Who Comes with Cannons?
10 best books like Who Comes with Cannons? (Patricia Beatty): Matilda Bone, Remembering Mrs. Rossi, Shakespeare's Spy, Moon Bridge, From Anna, True North, Evvy's Civil War, The Tamarack Tree, Bull Run, Overboard
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0440418224 |
Newbery medalist Karen Cushman assembles a cast of unforgettable characters in a fascinating and pungent setting: the medical quarter of a medieval English Village. To Blood and Bone Alley, home of leech, barber-surgeon, and apothecary, comes Matilda, raised by a priest to be pious and learned,...
| Author | Amy Hest |
| ISBN | 0763621633 |
Mementos from her mother's students help a young girl to grieve in a middle-grade novel by award-winning author Amy Hest.
Eight-year-old Annie lives in a sunny apartment in Manhattan with her father, Professor Rossi. Life would be pretty good if only Annie didn't so achingly miss her mother....
| Author | Gary L. Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0142403113 |
Things are disappearing mysteriously from Will Shakespeare's acting company, and it looks like an inside job. Everyone's eyes are on Widge, the orphan boy turned actor, and former thief. Widge knows better than anyone that Shakespeare's plays must be protected at all costs. In order to prove his innocence...
| Author | Marcia Savin |
| ISBN | 0590437658 |
In all honesty, I could not finish this book. I found it..unreadable as it is now. Maybe I could have felt different about this book if I had tried reading it as a child--when I knew nothing about what makes good literature and writing--but I am an avid reader and someone who has thrived off of trying to understand...
| Author | Jean Little |
| ISBN | 0064400441 |
Moving is never easy, especially when you're a little 9-year-old girl moving from the tumult of living in Nazi Germany to Canada in the 1930s. And if you're clumsy and your older brothers and sisters all call you "Awkward Anna" as well, it's even worse. In award-winning writer Jean Little's poignant...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0590205242 |
I think everyone needs to read this book. It is an eye opening experience to what the Underground Railroad was like. The book stars two 14 year old girls: Lucy, whose family is rich and white, and Afrika, an escaped slave girl. Their paths get closer and closer throughout the book, as Lucy discovers some...
| Author | Miriam Brenaman |
| ISBN | 0399237135 |
On her fourteenth birthday in June of 1861, spunky Evelyn Chamberlyn finds herself stuffed into a corset, a dress with hoops and a hairstyle so ornate she calls it the Edifice. It is time for her to be introduced to society-no more climbing fences and jumping into streams. She is expected to be a lady now....
| Author | Patricia Clapp |
| ISBN | 0140324062 |
Orphaned at thirteen, Rosemary Leigh was transplanted from England to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1859. Four years later, to distract her from her fear as cannonballs batter the besieged city, Rosemary writes about what she has been through.While she has been growing up, enjoying the social pleasures...
| Author | Paul Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0064405885 |
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book
In this brilliant fictional tour de force, which the New York Times called "a deft, poignant novel," Newbery Medal-winning author Paul Fleischman re-creates the first...
| Author | Elizabeth Fama |
| ISBN | 0553494368 |
One moment of rashness, and fourteen-year-old Emily Slake finds herself amid hundreds of panicked and drowning people in the dark ocean waters off Sumatra. Miles from shore without a life vest, she resolves to survive. But in facing the dangers of the ocean, the desperation of her fellow survivors,...
| Author | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 1551436248 |
Rose's idyllic existence in sixteenth century France is destroyed when her father dies, and her mother--a midwife and healer to half the families in the town--is arrested and accused of being a witch. When her mother begs Rose to save herself, Rose must weigh the terror of death against the pain of life...
| Author | Katrin Hyman Tchana |
| ISBN | 0823419991 |
This celebration of feminine power, beauty, and complexity tells the stories of ten goddesses from cultures the world over. There is tremendous variety in this volume including the stories of Kuay Yin, the compassionate Buddhist goddess; Durga, the fierce Hindu warrior goddess; lx Chel, an ancient...
| Author | Margaret Bechard |
| ISBN | 1596430583 |
Jack knows who belongs out in the Black. And who doesn't -- until Kit comes walking into the pub and changes everything he believes about the Black, about the people who live there, about what it takes to be a human being. Margaret Bechard set out to write an adventure story with laser guns ad spaceships....
| Author | Catherine Thimmesh |
| ISBN | 0618507574 |
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
| Author | Janet S. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0439707846 |
For thirteen-year-old Ellsworth, family has always been just him and his dad. That's all Ellsworth thought he wanted. But then the dreams start. Dreams of houses surrounding a beautiful green square. Suddenly a letter arrives, inviting Ellsworth to a home he doesn't remember: the Square in Smith...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0152167889 |
How could Lizzy Enders's father abandon her at a girls school run by nuns? She's surrounded by Catholics--but she's Methodist! Shunned by the other boarders, Lizzy befriends a wandering carpenter named José, who with just three tools--and unflagging faith--builds an elaborate spiral staircase...
| Author | Adele Griffin |
| ISBN | 0399237852 |
Life isn't easy for vegetarian vampires trying to blend in with regular people in a new city. The Livingstone kids are fruit bat hybrids who have left Old World dangers, and immortality, behind for a "normal" life in New York City. But normal doesn't necessarily mean easy, especially with lingering...
Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots, and Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches her how to earn the tiger's trust....
| Author | Elisa Carbone |
| ISBN | 0440418798 |
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...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0679818634 |
Wow did this one surprise me. It's a collection of short horror stories, mostly based on African American folktales and set in the deep south. This was published by Scholastic, so I was expecting stories aimed at children. While technically I guess they are, the stories are much darker and mature than...
| Author | Jane Buchanan |
| ISBN | 0141303158 |
خیلی قشنگ بود، دوستش داشتم.
فکر میکردم پایان خوشش اذیتم بکنه، اما نکرد. .
| Author | Mary Francis Shura |
| ISBN | 0590435000 |
Personal Response: I enjoyed Gentle Annie because it combined history and entertainment so that more people would read it. The book is written well and has many good plot points. I like the way that the book is based on real events yet had enough fiction to keep the reader wanting to read more. I especially...
| Author | Felice Holman |
| ISBN | 0140319301 |
A wise retired teacher in my church recommended this book to me. Probably appropriate for late middle school to Jr high, kids, it is also a great read for grownups—especially onsiderin* the times we find ourselves in now, where the old America we knew and loved has been overwhelmed with Russia and its...
| Author | Marietta D. Moskin |
| ISBN | 0735102252 |
I gave this book five star because it was one of my favorite books when I was in middle/high school. It was the catalyst for me reading everything I could find at the time about the Holocaust. Looking back on it with the knowledge gained over the years, I have to say it sounds very unrealistic--Rosemarie...
