8 Best family books like Hardscrabble by Sandra Dallas

Cover of Hardscrabble by Sandra Dallas

Hardscrabble

By: Sandra Dallas

4.06

Format: 264 pages, ebook

2019 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book Winner 2019 Spur Award - Western Writer's of Amer…

If you liked the family plot in Hardscrabble by Sandra Dallas , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4) by Madeleine L'Engle

1. A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

By: Madeleine L'Engle

4.17

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

After a tumultuous year in New York City, the Austins are spending the summer on the small island w… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine L'Engle's A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"Nothing loved is ever lost or perished."

-Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

"There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness."

-Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

"There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle."

-Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light."

-Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

Cover of Widow's Tears (China Bayles, #21) by Susan Wittig Albert

2. Widow's Tears (China Bayles, #21)

By: Susan Wittig Albert

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After losing her husband, five children, housekeeper, and beautiful home in the Galveston Hurricane… read more

Similar categories in Susan Wittig Albert's Widow's Tears (China Bayles, #21) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

3. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the pra… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • juvenile
"Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"When gloomy clouds across the sky Cast shadows o'er the land, Bright rays of hope illumine my path, For Jesus holds my hand."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"All day the storm lasted. The windows were white and the wind never stopped howling and screaming. It was pleasant in the warm house. Laura and Mary did their lessons, then Pa played the fiddle while…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

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4. A Different Blue

By: Amy Harmon

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Blue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. Aband… read more

Similar categories in Amy Harmon's A Different Blue book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • fiction
  • young adult
"Why are you so angry?"

-Amy Harmon, A Different Blue

"I love the way you smile at me... knocks me on my arse."

-Amy Harmon, A Different Blue

"I don't have terrible taste in women. I'm mad about you, aren't I?"

-Amy Harmon, A Different Blue

"You may not be a work of art, but you are definitely a piece of work."

-Amy Harmon, A Different Blue

Cover of These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

5. These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim s… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

By: Andrew Peterson , Justin Gerard

4.69

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Book Three of The Wingfeather Saga Janner Wingfeather's father was the High King of Anniera. But h… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Peterson's The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"Sorry, lass. Ye have to seize the teachable moments, you know. Carry on."

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

"Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way."

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

"He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and …"

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

"I'll put her in charge of the puppies. I've twelve this week that need tending. How does that suit you?" Leeli's mouth hung open. She tried to say something but instead crumpled to the floor. She had…"

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

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7. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another mem… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • family
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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8. Rainwater

By: Sandra Brown , Victor Slezak

4.09

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A romantic historical novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red about an in… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Brown's Rainwater book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Sound of Rain

By: Sarah Loudin Thomas

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the Dark of the Mine, In the Face of Rising Water, In the Shadows of the Hills, Faith Will See T… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Loudin Thomas's The Sound of Rain book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Poet's Dog

By: Patricia MacLachlan

4.26

Format: None pages, ebook

From Newbery Medal winner Patricia MacLachlan comes a poignant story about two children, a poet, an… read more

Similar categories in Patricia MacLachlan's The Poet's Dog book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

11. The Warden and the Wolf King (The Wingfeather Saga #4)

By: None , Andrew Peterson

3.90

Format: 205 pages,

All winter long, people in the Green Hollows have prepared for a final battle with Gnag the Nameles… read more

Similar categories in None's The Warden and the Wolf King (The Wingfeather Saga #4) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult

12. The Education of Dixie Dupree

By: Donna Everhart

3.46

Format: None pages, ebook

In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for he… read more

Similar categories in Donna Everhart's The Education of Dixie Dupree book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

13. The Moon by Night (Austin Family, #2)

By: Madeleine L'Engle

3.50

Format: 519 pages, Paperback

Vicky Austin is filled with uncertainties about everything. Her parents call it Vicky's "difficult … read more

Similar categories in Madeleine L'Engle's The Moon by Night (Austin Family, #2) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

14. Meet the Austins

By: Madeleine L'Engle

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

A revised edition, including one section of the manuscript that was omitted in the original publica… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine L'Engle's Meet the Austins book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

15. Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing--his very own… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Farmer Boy (Little House, #3) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

16. Up a Road Slowly

By: Irene Hunt

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

The Newbery Award-winning novel From the author of Across Five Aprilsand No Promises in the Windco… read more

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17. When the Jessamine Grows

By: Donna Everhart

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more

Similar categories in Donna Everhart's When the Jessamine Grows book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue (The Vanderbeekers, #3) by Karina Yan Glaser

18. The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue (The Vanderbeekers, #3)

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.45

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Harlem’s favorite family returns in the third installment in the Vanderbeerkers series! In To the R… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue (The Vanderbeekers, #3) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"The universe is so big, much bigger than you and me and bigger than any of our mistakes. There are always opportunities to forgive and be forgiven."

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue (The Vanderbeekers, #3)

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19. Lines of Courage

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.30

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futu… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Lines of Courage book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Captive Kingdom (Ascendance, #4) by Jennifer A. Nielsen

20. The Captive Kingdom (Ascendance, #4)

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.17

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer A. Nielsen returns to the world of The False Prince in this fourth book of the Ascendance … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's The Captive Kingdom (Ascendance, #4) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"That was a long gulp," he said. "I just told you a gulp." I frowned at him. "Maybe you should have explained the difference between a long gulp and a regular gulp." "If I had intended for anything bu…"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Captive Kingdom (Ascendance, #4)

Cover of To Slip the Bonds of Earth (Katharine Wright, #1) by Amanda Flower

21. To Slip the Bonds of Earth (Katharine Wright, #1)

By: Amanda Flower

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, K… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Flower's To Slip the Bonds of Earth (Katharine Wright, #1) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Beauty Reborn by Elizabeth Lowham

22. Beauty Reborn

By: Elizabeth Lowham

3.80

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

“Suspense-building flashbacks. Soul-searching, cautionary realism. Beauty herself is an intriguing,… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Lowham's Beauty Reborn book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • fiction
  • young adult
"For all the thorns I'd faced, at last I'd found the roses."

-Elizabeth Lowham, Beauty Reborn

"It's true what the folktale says: I did choose to live with the beast. But not for the reason you think. Not to save my father. Not even to save myself. In truth, I was hoping I'd be eaten."

-Elizabeth Lowham, Beauty Reborn

"Perhaps I could climb aboard a ship and sail to the farthest corner of the world, where there was only undiscovered wilderness, where I could breathe deep the wet wilds and be so lost in fresh green …"

-Elizabeth Lowham, Beauty Reborn

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23. Light Changes Everything

By: Nancy E. Turner

4.11

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

“I adored stepping back into to the world of the Prines through tough-as-rawhide Mary Pearl. Light … read more

Similar categories in Nancy E. Turner's Light Changes Everything book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2) by Karina Yan Glaser

24. The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Return to Harlem's "wildly entertaining" family in this funny, heartwarming sequel. When catastroph… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"Keep calm and garden on! -Oliver"

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

"Music makes a garden bloom. -Isa"

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

"Being in a garden makes we want to dance! -Laney"

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

"A garden should always have a party in it. -Jessie"

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

Cover of Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

25. Girl in the Blue Coat

By: Monica Hesse

4.04

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods t… read more

Similar categories in Monica Hesse's Girl in the Blue Coat book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes hope can be poisonous."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"Isn't love the opposite of rational?"

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"But when it comes down to it, we all die alone."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"Girls in love will do desperate and creative things."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

Cover of Proving Her Claim (On the Dakota Frontier, #1) by CK Van Dam

26. Proving Her Claim (On the Dakota Frontier, #1)

By: CK Van Dam

4.33

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

The Civil War created countless spinsters and widows. Anna Olson was one of them. With no prospe… read more

Similar categories in CK Van Dam's Proving Her Claim (On the Dakota Frontier, #1) book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • historical fiction
Cover of Someplace to Call Home by Morgan Douglas

27. Someplace to Call Home

By: Morgan Douglas

4.08

Format: 4 pages, Kindle Edition

2021-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Master List 2020 Women Writing the West Willa Award (tied for 1st place)… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Douglas's Someplace to Call Home book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • juvenile
Cover of More Than Grit by Gretchen A. Carlson

28. More Than Grit

By: Gretchen A. Carlson

4.57

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

When do secrets become lies? When is grit not enough? A story of broken lives and deep friendships,… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen A. Carlson's More Than Grit book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

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29. Molly's Memoir

By: Deanna Edens

4.17

Format: 119 pages, ebook

“Mr. Minion pushed open the door of the cabin and immediately froze when he heard the shrilling sou… read more

Similar categories in Deanna Edens's Molly's Memoir book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Hardscrabble by Sandra Dallas

30. Hardscrabble

By: Sandra Dallas

4.06

Format: 264 pages, ebook

2019 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book Winner 2019 Spur Award - Western Writer's of Amer… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble book and Sandra Dallas's Hardscrabble

  • childrens
  • westerns
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • young adult historical fiction
  • juvenile

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3.99

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4.22

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