18 books like A Greyhound of a Girl
The goodbye season
In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.
Shares: Grief, Mothers and daughters, Family life, Families
The Old Country
A grandmother tells her story of being tricked into exchanging her young body with that of a fox and trying to get it back while a war tore apart her home and her country.
Shares: Grandmothers, Grandparents, Children's fiction
The Ghost Belonged to Me
In this story set in 1913, Blossom Culp, Alexander Armsworth, adventurer Miles Armsworth, and Blossom's spiritualist mother set out to exorcise a ghost.
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Wolven
Twelve-year-old Nat, with help from family, friends, and his "pet" Woody, a wolf that turns into a boy, must face werewolves that have been altered as part of a dastardly plan.
A boy who lives with his eccentric grandparents near a strange, apparently cursed wood longs for a dog, but the strange creature finally found by his grandfather hardly fits his image of the perfect pet, and it grows…
Shares: Grandparents, Family life, Families, Children's fiction
Christina's Ghost
Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure.
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The ghost wore gray
Nina ("Nine") Tanleven and her best buddy Chris Gurley are having a hard time. The play that led to them meeting a ghost and unraveling a mystery has ended. Now the rest of the summer looms ahead, looking dull after their great adventure.Luckily, Nine's dad gets a job designing the restoration of an old – and distressingly run down – hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Nine and Chris are more than…
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Vicky angel
Jade is so used to being with and agreeing with Vicky, her larger-than-life best friend, that when a tragic accident occurs, she can hardly believe that Vicky’s gone. But Vicky is a spunky girl who’s not going to let a small thing like death stop her from living life to the fullest. Whether Jade is in school, running, or tentatively trying to make new friends, Vicky makes her presence felt, and…
Shares: Grief, Death, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Sami and the time of the troubles
A ten-year-old Lebanese boy goes to school, helps his mother with chores, plays with his friends, and lives with his family in a basement shelter when bombings occur and fighting begins on his street.
Shares: Family life, Families, Children's fiction
Strega Nona
Strega Nona is a childrens picture book written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola. It concerns Strega Nona and her helper, Big Anthony. The book, which is likely dePaolas best-known work, was published in 1975 and won a Caldecott honor in 1976. It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. Strega Nona has been challenged or banned in some childrens…
Shares: Grandmothers, Grandparents, Children's fiction
Remember me 3
Someone did not like Shari Cooper writing her stories.
Shari Cooper had died once, and then returned to earth as a Wanderer - a soul who had been given permission to take the place of another soul in a mature body. Shari has regained her memory of her previous life. More than that, she has realized her purpose in returning to mortal life. To write stories for young people to help them understand…
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The Headless Ghost
Everyone knows about Hill House. It's the biggest tourist attraction in town. That's because it's haunted. Haunted by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old boy. A boy with no head! Duane and Stephanie love Hill House. It's dark. And creepy. And totally scary. Still, they've never actually seen the ghost. Until the night they decide to go on a search. A search for his head...
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The house of the nightmare, and other eerie tales
CONTENTS:
1 - FROM IMAGINATION
The House Of The Nightmare by Edward Lucas White
The Hauntings At Thorhallstead by Allen French
His Own Number by William Croft Dickinson
Gabriel-Ernest by Saki
Hand In Glove by Elizabeth Bowen
Mr. Fox (traditional english tale) by Anonymous
Curfew by L.M. Boston
John Bartine's Watch by Ambrose Bierce
The Monkey's Paw by W.W.Jacobs
My Grandfather, Hendry Watty by…
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Kit's Wilderness
The Printz Award--winning classic gets a new look.The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit's recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family has both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him in playing a game called Death. As Kit's grandfather tells him stories of the mine's past and the history of the…
Shares: Grandparents, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Gus was a friendly ghost
A ghost and a mouse have a summer house all to themselves while the folks are away for the winter.
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Harry and the Robots
When Sammy's grandmother goes into the hospital with a bad cough, he makes some special robots to look after her.
Shares: Grandmothers, Grandparents, Children's fiction
Witch Child
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
Shares: Grandparents, Voyages and travels, Children's fiction
Schooled
Thirteen year old Anderson has never watched t.v., or never had pizza or even heard of a wedgie. The only thing he has ever done is been home schooled by his hippie grand mother, Rain. When she broke her hip after she fell out of a tree picking
plums, he is forced to stay in a foster home. Will this be his only chance to try to
stop from going to a real school? Or will his bananas go rotton?
Shares: Grandmothers, Grandparents, Children's fiction
The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed
Nina Tanleven, six grader, and her best friend, Chris discover the tower room with its big brass bed and grieving little girl ghost.
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction