18 books like Summer of '69

What to read after Summer of '69 — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Book of the Banshee Anne Fine · 1991 · ★ 3.5 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Will Flowers doesn't understand what could have happened. His sister, Estelle, used to be really cool. She was quiet, responsible, and most times you'd never even know she was around(which was the cool part). But lately, Estelle has been acting totally weird - to everyone. All she does is get mad and yell. She yells at Mom. She yells at Dad. She even yells at little Muffy. But mostly she yells at… Shares Siblings, Family life, Brothers and sisters, Families

Sami and the time of the troubles Florence Parry Heide · 1992 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate 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, History

An Eye for an Eye Peter Roop · 2000 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In 1775 fourteen-year-old Samantha, who should be wearing dresses, knows that in britches she can out-hunt her twin and out-sail her older brother near their James River home, but can she use those skills against the British when the American Revolution begins? Shares Siblings, Family life, Brothers and sisters, History

Five Little Peppers Abroad Margaret Sidney · 1902 · ★ 3.9 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Moderate This book is the next in the series of the Five Little Peppers, by Margaret Sidney, after Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and Five Little Peppers Midway. It continues the series where Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and Phronsie get to travel abroad in Europe. Shares Siblings, Family life, Brothers and sisters, Families

The Railway Children Edith Nesbit · 1900 · ★ 4.0 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Moderate When Father mysteriously goes away, the children and their mother leave their happy life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. 'The Three Chimneys' lies beside a railway track - a constant source of enjoyment to all three. They make friends with the Station Master and Perks the Porter, as well as the jovial 'Old Gentleman' who waves to them everyday from the train. But the… Shares Family life, Brothers and sisters, Families, History

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares History

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares History

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

The Magic Half Annie Barrows · 2008 · ★ 4.6 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Miri is the only single child in the middle of a family with two sets of twins--older brothers and younger sisters. When the family moves to an old farmhouse Miri accidentally travels back in time to 1935 only to discover Molly, a girl in need of a real family to call her own. A very satisfying classic-in-the-making, with spine-tingling moments, this is a delightful family-friendly middle grade… Shares Siblings, Brothers and sisters

The Replacement Brenna Yovanoff · 2010 · ★ 3.6 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement—left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, he's slowly dying in the human world. Mackie would give anything to live a normal life, play his bass, and find out more… Shares Siblings, Family life, Brothers and sisters, Families

Robots go wild! James Patterson · 2015 · ★ 4.3 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"-- Shares Family life, Brothers and sisters, Families

Fighting for the Right Oliver Optic · 1892 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares Siblings, History with this book.

Rolie Polie Olie William Joyce · 1999 · 47p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Rolie Polie Olie, a round robot living on a planet where everything is round, enjoys a busy day with his family and then is too wired to go to bed at night. Shares Siblings, Brothers and sisters

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813 · ★ 4.4 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Challenging The first edition of the novel (1813). Introductory materials and revised and expanded footnotes by Donald Gray and Mary A. Favret. Biographical portraits of Austen by family members and— new to this edition— by Jon Spence (from Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (from The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things). Fourteen critical essays—eleven of them new to this edition. "Writers… Shares Family life, Brothers and sisters, Families, History

Novels (Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility) Jane Austen · 1949 · ★ 4.2 · 632p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Shares Family life, Brothers and sisters, Families, History with this book. Shares Family life, Brothers and sisters, Families, History

The Mystery of the Singing Ghost Gertrude Chandler Warner · 1992 · ★ 4.0 · 119p · ≈ 3h · Moderate While helping fix up the old house their cousins have bought, the Aldens hear stories about its being haunted and find evidence suggesting that there may be a ghost there. Shares Siblings, Brothers and sisters, Families

El Príncipe de la Niebla Carlos Ruiz Zafón · 1993 · ★ 4.5 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died. Shares Family life, Brothers and sisters, Families, History

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813 · ★ 4.3 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. Mr. Bennet, owner of the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five daughters,… Shares Family life, Brothers and sisters, Families, History

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