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Little Women 4 reviews
Louisa May Alcott
Ann Arbor Media, 2006
From little women to good wives
+ A nice step back
+ A Classic literary masterpiece
+ Nice edition of my all-time favorite book
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Island of the Blue Dolphins 609 reviews
Scott O'Dell
Yearling, 1987
Classic adventure
+ Island of the Blue Dolphins
+ A True Survivor
+ Dolphin book for school
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A Coal Miner's Bride: the Diary of Anetka Kaminska86 reviews
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Scholastic Inc., 2000
Great Story
+ I loved it!
+ very good
+ I adore this book!
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 461 reviews
Mildred D. Taylor
Puffin, 1991
my son liked this book
+ Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
+ Black after the civil war
+ Excellent source to learn African American history in the 1930s
+ My Favorite Book
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The Devil's Arithmetic270 reviews
Jane Yolen
Puffin, 1990
Not Just another Holocaust Story
+ Excellent book.
+ Great book goes well with the DVD movie,
+ Excellent book!!!!
+ If It's Not Required Reading, It Should Be ...
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Catherine, Called Birdy (rpkg) (Trophy Newbery)285 reviews
Karen Cushman
HarperTrophy, 1995
Outstanding Read for Eng. Lit., Historical Study, and High Interest
+ Great book
+ Catherine Called Birdy
+ A. Stewart's Book Review
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (Tale of ...375 reviews
Kate Dicamillo
Candlewick, 2003
Love, Forgiveness, and Bravery
+ book good movie might bad
+ Pure Magic
+ The Tale of Despereux
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Love and Honor: A Novel13 reviews
Randall Wallace
Simon & Schuster, 2004
A Book You Won't Put Down
+ Swashbuckling romp through Imperial Russia
+ Never think of sleigh rides the same way again.
Randall Wallace's Love And Honor, a work of dramatic historical fiction, tells the story of a young Virginian cavalry officer, Kieran Selkirk, who is commissioned by Benjamin Franklin to travel to Russia and persuade the Tsarina, Catherine the Great, not to give aid to England in the upcoming war ...
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Out Of The Dust (Apple Signature Edition)838 reviews
Karen Hesse
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1999
Excellent book for young readers
+ One of my favorites.
+ Out of the Dust
+ Don't let this book collect dust!
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After the Dancing Days31 reviews
Margaret I. Rostkowski
Topeka Bindery, 1999
A beautifully crafted look at the horrors of WWI
+ Great Book
+ I Remember This One...
+ After the Dancing days
+ After The Danceing Days!
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl632 reviews
Anne Frank
Bantam, 1993
Amazing, This is the best book I have ever read...
+ The Face of the Faceless
+ New book condition
+ Anne Frank Diary
+ Anne Frank
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Lyddie (Puffin Books)91 reviews
Katherine Paterson
Puffin, 1992
baanderson bookworm
+ Driven to succeed...
+ Lyddie- a review by Kelsey
+ "we can still hop."
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Girl in a Cage (Stewart Quartet)15 reviews
Jane Yolen, Robert Harris
Philomel, 2002
Middle School Teacher's Review
+ Girl In a Cage
+ Elaina's Book Review
+ Thrilled To Be A Princess
+ A rollercoaster ride of a book.
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Marie, Dancing7 reviews
Carolyn Meyer
Gulliver Books, 2005
...makes the reader feel as if they are flying through the air, alongside Marie, performing flawless cabrioles!
+ Marie et Monsieur Degas
+ Courtesy of Teens Read Too
+ Wonderful and poignant...
+ La Petite Danseuse
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Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France, 1553 (The Royal Diaries)40 reviews
Kathryn Lasky
Scholastic Inc., 2002
Mary, Queen of Scots
+ Mae Like this book!
+ Queen of Scotland, lived in France
+ some history about this book . . .
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Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Puffin Story Books)157 reviews
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Puffin, 1985
Who doesn't love this novel.
+ Good read
+ A childhood favorite
+ Great Book!!
+ An enjoyable read!
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond383 reviews
Elizabeth George Speare
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958
Classic
+ read it four times when I was younger
+ The first book I ever read twice
+ still enjoyable as an adult
+ Perfect Historical Fiction Book for Adolescent Girls
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Queen's Own Fool38 reviews
Jane Yolen, Robert Harris
Putnam Juvenile, 2001
My first love!
+ Wonderful historical fiction
+ A Wonderful Book!
+ A Fantastic Piece of Historical Fiction!
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Tales From The Homeplace1 review
Harriet Burandt, Shelley Dale
Yearling, 1999
A great family read-aloud!
Our family loved reading this book aloud. Although the heroine is female, our boys, 7 & 8, wouldn't let us stop reading. It's exciting, adventurous, and tender.
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The Midwife's Apprentice138 reviews
Karen Cushman
HarperTrophy, 1996
A journey of self discovery
The Midwife's Apprentice is a historical fiction set in a small English village early in the 14th century. The setting allows the reader to compare the values and ways of the culture in which we live to the ways of the past. The exact time the story takes place isn't really divulged by the ...
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