When the Soldiers Were Gone
10 best books like When the Soldiers Were Gone (Vera W. Propp): Princess Academy, The Grief Keeper, Holy Bible: New International Version, Hawksong, Santa Paws, Dawn and the Impossible Three, Warrior Princess, The Third Wheel, The Cats In Krasinski Square, Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story
| Author | Shannon Hale |
| ISBN | 1599900734 |
Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of...
| Author | Alexandra Villasante |
This stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom.
Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's...
Holy Bible: New International Version
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0310902711 |
Holy shit (literally). This book is riveting. It is a fictional novel based on the life of a guy named Jesus who is one badass motherfucker. The book chronicles some of his totally rad and awesome adventures, such as turning water into wine and coming out of a cave after he died! Any lover of fictional adventure...
| Author | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes |
DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk’s form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between her people and the serpiente for so long, no one can remember how the fighting began....
| Author | Nicholas Edwards |
| ISBN | 0590624008 |
I love these books. They may not be on my reading level and I may only think they're good because of nostalgia and dog love, but I love them regardless. Santa Paws, er, Nick, is adorable - a modern day Lassie, as the book jokes, and probably the best example of a truly altruistic character you'll ever find...
Dawn and the Impossible Three
| Author | Gale Galligan |
| ISBN | 1338067117 |
Dawn Schafer is the newest member of The Baby-sitters Club. While she's still adjusting to life in Stoneybrook after moving from sunny California, she's eager to accept her first big job. But taking care of the three Barrett kids would be too much for any baby-sitter. The house is always a mess, the kids...
| Author | Allan Frewin Jones |
| ISBN | 0060871431 |
"you can be a warrior, if you choose to be."
It takes just a moment for fifteen-year-old Branwen's life to change forever. In the blink of an eye the Saxons attack and her brother is killed. Almost as quickly, she is sent away from her home to a neighboring stronghold where she'll be safe from harm....
| Author | Jeff Kinney |
| ISBN | 1419705849 |
Love is in the air - but what does that mean for Greg Heffley?A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on the big night. His best friend, Rowley, doesn't have any prospects either, but that's...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0439435404 |
Newbery medalist Karen Hesse tells a harrowing, true story about life in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
When Karen Hesse came upon a short article about cats out-foxing the Gestapo at the train station in Warsaw during WWII, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. The result is this stirring account...
| Author | Malka Drucker |
| ISBN | 0440409659 |
this was kinda of a sad book because a lot of people died. the book is baised on a true story the main person,jacob,helped make the book. he lost his aunt hannah, a vary good friend who's name is yurek ,his mom, brother, and grandma. two vary brave people, alex and mela rosela, did the most dangrous thing you...
The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones
| Author | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| ISBN | 1101940417 |
Award-winning author Wendelin Van Draanen gives us a brilliantly fresh and funny story about a boy learning to become the brave hero of his own life. Perfect for fans of Counting by 7s and The Fourteenth Goldfish.
My secret life is filled with psychic vampires, wheelchair zombies, chain-rattlin’...
