Winona's Pony Cart
10 best books like Winona's Pony Cart (Maud Hart Lovelace): More All-of-a-Kind Family, The Secret Language, Flambards, Happy Little Family, Then There Were Five, Henry Reed's Babysitting Service, Autumn Story, The Wouldbegoods, Betsy and Billy, Meet the Malones
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0929093100 |
In the third book of Sydney Taylor's classic children's series, Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew. Thus continues the tale of a Jewish family of five sisters-Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie-and little brother, Charlie, living at the turn of the century in...
| Author | Ursula Nordstrom |
| ISBN | 0064400220 |
At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School. Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl.Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Martha introduces Vicky to pie-beds, midnight feasts...
| Author | K.M. Peyton |
| ISBN | 0192719556 |
Description: A totally absorbing novel about twelve-year-old Christina who is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household, divided by emotional...
| Author | Rebecca Caudill |
| ISBN | 1883937728 |
It is a good thing that mothers understand what no one else seems to when you are the youngest child in the family, and are finally four years old. Bonnie is more than ready to join her older sisters and brother in the many adventures she sees come their way, whether it be sliding along the ice, searching for...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0805070621 |
This 1944 YA/middle grade novel is a charming, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, when kids explored the outdoors, swam in swimming holes, searched for Indian arrowheads, and fished for jumbo catfish. A livestock auction and homemade fair with a variety show of local talent provide enough excitement...
| Author | Keith Robertson |
| ISBN | 0140341463 |
Henry Reed has another sure-fire money-making plan--but the kids of Grover's Corner have plans of their own
An intelligent person like Henry should have no problem riding herd on the town's toddlers. But Henry's never tangled with such monsters as daredevil Danny, whose stunts keep Henry...
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0689830548 |
Bad weather is on the way and the autumn crops are still not gathered in! Quickly, all the mice of Brambly Hedge set to work to finish the harvesting before the rain begins. Primrose, Lord Woodmouse's daughter, meant to help, but somehow she daydreamed her way over the cornfield and into the Chestnut Woods,...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367519 |
Edith Nesbit’s life was certainly unconventional by late Victorian and Edwardian standards, and it’s not surprising that her own childhood experiences and adult observations find themselves thinly fictionalised in her novels, particularly those written for children. Typical is her re-use...
| Author | Carolyn Haywood |
| ISBN | 0152051007 |
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.
Second grade holds lots...
| Author | Lenora Mattingly Weber |
| ISBN | 0425014584 |
The introductory book of the Beany Malone series. Mary Fred spends the fifteen dollars that is intended for a new formal to buy her beloved Mr. Chips, a lame horse. Elizabeth's husband, Don, is sent overseas, and a weak and wan Elizabeth arrives at the Malones' with her two-week-old son, Martie. When...
| Author | Kate Douglas Wiggin |
| ISBN | 1594623678 |
Miss Miranda Sawyer's old-fashioned garden was the pleasantest spot in Riverboro on a sunny July morning. The rich color of the brick house gleamed and glowed through the shade of the elms and maples. Luxuriant hop-vines clambered up the lightning-rods and waterspouts, hanging their delicate clusters...
| Author | Lucille Travis |
| ISBN | 0836135466 |
Tirzah's people, the Israelites, have been in slavery to the Egyptians for many years. Tirzah and her lame brother, Oren, help gather straw to make bricks. She observes the suffering of her people and the injustices that are done to them by the Egyptian police. Moses begs Pharaoh to let them go, but Pharaoh...
| Author | Sharla Scannell Whalen |
| ISBN | 0963078305 |
Well. I'm certainly not surprised that I LOVED this book. It was five hundred pages of details and visits about "old friends" of mine, about whom I read in the Betsy-Tacy books. Since the books so closely paralleled MHL's own life, author Sharla Scannell Whalen pointed out the similarities and differences...
Mabel is done with high school and ready to teach her first year of school at a little country one-room schoolhouse. Her boyfriend, Russ, is pressuring her to make plans for their future wedding, but Mabel isn't ready to commit to a formal engagement. Meanwhile, Mabel has trouble with her country students...
| Author | Emily Bearn |
| ISBN | 0316085995 |
Tumtum and Nutmeg just want to live out their comfy lives in peace, unbothered by anything as distracting as an adventure. But the holidays are upon them, and it seems to be the time of year when Arthur and Lucy, the disheveled human children of Rose Cottage, and bumbling veteran hero General Marchmouse...
| Author | Susan Coolidge |
| ISBN | 1904417434 |
Lionel Young and his sister, Imogen, set out for the picturesque but remote High Valley in Colorado, leaving their hometown in Devonshire, England behind. Lionel wants to take the share in Geoffrey Templestowe’s cattle business. Imogen, owing to her prejudices against America and the American...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 1406931187 |
"Written for my own amusement," says Alcott herself? Well, the original readers she won over with LITTLE WOMEN and LITTLE MEN probably scooped up this whole bouquet of charming stories, which probably left a favorable fragrance and a curiosity as to what Ms. Alcott's next offering would be. Today's...
| Author | Charles Tritten |
| ISBN | 0307122212 |
When I was seven or eight, there was a block of flats near my home which were condemned. My sister, her friend and I spent several afternoons exploring the old flats. In one of them, I found abandoned copies of Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Song. I read them, loved them, and lost them.
In need of comfort...
| Author | Lois Lenski |
| ISBN | 0397316070 |
Suzanna, better known as Shoo-fly, is the spunky middle child in her large Amish family. The family loves nicknames so each child is affectionately known by a suitable moniker instead of their given name. Shoo-fly earns her nickname in the first chapter so you won’t have to wait long to see just how...
