Books like Christy by Maud Johnson

In the sixth entry of the Harry Potter saga, Dumbledore’s arrival at Privet Drive uncovers a threat to Hogwarts and forces Harry, aided by friends, to uncover Voldemort’s darkest secrets.

Christy is a nineteen-year-old teacher from North Carolina who moves to a poverty-stricken mountain community in Tennessee, struggling to adapt and find acceptance while her faith is tested by conflicting views on child rearing.

Clara Gardner discovers she is destined to protect her town from supernatural threats—while navigating first love, family secrets, and an ominous fallen angel.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler's son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough's subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all but unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough's signature narrative energy.

Stan Berenstain’s Berenstain Bears adventure takes the family into the world of school, sharing the excitement and nerves of the first day in a friendly, relatable setting.

Battered by teasing, the Berenstain Bears find out the hard way that no one is immune to bullying at school, much to the dismay of their siblings, who are not as adept at dealing with the situation.

A young girl's journey of faith and adventure unfolds in a rural mountain school setting, touching on themes of family, responsibility, and Christian life.

Humphrey the hamster gets into trouble in the classroom and school setting.

When a new substitute teacher comes to Bear Country School, the cubs learn that appearances can be deceiving.

A young teenage boy discovers his connection to an ancient civilization and becomes part of a dangerous quest to save the world from environmental destruction and alien invasion, while facing his own troubled past in a harsh and dangerous camp environment.

At twelve, Derek Fallon expects his life to become cool, but a string of humorous mishaps and social blunders quickly shatters his confidence, exploring the ups and downs of middle school life.

In the Nevada frontier town of Primrose Creek, an English schoolgirl, Christy McQuarry, must navigate love, responsibility, and survival while seeking a secure future amid harsh pioneer life.

Bears vs. Trees: A School Field Trip Adventure

The Dollanganger Family Series: A Thriller with Family Secrets and Unpredictable Villains

A sweeping historical novel that follows the life and friendship of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave turned skilled dressmaker, as she works for and confides with First Lady Mary Lincoln during the Civil War era.