Winter Cottage
10 best books like Winter Cottage (Carol Ryrie Brink): Laura's Luck, Sue Barton, Student Nurse, The Mitchells: Five for Victory, Nancy and Plum, Jane-Emily, Time at the Top, Magic Elizabeth, Sarah's Story, Return to Gone-Away, Prairie School
| Author | Marilyn Sachs |
| ISBN | 0595175902 |
We really enjoyed this account of Laura's 8 week stay at a summer camp. Nothing out of the ordinary happens, but we get to see 12 yr old Laura come from the city, get used to the outdoors, trying things outside her comfort zone, make friends and experience nature.
Laura likes reading and finds it...
| Author | Helen Dore Boylston |
| ISBN | 0370009010 |
This is the story of Sue Barton's first year of training as a probationer and then as a student nurse. Sue, with her red hair and eager spirit, is a very likable person - direct, outspoken, capable of mistakes, capable also of warm attachments and a courageous devotion to the service which she soon loves....
| Author | Hilda van Stockum |
| ISBN | 1883937051 |
The five Mitchell children are based on the author's own family. In the first of three books about their adventures, Daddy has just gone off to World War II. One of his final words to his daughter Joan is, "No dogs " She would dearly love such a pet, but life is full and so many new friends -- pets as well as people...
| Author | Betty MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0704102927 |
"Nancy and Plum" is a delightful old fashioned Christmas story about two sisters, Nancy, 10 and Plum, 8, whose parents died in an accident. Their only surviving relative is Uncle John, a wealthy bachelor with little patience or time for children. He puts the girls in Mrs. Monday's Boarding School in...
| Author | Patricia Clapp |
| ISBN | 0688045928 |
Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago.
Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane’s grandmother’s house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts....
| Author | Edward Ormondroyd |
| ISBN | 1930900198 |
It's strange enough when Susan Shaw disappears without a trace on a wintry March afternoon. It's stranger still when her uninformative note is found in the hallway of her apartment building, along with a black cat that no one has seen before. And it's strangest of all when she suddenly appears again,...
| Author | Norma Kassirer |
| ISBN | 0064407489 |
Eight-year-old Sally faces an entire summer trapped in a creepy old house with no one for company but her spooky Aunt Sarah and a black cat named Shadow. But soon Sally uncovers a mystery about a beautiful old doll in a portrait -- and a little girl who looks just like Sally herself! In search of clues, Sally...
| Author | Ruth Elwin Harris |
| ISBN | 0763617075 |
(Originally published in Britain as The Silent Shore.)
Four independent-minded sisters come of age in the early 1900s -- and four interwoven novels tell their stories, each through a different sister's eyes.
The year is 1910, and the four Purcell sisters have only each other. Their...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0152022635 |
A wish come true. That's what Portia thinks when her parents buy Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along the swampy edge of Gone-Away Lake. A new house is always full of surprises, but Porcia is completely unprepared for the extraordinary things that happen when her family moves into a new...
| Author | Lois Lenski |
| ISBN | 0440470803 |
This story is based on a real life snowstorm in the 1950's. In rural area of Nebraska two children and their teacher get snowed up in the school house. There were some nice details of family life, the different foods families ate and day to day life that seems like much further back in time than 70 years ago....
| Author | William McCleery |
| ISBN | 0208021914 |
This irresistible book is about: a father (intelligent, patient, an inventive storyteller); his five-year-old son Michael (intelligent, crafty, addicted to stories); and a story.It is a Wolf Story, which begins one night at bedtime and is spun into soap opera proportions over subsequent bedtimes...
| Author | Margot Benary-Isbert |
| ISBN | 0152039015 |
This is one of my favorite books of all time! I love the rich descriptions, whether of the natural beauty of the countryside or of the little rooms the refugee family stays in after the war, and the characters are so well-portrayed that I feel I truly know them and have grown to love them so much. This is a story...
| Author | Eleanor Graham |
| ISBN | 1903155193 |
I first read about this book in the Persephone catalog and was drawn to it because its story of junior housekeepers was similar to a children's book I loved, "The Boxcar Children" by Gertrude Chandler Warner.
In "The Children Who Lived in a Barn," five children have to fend for themselves in 1930s...
I first read The Great and Terrible Quest by Margaret Lovett at the age of around 11 or 12, and a friend inspired me to re-read it this month. I remember liking it at that age and being very impressed by the characters, plot, and ending, but I regret that I didn't fully appreciate it back then. I very vaguely...
| Author | Bernice Thurman Hunter |
| ISBN | 0590710826 |
Booky didn't know much about the reasons for the Great Depression. All she knew was that she was hungry all the time, that her parents fought constantly, that the bailiff would soon return to evict her family from their home. Worst of all, she knew that Christmas would be a time of empty stockings instead...
| Author | Jeannie Mobley |
| ISBN | 1442433434 |
In this moving debut, an immigrant girl discovers that hard work and determination can make dreams come true.
Katerina has a dream. It's her papa's dream, too. Her family came to America to buy their own farm. But a year later, Papa is still working in the dangerous coal mine. Each day, the farm...
| Author | Kate Seredy |
| ISBN | 1930900260 |
No one had ever seen big Peter before, and no one ever saw him again, and no one ever saw him at all but small Peter who lived in dingy, squalid old Shantytown. Yet it was big Peter's gift to small Peter -- a shiny toy spade with a red handle, and a small green tree lighted with tiny candles -- that caused Shantytown...
Reread for the umpteenth time, because I'm wretchedly ill and in need of a comfort read. This is the coziest book, filled with hikes in the snowy woods, fudge-making, cats, sweet gingham dresses, mothers who greet you after school with fresh chocolate cake, and skating parties. I wish Catherine Woolley's...
| Author | Evelyn Sibley Lampman |
| ISBN | 0689704933 |
2019 Review
Between this book and Howl's Moving Castle, I think I need to go back and re-read all my old favorites. You see, I've been grossly deceived. In my memory the romance plays out in the last chapter and the rest of the book is about pioneer life or something.
Y'all, THE ENTIRE BOOK CENTERS...
| Author | Charlotte Zolotow |
| ISBN | 0064432173 |
I liked this story quite a bit. I thought the illustrations were quite charming, although the style is quite old and may not be as appealing to readers today.
The story was sweet - a protective older sibling cares for her younger sister, doing her best to take care of her. The younger sister desires...
| Author | Jean Little |
| ISBN | 0670875937 |
An inspiring story of self discovery. In Jean Little's first historical novel, Elspet Mary, a young Scottish orphan, embarks on the journey of a lifetime when she emigrates with relatives to Canada in the 1840s. Her struggle to make a place for herself, not only in her adoptive family but in her new home...
| Author | Emily Carr |
| ISBN | 1553650557 |
The legendary Emily Carr was acclaimed as both an artist and a writer. Her first book, Klee Wyck, won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction in 1941.
The Book of Small
is a collection of thirty-six word sketches in which Emily Carr relates anecdotes...
