When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up
10 best books like When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up (Amy Ehrlich): King Stork, The Story of a Bad Boy, The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Guys Write for Guys Read, Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs, I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book, Those Rebels, John & Tom, Canterbury Tales, The Mouse of Amherst: A Tale of Young Readers, Open Letter to Quiet Light
| Author | Howard Pyle |
| ISBN | 0688158137 |
Minimal dragons and lions, despite what the blurb implies. No dragons, no lions, despite what the blurb says. I can't tell for sure, but I don't think the text is Pyle's original (despite no mention of an adaptation, when I find picture captions for Pyle's original art the language is much more archaic)....
| Author | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1406806641 |
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
| Author | Peter Sís |
| ISBN | 0374380694 |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot—and that was when his adventures began. He found a job delivering mail by plane, which had never been done before. He and his fellow pilots traveled to faraway...
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 0670060275 |
What is a typical guy moment, anyhow? Daniel Pinkwater remembers the disappointment of meeting his Lone Star Ranger hero up close and personal. Gordon Korman relishes the goofy ultra violence of the old Looney Tunes cartoons. Stephen King realizes that having your two hundred-pound babysitter fart...
| Author | Betsy Hearne |
| ISBN | 0689863470 |
Eleven-year-old Louise Tolliver lives with her mother and her brother, Willie, in Tollivers' Hollow. Like any brother, Willie gives Louise a hard time, but the trouble really starts when Louise calls him a pig -- and he becomes one.
And that's not all. Louise's father has been missing for seven...
| Author | Iona Opie |
| ISBN | 0763611999 |
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 0545222680 |
A brilliant portrait of two American heroes from the award-winning creators of The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy)!
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were very different.
John Adams was short and stout.
Thomas Jefferson was tall and lean.
John was argumentative...
| Author | Barbara Cohen |
| ISBN | 0688062016 |
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. "The Canterbury Tales" gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid...
| Author | Elizabeth Spires |
| ISBN | 0374454116 |
A mouse's-eye-view of Emily Dickinson
When a mouse named Emmaline takes up residence behind the wainscoting of Emily Dickinson's bedroom, she wonders what it is that keeps Emily scribbling at her writing table throughout the day and into the night. Emmaline sneaks a look, and finds that it's...
| Author | Francesca Lia Block |
| ISBN | 1933149302 |
“[Francesca Lia Block] is the sorceress of iridescent language.”—Kirkus Reviews
Open Letter to Quiet Light will make readers feel as if they are peering at secret writings meant for the eyes of a lover alone, but these carefully crafted lines somehow transcend the personal to touch...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0152241272 |
When their father accepts a new job in England, July, Liberty, and their family find themselves exploring the foggy streets of London. The twins try to discover the source of the voice only they can hear--a voice that needs their help. Using telepathy and their individual talents, the twins uncover...
| Author | John Gosselink |
| ISBN | 0810989778 |
Designed like a case file, chock-full of notes, journal entries, letters, e-mails, illustrations, and more, The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter is a hilarious middle-grade novel that argues why Thaddeus should be released from his in-school suspension and explains the unbelievable circumstances...
| Author | Robert Byrd |
| ISBN | 0803737491 |
In this informative book all about the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, author Robert Byrd uses text and vibrant art to show the many ways Ben Franklin contributed to American history. He was a printer, writer, publisher, inventor, and founding Father of the new American nation. Most...
| Author | Ann Durell |
| ISBN | 0525446052 |
This very special volume was created by more than thirty of the best known and loved authors and illustrators of children's books.
Summary: The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories and poems by outstanding authors of today such as Jean Fritz,...
| Author | DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan |
“An optimistic tale that manages to be both encouraging yet realistic about how to do some good in your very own backyard.” —Kirkus
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of City Green—the environmentally and community-conscious classic that shows the wonderful things kids can do when...
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0698119096 |
This is Tomie dePaola's second "26 Fairmount Avenue" book, his autobiographical series about his childhood. I loved the first one, 26 Fairmount Avenue, and read it to all of my library classes last year. Since then, I've always planned to read more of the series. I found this second book in the series...
| Author | Patricia Lee Gauch |
| ISBN | 0698116763 |
This was my all time, number one, absolute favorite book when I was a child. It's one of those things that has survived my many moves, and not on accident.
The illustrations are simple but absolutely beautiful and perfectly fitting with the theme of imagination. They're almost deceptively...
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0439141346 |
1 Finn Maccoul - Boy eats magic salmon for Irish poetry, weds girl evil Druid transformed to doe.
2 Beowulf - He slays Grendel for besieged King Hothgar of Denmark but monster mother leaves marsh for revenge.
3 Sword in the Stone - Boy Merlin tells evil king, red dragon slain is his future, hides...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0689712634 |
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ― Anatole France
Sheesh - I am becoming such a maudlin old broad! I don't know . . . maybe it's just raging hormones, but nearly every story in this collection moved me to tears. Rylant presents twelve very short...
Looking Back: A Book of Memories
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0385326998 |
People are constantly asking two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry where she gets her ideas. In this fascinating memoir, Lowry answers this question, through recollections of childhood friends and pictures and memories that explore her rich family history. She recounts the pivotal moments that...
The Journal Of Joshua Loper, A Black Cowboy
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0590026917 |
Well let me start off by saying I only know about cowboys from books and movies. So this was enlightening about the cattle drive cowboys.
This is from the series My Name Is America, A Dear America book. This is the boys version of the historical fiction diaries.
In this one we get to know...
In Code: A Mathematical Journey
| Author | Sarah Flannery |
| ISBN | 1565123778 |
In January 1999, Sarah Flannery, a sports-loving teenager from Blarney in County Cork, Ireland, was awarded Ireland's Young Scientist of the Year for her extraordinary research and discoveries in Internet cryptography. The following day, her story began appearing in Irish papers and soon after...
Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0679887911 |
"A master of those embarrassing, gloppy, painful, and suddenly wonderful
things that happen on the razor's edge between childhood and full-fledged
adolescence" (The Washington Post), Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned
his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor,...
Henry the VIII and His Chopping Block
| Author | Alan MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0439211255 |
I'm pretty into the Tudors at the moment and have been reading about them loads, mostly historical fiction. However the other day I read a factual story of Anne Boleyn which pretty much discredits all the things we know about her since she argues that most things written about Anne are done so by her enemies,...
Blues: For All the Changes
| Author | Nikki Giovanni |
| ISBN | 0688156983 |
Intimate, edgy, and unapologetic, Blues: For All the Changes bears the mark of Nikki Giovanni's unmistakable voice.In a career that has spanned three decades, Giovanni has created an indispensable body of work and earned a place amoung the nation's most celebrated and controversial poets; Gloria...
