11 best-selling fiction books like Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

Cover of Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

Homeless Bird

By: Gloria Whelan

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Like many girls her age in the India of her time period, thirteen-year-old-Koly is getting married.…

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1. The King's Fifth

By: Scott O'Dell

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A 1967 Newbery Honor Book  While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the oblig… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Arrow Over the Door

By: Joseph Bruchac , James Watling

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

To fourteen-year-old Samuel Russell, called "coward" for his peace-loving Quaker beliefs, the summe… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

3. Homeless Bird

By: Gloria Whelan

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Like many girls her age in the India of her time period, thirteen-year-old-Koly is getting married.… read more

Similar categories in Gloria Whelan's Homeless Bird book and Gloria Whelan's Homeless Bird

  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

By: Esther Hautzig

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

It is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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5. Breaking Stalin's Nose

By: Eugene Yelchin

3.84

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet You… read more

Similar categories in Eugene Yelchin's Breaking Stalin's Nose book and Gloria Whelan's Homeless Bird

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. The Sherwood Ring

By: Elizabeth Marie Pope

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral e… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From The Tower Of London by Elvira Woodruff

7. The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From The Tower Of London

By: Elvira Woodruff

3.95

Format: None pages,

Forrest lives at the Tower of London prison, where his father tends the Tower ravens and guards inm… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie (Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, #1) by Jordan Sonnenblick

8. Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie (Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, #1)

By: Jordan Sonnenblick

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

From first-time novelist Jordan Sonnenblick, a brave and beautiful story that will make readers lau… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult

9. A Murder for Her Majesty

By: Beth Hilgartner

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Horrified at having witnessed her father's murder and fearing that the killers are agents of Queen … read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Good Master

By: Kate Seredy

4.14

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his fath… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers by Gary Paulsen

11. Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers

By: Gary Paulsen

3.67

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers.… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

12. Shadow Spinner

By: Susan Fletcher

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

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13. Snow Treasure

By: Marie McSwigan , None

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In the bleak winter of 1940, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter Lundstrom's tiny Norwegian village a… read more

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14. Betsy and the Emperor

By: Staton Rabin

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Think, my dear -- just think what it will be like, to be known as the girl who freed the great Nap… read more

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15. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Samurai Detective, #1)

By: Dorothy Hoobler , Thomas Hoobler

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a… read more

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16. The Broken Blade (Pierre La Page #1)

By: William Durbin

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he'd be leaving Montreal to paddle 2,400 miles. … read more

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17. Year of Impossible Goodbyes

By: Sook Nyul Choi

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japa… read more

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18. Nory Ryan's Song (Nory Ryan, #1)

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a … read more

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19. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel

By: Deborah Hopkinson

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Hardcover

"A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventu… read more

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20. The Singing Tree

By: Kate Seredy

3.50

Format: 306 pages,

Life on the Hungarian plains us changing quickly for Jancsi and his cousin Kate. Father has given J… read more

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21. Banner in the Sky

By: James Ramsey Ullman

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

The Citadel It stands unconquered, the last great summit of the Alps. Only one man has ever dared t… read more

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11 must-read fiction books like Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

Transform Your Habits

The King's Fifth

Scott O'Dell

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Arrow Over the Door

Joseph Bruchac , James Watling

3.92

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Homeless Bird

Gloria Whelan

3.75

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

Esther Hautzig

4.18

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Transform Your Habits

I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

3.76

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The Great and Terrible Quest

Margaret Lovett

3.97

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The King's Fifth

Scott O'Dell

3.66

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The Arrow Over the Door

Joseph Bruchac , James Watling

3.92

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