10 Top juvenile books like Sweet Creek Holler by Ruth White

Cover of Sweet Creek Holler by Ruth White

Sweet Creek Holler

By: Ruth White

4.05

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

When Ginny, her mama, and her sister, Junie, move from the Clancy Valley Coal camp to Sweet Creek H…

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Cover of Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm

1. Penny from Heaven

By: Jennifer L. Holm

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It’s1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Holm's Penny from Heaven book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • historical fiction
  • young adult
  • juvenile
"My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the be…"

-Jennifer L. Holm, Penny from Heaven

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2. Ghosts

By: Raina Telgemeier

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Ma… read more

Similar categories in Raina Telgemeier's Ghosts book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • young adult
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 Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • historical fiction
  • young adult
  • 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. Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1)

By: Jennifer L. Holm

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it's particularly hard when y… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Holm's Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1) book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • historical fiction
  • young adult
  • juvenile
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5. Tiger Eyes

By: Judy Blume

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Davey has never felt so alone in her life. Her father is dead (shot in a holdup) and now her mother… read more

Similar categories in Judy Blume's Tiger Eyes book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • young adult
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6. The Odds of Getting Even (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #3)

By: Sheila Turnage

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Humor and action abound in this second follow-up to the Newbery honor winner and New York Times bes… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Turnage's The Odds of Getting Even (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #3) book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • young adult
  • juvenile
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7. Turtle in Paradise

By: Jennifer L. Holm

3.50

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Jennifer L. Holm's Turtle in Paradise book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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8. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more

Similar categories in Italo Calvino's Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • historical fiction
Cover of The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #2) by Sheila Turnage

9. The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #2)

By: Sheila Turnage

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated followup to the Newbery honor winner and New York Times bestseller, Three T… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Turnage's The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #2) book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • young adult
  • juvenile

10. Tales from Outer Suburbia

By: Shaun Tan

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbiais by turns hilarious a… read more

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11. The Trouble with May Amelia (May Amelia, #2)

By: Jennifer L. Holm , Adam Gustavson

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover

May Amelia Jackson captured readers' hearts in the Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia. Now, aft… read more

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12. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more

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13. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

Similar categories in Mary Oliver's Felicity book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

14. Don't Look and It Won't Hurt

By: Richard Peck

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Out at the city limits there's this sign that says WELCOME TO CLAYPITTS, PEARL OF THE PRAIRIE, and… read more

Similar categories in Richard Peck's Don't Look and It Won't Hurt book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

15. Raymie Nightingale

By: Kate DiCamillo

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she h… read more

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16. Speciale Violante

By: Bianca Pitzorno

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Le lunghe estate in un paesino di montagna sono, per tre amiche "cittadine, un'occasione per ritrov… read more

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17. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • historical fiction
"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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18. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Ferris book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • juvenile
Cover of The Law of Finders Keepers (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #4) by Sheila Turnage

19. The Law of Finders Keepers (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #4)

By: Sheila Turnage

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Pirates, family, and the truth about Mo's Upstream Mother collide in the conclusion to the Newbery … read more

Similar categories in Sheila Turnage's The Law of Finders Keepers (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #4) book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • young adult
  • juvenile
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20. The Waters

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

3.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the sou… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Jo Campbell's The Waters book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

"Maybe lions keep their promises not to eat your lambs just until they get hungry."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

"This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

"Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

"Titus is going to come milk Delilah after seven." There was a long silence before Herself said grimly, "Don't tell me I raised the kind of girl who waits for a man to milk her cow."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

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21. Betty

By: Tiffany McDaniel

4.41

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl di… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany McDaniel's Betty book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • historical fiction
"The earth is warm enough."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"A girl comes of age against the knife. She must learn to bear its blade. To be cut. To bleed."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"Your life is what makes you rich,' they insisted. 'The people you love and the people who love you back."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"She was born to a woman as telling as a dream and to a man who was a Cherokee, a moonshiner, and a mythmaker."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

Cover of Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo

22. Beverly, Right Here

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.14

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still. This was what Beverly wanted — what … read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Beverly, Right Here book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • historical fiction
  • young adult
  • juvenile
Cover of No Vacancy by Tziporah Cohen

23. No Vacancy

By: Tziporah Cohen

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn’t eleven-year-old Miri… read more

Similar categories in Tziporah Cohen's No Vacancy book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • young adult
  • juvenile
Cover of Sweet Creek Holler by Ruth White

24. Sweet Creek Holler

By: Ruth White

4.05

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

When Ginny, her mama, and her sister, Junie, move from the Clancy Valley Coal camp to Sweet Creek H… read more

Similar categories in Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler book and Ruth White's Sweet Creek Holler

  • historical fiction
  • young adult
  • juvenile

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Cynthia Lord

3.99

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