta Richardson): Other Words for Home, The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty, On the Banks of Plum Creek, The Tutor's Daughter, Kindred Souls, Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution, The Friendship Doll, Small as an Elephant

Other Words for Home

Author

Jasmine Warga

I am learning how to be
sad
and happy
at the same time.

Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati...

The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

Author	Susan Page
ISBN	1549170015

A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history.

Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country’s most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told.

THE MATRIARCH tells...

On the Banks of Plum Creek

Author	Laura Ingalls Wilder
ISBN	0060885408

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. They settle into a house made of sod on the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds them a sturdier house, with real glass windows and a hinged door....

The Tutor's Daughter

Author	Julie Klassen
ISBN	0764210696

Emma Smallwood, determined to help her widowed father regain his spirits when his academy fails, agrees to travel with him to the distant Cornwall coast, to the clifftop manor of a baronet and his four sons. But after they arrive and begin teaching the younger boys, mysterious things begin to happen...

Kindred Souls

Author	Patricia MacLachlan
ISBN	0060522976

Jake’s grandfather, Billy, hears the talk of birds, is eighty-eight years old, and is going to live forever. Even when Billy gets sick, Jake knows that everything will go on as always. But there’s one thing Billy wants: to rebuild the sod house where he grew up. Can Jake give him this one special thing?

From...

Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution

Author	Avi
ISBN	1442414413

Lives hang in the balance in this gripping Revolutionary War adventure from a beloved Newbery Medalist.

In 1776, young Sophia Calderwood witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which is newly occupied by the British army. Sophia is horrified by the event and resolves to do...

The Friendship Doll

Author	Kirby Larson
ISBN	0385737459

I am Miss Kanagawa. In 1927, my 57 doll-sisters and I were sent from Japan to America as Ambassadors of Friendship. Our work wasn't all peach blossoms and tea cakes. My story will take you from New York to Oregon, during the Great Depression. Though few in this tale are as fascinating as I, their stories...

Small as an Elephant

Author	Jennifer Richard Jacobson
ISBN	0763641553

Jack’s mom is gone, leaving him all alone on a campsite in Maine. Can he find his way back to Boston before the authorities realize what happened?

Ever since Jack can remember, his mom has been unpredictable, sometimes loving and fun, other times caught in a whirlwind of energy and "spinning"...