Books like Brother Dusty-feet by Rosemary Sutcliff

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

A young orphan girl from Canada makes her way to a Prince Edward Island farm and becomes a cherished member of a family there, all while proving she has a talent for making friends and learning languages.

A lonely orphan girl on the Yorkshire moors befriends a disabled cousin and unlocks the secrets of a hidden garden.

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

A powerful story of a Black family's battle for dignity, family, and land in Depression‑era Mississippi, seen through the eyes of eight‑year‑old Cassie Logan.

Anne Shirley: A Teacher's Inspiration in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Merry and her mother risk a voyage aboard the Lusitania to reach England and reunite with Merry’s father, while Alfie watches from the English coast.

Aquila, a young Roman officer, chooses to stay in Britain and joins Roman‑British leader Ambrosius to defend the land against invading Saxon hordes.

A former gladiator and slave, Phaedrus takes the identity of Scotland’s blind king, the Horse Lord, to reclaim his realm from the Picts.

"Sam was absolutely fearless," said Robin Williams. "Most people go to the edge and then stop. Not Sam. He'd see the edge and then just keep going. And I think that scream he was famous for was just the sound he made on his way down." Sam Kinison was Lenny Bruce at warp speed. He was not only beyond hip, he was beyond gonzo. He was a white Richard Pryor; a preacher-turned-comedian; a primal screamer who shrieked for our sins. He was known as the "rock and roll comic" - a burly, volatile high-wire act, calculated to offend, demolishing taboos on national television with brute force. When he lost his life in April 1992 at the age of thirty-eight, behind the wheel of a sports car east of Los Angeles, many of his fans didn't know about his past. The most successful comic of the 1980s was the son of a poor Illinois preacher - an unhappy child from a torn, dysfunctional family, plagued by low self-esteem and fated for disappointment. This first full account of Kinison's whiplashing life is written by the person who lived closest to its subject - Sam's brother, Bill Kinison, a traveling preacher for seventeen years who gave up his vocation to manage Sam's comedy career. Bill covers Sam's checkered early years (Sam, too, spent years as a fire-and-brimstone preacher); his sudden ascent to fame in 1985 and flamboyant life in show business; his personal struggles with liquor, drugs and sexual excess; and the feelings of a brother doomed to take care of a brother born to raise hell. Along the road to stardom the brothers Kinison associated with Hollywood's A list, and Kinison reveals all the compromising positions and rancorous run-ins. Among the supporting cast: Arsenio Hall, Andrew Dice Clay, Elton John, Howard Stern, Lorne Michaels, Mike Ovitz, Robin Williams, David Letterman, Penny Marshall, Eddie Murphy, and a legion of rockstars, groupies, dealers, and leeches. Kinison's outrageous comic sense and his flash-burning career symbolized the out-of-control 1980s; his fame rested on his wildness, his unaccountability. His short, haywire, supremely self-indulgent, and ultimately self-destructive life makes John Belushi's sound tempered and innocent.

A lone stranger confronts a corrupt town that wronged his sister, sparking a relentless clash of justice and vengeance amid a mythic Western landscape.

A young Roman army medical officer arrives in Britain during the decline of Roman control, where he befriends a relative and together they find themselves embroiled in intrigue, exile, and covert actions with the elusive Lost Ninth Legion.

Set in isolated Appalachian woods, Brother follows nineteen‑year‑old Michael Morrow who longs for a life beyond his remote family’s secrets. When he meets Alice, a record‑shop worker from nearby Dahlia, the quiet strains of a monstrous past begin to surface.

Fifteen‑year‑old Beric, born a Roman and raised among the Celts, is cast out and sold into galley slavery, enduring a life‑long punishment as his world collapses around him.

Set in 600 AD northern Britain, *The Shining Company* follows Prosper as he joins a 300‑strong band of rival royal sons fighting the Saxons in the historic Battle of Catterick.

A sixteen‑year‑old Viking outlaw named Bjarni is cast out from the Norse settlement in the Angles' Land and spends five years sailing along Scotland’s west coast, witnessing the feuding clan chiefs of an age before 1066.

A story of a Jewish family's harrowing experiences during World War II and their ultimate journey to rebuild their lives and family after the war’s end.