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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorCarrie's War
Nina Bawden · 208 pages
Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister, Lou, who suddenly starts having secrets. Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's
Changes for Molly: A Winter Story
Valerie Tripp · 67 pages
Molly's excitement at performing in a big show is exceeded only by the announcement that her father is returning home from the war.
Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson · 219 pages
Having felt deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 335 pages
When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to
Molly Story Collection
Valerie Tripp, Nick Backes, Keith Skeen
Summer of my German Soldier
Bette Greene · 230 pages
When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi--but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own, who understands and appreciates her in a way her parents never will. And
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 256 pages
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
The House of Sixty Fathers
Meindert DeJong · 189 pages
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home. The novel was based on the author's own experiences as a military flier in China during the Second World War. The book won the Josette Frank
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
Judy Blume · 298 pages
After 10-year-old Jewish Sally Jane Freedman's brother Douglas gets sick with a kidney infection, her family temporarily moves for a year after World War II.
A Spy on the Home Front: A Molly Mystery
Alison Hart · 165 pages
During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II.
The Lily Pond
Annika Thor · 220 pages
Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.
Journey to America
Sonia Levitin · 185 pages
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united.
The Romeo And Juliet Code
Phoebe Stone
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
Megan Shepherd
The Machine Gunners
Robert Westall · 189 pages
After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it.
Fog Magic
Julia L. Sauer · 107 pages
A child of Nova Scotia who loves the fog is transported by it to a secret world of her own. A 1944 Newberry Honor Book, it is a coming of age story, which focuses on the beauty of imagination during childhood and the realization of the main character that she is growing up.
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
Michael Morpurgo · 192 pages
When Boowie reads the diary that his grandmother sends him, he learns of her childhood in World War II England when American and British soldiers practiced for D-Day's invasion in the area of her home, and about her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, and the cat's namesake.
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Nyul Choi · 170 pages
A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea. It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to the family, but he cannot break their spirit
Roller Skates
Ruth Sawyer · 186 pages
Liberated for a year from her parents' restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.
The Dragonfly Pool
Eva Ibbotson · 398 pages