A Deadly Game of Magic
10 best books like A Deadly Game of Magic (Joan Lowery Nixon): The Face on the Milk Carton, Bunnicula, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, They Never Came Home, Heart of a Samurai, Summer of Fear, What Do You Do with an Idea?, The Ghost Next Door, The Survivor, Are You in the House Alone?
The Face on the Milk Carton
The face on the milk carton looks like an ordinary little girl: hair in tight pigtails, a dress with a narrow white collar, a three-year-old who was kidnapped more than twelve years ago from a shopping mall in New Jersey.
As fifteen-year-old Janie Johnson stares at the milk carton, she feels...
| Author | James Howe |
| ISBN | 1416928170 |
(This review is from 2004.)
Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d talk about something frightening: Bunnies. Vampire bunnies. Ninja vampire bunnies. Okay, so, maybe not that ninja part. But definitely vampire bunnies—one in particular.
So, my roommate (Mr. “I’m not...
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
| Author | Edogawa Rampo |
| ISBN | 0804803196 |
Edogowa Rampo--just say his pen name quickly three times to discover how much he loved Edgar Allen Poe--is considered the first and foremost writer of Japanese mystery fiction. He is also much more.
His stories, structured as popular "entertainments," are designed to convey all the...
| Author | Lois Duncan |
| ISBN | 0440207800 |
Just because Lois Duncan’s They Never Came Home was written in the late 1960s (my Avon paper book edition published in 1969) doesn’t mean it should be as incredibly stupid and sexist as it is. This book is awful. I picked up this book somewhere, sometime during my travels and it’s sat on my book shelves...
| Author | Margi Preus |
| ISBN | 0810989816 |
A 2011 Newbery Honor BookIn 1841, a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a small, unknown island, where they are rescued by a passing American ship. Japan’s borders remain closed to all Western nations, so the crew sets off to America, learning English on the way.Manjiro, a fourteen-year-old...
Summer of fear by Lois Duncan is a 1977 publication.
This story is geared towards a young adult audience, but it still has some excellent chills and thrills even now, reading it as an adult.
For fans of trivia or pop culture, there was a made for television movie based on this book starring...
What Do You Do with an Idea?
| Author | Kobi Yamada |
| ISBN | 1938298071 |
This is the story of one brilliant idea and the child who helps to bring it into the world. As the child's confidence grows, so does the idea itself. And then, one day, something amazing happens. This is a story for anyone, at any age, who's ever had an idea that seemed a little too big, too odd, too difficult....
| Author | Wylly Folk St. John |
| ISBN | 0671442902 |
Sherry Alston had never been told about her dead half-sister Miranda. So when Sherry came to visit her Aunt Judith, no one could explain the odd things that started to happen. Who was the elusive friend Sherry said she saw in the garden? Was she an imaginary playmate - or could she be the ghost of Miranda...
| Author | James Herbert |
| ISBN | 0451073932 |
it begins so well. a contemplative old man walking along the water, witnessing a terrible catastrophe in the air. a blasted field full of wreckage, bodies, smoke, flame, and ash. a co-pilot that has mysteriously survived, completely intact except for any memories of the flight. and quaint Eton parish,...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0141306939 |
An updated look for the classic YA thriller from genre heavyweight Richard Peck
Sixteen-year-old Gail is living the upper-class suburban life when she begins receiving terrifying phone calls and notes in her locker. And the calls keep coming. When she's attacked by the town's golden boy...
| Author | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 0689807228 |
"Didn't the gas ovens finish you all off?" is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go. Members of the underground...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0385734484 |
Choices do matter and forgiveness is possible.
Jack Fountain knows that what’s happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write. But it happened—to Jack; his parents; his sisters, Smithy and Madison. And to his baby brother, Tris. What made it worse...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0590438069 |
Christina is 13 years old. She’s an island child, excited to leave for the mainland, a small town in Maine, to start high school. Her older island friends, Anya, Michael and Benj warn her that the town kids will tease and mock her island ways. They tell her not to “yarn”. What they don’t prepare...
Making Children Mind without Losing Yours
| Author | Kevin Leman |
| ISBN | 0800731050 |
Raising children these days can be daunting. But if anyone understands why children behave the way they do, it's Dr. Kevin Leman. Equipping parents with seven principles of Reality Discipline--a loving no-nonsense parenting approach that really works--this internationally known psychologist,...
