Who Is Frances Rain?
10 best books like Who Is Frances Rain? (Margaret Buffie): Underground to Canada, The Root Cellar, Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen, The Little Gymnast, I Am Regina, The Mob, Hero of Lesser Causes, Spirit Seeker, The Third Magic, A Handful of Time
| Author | Barbara Smucker |
| ISBN | 0141306866 |
Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend...
| Author | Janet Lunn |
| ISBN | 0140318356 |
This is another wonderful orphan story and time travel story.
It reminded me of many other books including Time At The Top, The Twins at Thatchem Quickett, A Long Way to Go, Homecoming, and The Secret Garden (mentioned in the book); all are books I’ve enjoyed.
I love that these people...
| Author | Perry Nodelman |
| ISBN | 0439961300 |
Not a Nickel to Spare is about Sally Cohen, a young girl who faces the difficulties of depression. But on top of worrying about having enough money to survive, Sally also faces the difficulties of being a jewish. With her cousin, Benny, Sally has many exciting adventures that help Sally face her fears...
| Author | Sheila Haigh |
| ISBN | 0590430157 |
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:...
| Author | Sally M. Keehn |
| ISBN | 0698119207 |
The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she...
| Author | Clem Martini |
| ISBN | 1553375742 |
The Mob is the saga of a crow family, the Kinaars, who are faced with troubled times. When the family converges for the annual Gathering, a mob mounts a revenge attack on a cat with disastrous consequences. The Gathering should be a time to rejoice. Instead, it becomes a time of fear, danger and uncertainty,...
| Author | Julie Johnston |
| ISBN | 0887766498 |
World War II has just been won, and everything seems possible to young Keely Connor. She sees herself as a hero on a white charger, able to conquer the world, even though in reality her charger is Lola, the placid horse that lives in the field behind her house.
One fateful summer day her brother...
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440226856 |
For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Spirit Seeker from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.
Holly Campbell’s life has suddenly become a newspaper-headline nightmare. The parents of her friend Cody Garnett...
| Author | Welwyn Wilton Katz |
| ISBN | 0888993854 |
Fifteen-year-old Morgan Lefevre is mistaken for one of her ancestors while visiting Tintagel, King Arthur's birthplace in England. In this vivid and innovative interpretation of the King Arthur legend, she is summoned through time to the alien world of Nwm. With her only companion, the boy Arduu,...
When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new friends. When she arrives at the cottage, her worst fears come true: her cousin Kelly teases...
| Author | Gayle Friesen |
| ISBN | 1550744631 |
Fourteen-year-old Claire and her mother, Jane, are on their way across the country to visit Claire's grandmother. As they approach the family farm, Claire watches her mother become more and more anxious. Until now, she thought they had an open relationship with a healthy respect for each other's privacy....
| Author | Richie Tankersley Cusick |
| ISBN | 0671709569 |
A "vampire" serial killer is on the prowl. He exsanguinates women by slitting their throats, leaving makeshift puncture wounds on their necks as his signature. This may not exactly be what vampo-philes signed up for when they got in on the craze, but what do I know? What's certain is that it seems like...
| Author | Debbie Federici |
| ISBN | 0738708089 |
Teenagers are mysteriously disappearing in Tucson, Arizona, and other cities. One night, seventeen-year-old Taryn nearly becomes one of them when a revolting, unearthly creature attacks her. The touch of a Zumar warrior should render her unconscious, but Taryn has the strength to fight until a...
| Author | D.E. Athkins |
| ISBN | 0590452460 |
Dore Grey is a very beautiful girl. She's a high school senior who has won countless beauty pageants, and she has a steady boyfriend, Stan. Dore knows she’s beautiful; her whole life is based on her beauty. But she wants more from life.
There is a new girl in school called Luci. Dore thinks of...
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689806574 |
From the moment she set eyes on the three Foster kids, Darcy knew being their baby-sitter would be no picnic. But the pay was twice her usual rate, and the job was only for a few hours a day - surely an experienced baby-sitter like her could handle it.
But Darcy hadn't counted on the mysterious things...
| Author | Sinclair Smith |
| ISBN | 0590551353 |
I don't even know what to say here. I'm so totally meh about this book. I remember never caring for it, even as a preteen, and I wondered if that had changed. Sometimes my opinion on these books does change - I didn't like The Lifeguard much when I was young, and now I think it's great - but as far as The Waitress...
