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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan · 64 pages
This Newbery Medal winning book and children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. The 30th Anniversary edition includes author Patricia MacLachlan s Newbery speech, discussion guide a
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
Joan W. Blos · 144 pages
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
Revolution
Deborah Wiles · 519 pages
It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description. It is 1964, and Sunny's town is being invaded, or at least that is what the adults a
The Ghost at Dawn's House
Ann M. Martin · 148 pages
Dawn has always thought there was a secret passage hidden in her house. But she never thought there was a ghost...until now. All kinds of creepy things go on whenever Dawn's at home. There are even spooky noises behind her bedroom wall! Dawn is sure there's a ghost in her house. And so are the other BSC members. But they're so busy with their baby-sitting jobs that they hardly have time for a gho
The Crossroads
Chris Grabenstein · 336 pages
ZACK, HIS DAD, and new stepmother have just moved back to his father's hometown, not knowing that their new house has a dark history. Fifty years ago, a crazed killer caused an accident at the nearby crossroads that took 40 innocent lives. He died when his car hit a tree in a fiery crash, and his malevolent spirit has inhabited the tree ever since. During a huge storm, lightning hits the tree, rel
White Sands, Red Menace
Ellen Klages · 337 pages
It is 1946, and Dewey Kerrigan is now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dewey and her "sister," Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to high school in an isolated desert town. Then, Dewey's long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci, reappears in their lives.
Girls Acting Catty
Leslie Margolis · 179 pages
Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.
Kristy and the Copycat
Ann M. Martin, Nola Thacker · 136 pages
Karen is very proud of her big stepsister Kristy. So she's been copying everything Kristy does, to be just like her. Then Kristy does something terrible. What would Karen think of her big sister if she knew the truth?
Love Comes Softly
Janette Oke · 192 pages
WHEN MARTY CLARIDGE'S HUSBAND IS KILLED IN A HORSE ACCIDENT, SHE MARRIES CLARK DAVIS, WHO IS IN NEED OF A MOTHER FOR HIS DAUGHTER, MISSIE. AS TIME PROGRESSES MARTY BEGINS TO ATTACH TO LITTLE MISSIE AND CLARK. WHEN THE WAGON TRAIN RETURNS IN THE SPRING WILL SHE GO HOME, OR STAY WITH CLARK AND MISSIE?
So Not Happening
Jenny B. Jones
Forced to move from Manhattan to an Oklahoma farm when her mother remarries, sixteen-year-old Bella relies on her faith while investigating a deadly, secret organization for the school newspaper, as she slowly realizes how shallow and spoiled she has been.
A Girl of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton-Porter · 413 pages
Wherein Elnora goes to high school and learns many lessons not found in her books
The Steps
Rachel Cohn · 137 pages
"If you think it's hard keeping track of all the Steps in my life, try being me.""The Steps" in Annabel's life are her "bazillion" stepbrothers, stepsisters, and half siblings. She is spending her Christmas vacation in Australia with her dad and his new family, and she hopes beyond hope that she can convince him to come back to the United States with her. But as Annabel realizes how much happie
Nightmares!
Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller · 368 pages
Under Their Skin
Margaret Peterson Haddix · 320 pages
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger.
TheLongest Whale Song by Wilson, Jacqueline ( Author ) ON Sep-30-2010
Jacqueline Wilson
Positively
Courtney Sheinmel · 224 pages
Thirteen-year-old Emmy, grieving over her mother who died of AIDS, resentful of having to live with her father and pregnant stepmother, and despairing about her future, finds hope at a summer camp for HIV-positive girls like herself. Includes facts about Elizabeth Glaser, one of the founders of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
Stranded
Jeff Probst, Chris Tebbetts · 176 pages
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
Freaky Fast Frankie Joe
Lutricia Clifton
Eleven-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four stepbrothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
The Nixie's Song
Holly Black · 192 pages
The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up
Northward to the Moon
Polly Horvath · 244 pages
How Mirka Met a Meteorite
Barry Deutsch · 123 pages
Mirka is back, and this time she takes on a misguided meteor who's been set in motion by the troll and turned into Mirka's twin by the witch. Doppelganger Mirka is out to best the real girl. Our heroine will have to beat her own other self in a three-park challenge ... or be banished from Hereville!