Biblio, Part 9 of 10

["Cheryl W. Stevens" <cheryls@NECA.COM>]

BOOKS SIMILAR TO  WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS.

Shiloh by Naylor (5 recommendations)
      Won the Newbery Award.
      "It's powerful, but a tear jerker." - according to one librarian
Old Yeller by Gibson (4 recommendations)
Sounder by Armstrong (3 recommendations)
      "Best connector to Red Fern we found" - according to one librarian
Big Red by Kjelgaard ( 3 recommendations)
Summer of the Monkeys by Rawls (2 recommendations)
      - considered by on librarian to be better than Red Fern
A Dog Called Kitty (2 recommendations)
Stone Fox by Gardiner (2 recommendations)
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Peck (2 recommendations)
Sign of the Beaver by Speare (1 recommendation)
The One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (1 recommendation)
The Yearling by Rawlings (1 recommendation)
      - recommended by one librarian as a good read aloud
      - another said that it's too depressing.
Good Old Boy by Willie Morris (1 recommendation)
       - I loved this!  It's nonfiction.  About life growing up in
Mississippi.  A dog
          plays an important role.
Prairie Song by Pam Conrad (1 recommendation)
       - About life on the prairie.  Very sad and very good.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by O'Brien(1 recommendation)
Bearstone by Hobbs (1 recommendation)
Beauty by Bill Wallace ( 1 recommendation)
Red Dog by Bill Wallace (1 recommendation)
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Eckert (1 recommendation)
       - Very good - I read this awhile ago.
A Blue-Eyed Daisy by Rylant (1 recommendation)
Four Miles to Pinecone by Hassler ( 1 recommendation)
      - Another book I read awhile ago - also very good!
Rascal by Sterling North (1 recommendation)
Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell (1 recommendation)
Snow Goose by Paul Gallico (1 recommendation)
Rescue Josh Mcquire by Mikealsen (sp?)
Missing 'gator of Gumbo Limbo by George (1 recommendation)
Great Dane Thor (1 recommendation)
The Trouble with Tuck (1 recommendation)


10 YEAR OLD GIRL-SELF ESTEEM

>How about Give us a great big smile, Rosy Cole?

>Amazing Grace is a wonderful book for any age.

>The Lilith Summer by Hadley Irwin might be just the type of book you are
>looking for.

>Indirectly, perhaps, but The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson,
>Pinballs by Betsy Byars both show girls who overcame many emotional
>blows.

>Shoeshine Girl by Clyde Robert Bulla has to do with self-insight in a
>young girl.  The Bully of Barkham Street by Mary Stolz is longer but also
>very good about kids figuring out how the world works and learning to
>make the best of it.  Both are about kids who are MUCH worse than any
>regular problem-having kid.

Patricia Wrede's series on Dealing with Dragons would also be good.

Cheryl W. Stevens
Library Media Specialist
Willimantic, Connecticut
cheryls@neca.com
The Librarian's File Cabinet
http://www.neca.com/~cheryls

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