10 Top historical books like The Good Master by Kate Seredy

Cover of The Good Master by Kate Seredy

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…

If you liked the historical plot in The Good Master by Kate Seredy , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining, Robert Lawson, Elizabeth Janet Gray

1. Adam of the Road

By: Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

"A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's a good… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gray Vining's Adam of the Road book and Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright, Joe Krush, Beth Krush

2. Gone-Away Lake

By: Elizabeth Enright , Joe Krush , Beth Krush

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Summer has a magic all its own. When Portia sets out for a visit with her cousin Julian, she exp… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Enright's Gone-Away Lake book and Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"Things are always happening to my socks. One's always going off someplace. I don't know why."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

"Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

"Yes, except that nothing sleeps inside but furniture, and that's probably gone to pieces by now. Time gets into anything; yes, indeed it does; and weather helps it."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

"Mr. Payton was at work on his pipe again, lighting and coaxing it. "They need constant attention, pipes, like babies and guinea hens," he said, and sucked in the smoke."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

Cover of The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1) by Deborah Ellis

3. The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1)

By: Deborah Ellis

4.00

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors. Barred from … read more

Similar categories in Deborah Ellis's The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1) book and Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We have to remember this,"

-Deborah Ellis, The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1)

"They were going to turn her into a boy."

-Deborah Ellis, The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1)

"These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by."

-Deborah Ellis, The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1)

Cover of Chu Ju's House by Gloria Whelan

4. Chu Ju's House

By: Gloria Whelan

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

One girl too many . . . When a girl is born to Chu Ju's family, it is quickly determined that the b… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. 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 Kate Seredy's The Good Master

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

6. 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

Similar categories in Esther Hautzig's The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia book and Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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7. 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 Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
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8. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Sherwood Ring book and Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction

9. The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR (The Story of the World #4)

By: Susan Wise Bauer

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Where was the Crystal Palace? Who was the Sick Man of Europe? And how did cow fat start a revolutio… read more

Similar categories in Susan Wise Bauer's The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR (The Story of the World #4) book and Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • historical
  • childrens
  • school

10. Classic Poetry: An Illustrated Collection

By: Michael Rosen , Paul Howard

3.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An ideal gift book for children and adults, this beautiful keepsake volume is the essential collect… read more

Similar categories in Michael Rosen's Classic Poetry: An Illustrated Collection book and Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • classics
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of Miracles on Maple Hill by Beth Krush, Virginia Sorensen

11. Miracles on Maple Hill

By: Beth Krush , Virginia Sorensen

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hil… read more

Similar categories in Beth Krush's Miracles on Maple Hill book and Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile

12. Angel on the Square (Angel on the Square, #1)

By: Gloria Whelan

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the fall of 1914, safe behind palace walls, Katya Ivanova sees St. Petersburg as a magical place… read more

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Cover of The Good Master by Kate Seredy

13. 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

Similar categories in Kate Seredy's The Good Master book and Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • hungary
  • juvenile

14. 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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15. Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears

By: Kristina Rodanas , Alex W. Bealer

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Paperback

From 1837 to 1838, thousands of Cherokee Indians were marched from their homelands in Georgia to ex… read more

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16. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

By: Jean Lee Latham

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to … read more

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17. Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

By: Carol Ryrie Brink

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to b… read more

Similar categories in Carol Ryrie Brink's Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1) book and Kate Seredy's The Good Master

  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"Life is just a lot of everyday adventures."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

"But every redhead's temper has its limitations."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes on at the end of an outdoor day."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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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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Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

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Elizabeth Enright , Joe Krush , Beth Krush

4.14

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The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1)

Deborah Ellis

4.00

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Chu Ju's House

Gloria Whelan

3.93

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Secret of the Andes (Puffin Newberry Library)

Ann Nolan Clark

3.54

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Roger Lancelyn Green , Arthur Hall

4.07

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I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

3.76

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3.77

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