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Which books should I read next?
Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. A girl is sent to rural Vermont and experiences country life.
32 (24.8%)
Building Blocks, by Cynthia Voigt. A boy time-travels and meets his father as a boy.
22 (17.1%)
Juniper, by Monica Furlong. A princess studies with her wise-woman aunt.
50 (38.8%)
Mossflower, by Brian Jacques. Martin the Warrior vs en evil cat queen.
24 (18.6%)
Castaways in Lilliput, by Henry Winterfield. Three shipwrecked kids land in Lilliput.
17 (13.2%)
Midsummer, by Katherine Adams. Two New York kids are sent to Sweden & experience Swedish life.
20 (15.5%)
Orphan Island, by Laurel Snyder. Kids live alone on an island.
23 (17.8%)
Mariel of Redwall, by Brian Jacques. Finally a heroine.
25 (19.4%)
The Fairy Caravan, by Beatrix Potter. A miniature animal traveling circus.
19 (14.7%)
A Room Made of Windows, by Eleanor Cameron. Teenage Julia wants to be a writer.
18 (14.0%)
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, by Judith Kerr. Anna and her family are refugees in multiple countries.
30 (23.3%)
Hyddenworld, by William Horwood. Two kids find a civilization of tiny people and magic.
23 (17.8%)
Assignment in Alaska (Kathy Martin), by Josephine James. A stewardess has an Alaska adventure.
9 (7.0%)
Talargain, by Joyce Gard. Northumberland selkie fantasy.
45 (34.9%)
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A prequel to Furlong's earlier novel Wise Child: I am sure both would come flooding back to me if I picked them up, but right now what I remember most are the gorgeous covers by Leo and Diane Dillon and a lot of herbalism. I enjoyed both, but there's something in one of them that really upset me in elementary school, and I can't remember which one or what it is.
Mossflower, by Brian Jacques. Martin the Warrior vs en evil cat queen.
Not my favorite of the original Redwall trilogy because Mattimeo is stark staring bonkers and better for it, but I strongly preferred it to Redwall and liked many of the characters; I remember it having less of a collect-the-coupons plot than many books in this series and some genuine deep-time weirdness. Jacques completely retconned the notion of Redwall being anywhere in our world and I was fine with it.
Mariel of Redwall, by Brian Jacques. Finally a heroine.
I adored this one when it came out. There were pirates and the heroine hit things with a hawser with a knot in it, which honestly seems like a viable weapon if you are a mouse and what you are hitting is mostly seagulls. The plot may be stupid. I believe at one point there is a battle with a lobster. I just liked the pirates and the hitting things.
A Room Made of Windows, by Eleanor Cameron. Teenage Julia wants to be a writer.
I read at least three of the Julia Redfern books all around the same time and have trouble distinguishing them by title; unlike the Mushroom Planet books, I never owned any or really re-read them; I have nonetheless positive feelings at seeing this one mentioned.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, by Judith Kerr. Anna and her family are refugees in multiple countries.
Fictionalized from the author's own experiences as a child, actually good, deserves its place on the curriculum (I was not assigned it, I just picked it up off a shelf in third grade and read it through a class), I don't believe I ever read the sequels, a film was made within the last couple of years and I just don't see how that worked. I discovered as an adult that Kerr wrote it as a kind of riposte to The Sound of Music—one of her children came out of the movie declaring, "Now we know what it was like when Mummy was a little girl," which Kerr could not let stand—and while this makes perfect sense to me, I also find it hilarious.
Talargain, by Joyce Gard. Northumberland selkie fantasy.
Never heard of it and curious.