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When the Dolls Woke

10 best books like When the Dolls Woke (Marjorie Filley Stover): My Sweet Audrina, The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919, Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade, Wild Magic, The Little Gymnast, There's a Bat in Bunk Five, Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris, The Luckiest Girl, Coolie, Patti's Luck

My Sweet Audrina
AuthorV.C. Andrews
ISBN0671729462
V.C. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating new cast of characters in this haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love.
Audrina Adare wanted so to be as good as her sister. She knew...
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919
AuthorMark Thompson
ISBN0571223338
On the hardcover version of Mark Thompson’s The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, there’s a remarkable picture of tiny soldiers jumping out of their snow packed trenches. In front of them is the steep side of a mountain. Talk about the Mountains of Madness! But that’s pretty much the...
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
AuthorBarthe DeClements
ISBN0140344438
Jenny knows one thing for sure - Elsie Edwards is a fat thief who steals people's lunch money to buy candy. So when the book club money disappears, why is the whole class punished? Nothing's fair!
But soon Jenny realizes some things aren't fair for Elsie, either. Elsie is on a strict diet, but when she...
Wild Magic
AuthorCat Weatherill
ISBN0141321148
Dark, magical and exciting, Cat Weatherill's new fantasy takes the legend of the Pied Piper and gives it an unexpected twist.

Mari and her brother Jakob have followed the enchanted music and are now trapped in a world of wild magic. A world as cruel as it is beautiful. And all the time, they are...
The Little Gymnast
AuthorSheila Haigh
ISBN0590430157
FEBRUARY

as part of my personal reading challenges for 2017, once a month i will be revisiting a favorite book from when i was a little bitty karen and seeing if it holds up to my fond memories and determining if i can still enjoy it as an old and crotchety karen.

fingers crossed.

so:...
There's a Bat in Bunk Five
AuthorPaula Danziger
ISBN0142406813
In this book I think the author wants us to know that Marcy is a girl who doesn't really fit in with most people because of how she looks. Also Marcy and her father don't have a good connection.But when she goes to this special writing camp to be a counselor, her life just turns so much better. I think the author...
Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris
AuthorR.L. LaFevers
ISBN0618927646
I am officially in love with this series.
It was humorous, witty and full of adventure.

Some might think it a bit childlike books but wasn't Harry Potter suppose to be for children? I think my age has given me a chance to appreciate books more than as a child.

Theodosia's comments...
The Luckiest Girl
AuthorBeverly Cleary
ISBN0060532998
Shelley Latham can't wait to get to San Sebastian, where flowers bloom in November, oranges grow on the trees, and the sun shines almost every day. And once she's there, things get even better. In no time, she catches the attention of two boys: one, a good-looking basketball star, the other, an interesting,...
Coolie
AuthorMulk Raj Anand
ISBN0140186808
Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bomboy and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival...
Patti's Luck
AuthorSusan Saunders
ISBN0590406418
In this first book of the Sleepover Friends series, Stephanie invites a new girl in school, Patti, to the Friday-evening sleepovers she has with Lauren and Kate. During a TV movie, Kate imitates an actress and puts a curse on Patti and it seems to work. Only Lauren and Patti notice, but Patti can't do anything...
Across the Black Waters
AuthorMulk Raj Anand
ISBN0865780811
'Across the Black Waters' is an English novel by the Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1939. It describes the experience of Lalu, a sepoy in the Indian Army fighting on behalf of Britain against the Germans in France during World War I. He is portrayed by the author as an innocent peasant whose...
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