Absolute Zero: Being the Second Part of the Bagthorpe Saga
10 best books like Absolute Zero: Being the Second Part of the Bagthorpe Saga (Helen Cresswell): A Billion for Boris, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography, The Ogre Downstairs, Son of Interflux, Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze, Minnow on the Say, Keep a Lid on It, Pandora!, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, 5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel, The Exiles at Home
Things are back to normal for Annabel Andrews since that freaky Friday when she switched bodies with her mother. She is still in love with Boris, her cute friend from upstairs, and she is still annoyed by her pesky little brother, Ape Face. But normal doesn't last long in the Andrews household!
When...
| Author | Jean Rhys |
| ISBN | 0140184058 |
There is something sadly fitting about Smile Please ’s being an unfinished autobiography. According to her publisher Diana Athill in the volume's foreword, Rhys was reluctant to revisit in an autobiography painful aspects of her past that she had already treated in her novels. At the same...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0007154690 |
Diana Wynne Jones at her finest – family feuds and chaos, magic with hilarious results and some of the most original ideas ever to appear between the covers of a book.
Casper, Johnny and Gwinny get a big shock when their mother marries the Ogre. The Ogre is large and stern and not at all interested...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0590411861 |
YA. I think -- I'm pretty sure -- that this is just as awesome as I remembered it. More, even, because this time through I could see a lot of parallels to Heller's Catch-22, which made me love it even more. It's got Korman's trademark geeks (ambitious, lovable, misdirected) engaging in shenanigans (large-scale,...
Four reasons to cheer!
Meet the Melendys! Mona, the eldest, is thirteen. She has decided to become an actress and can recite poetry at the drop of a hat. Rush is twelve and a bit mischievous. Miranda is ten and a half. She loves dancing and painting pictures. Oliver is the youngest. At six, he is...
| Author | Philippa Pearce |
| ISBN | 0140310223 |
David can't believe his luck when a worn wooden canoe mysteriously appears on the banks of the River Say behind his house. With summer stretching endlessly before him, it seems too good to be true.Soon there is another boy--Adam, the Minnow's rightful owner. Adam wants his boat back...but something...
| Author | Kate McMullan |
| ISBN | 0786816694 |
This is the "true story" of Pandora and her infamous box (or jar, as the case may be), narrated by Hades, Lord of the Underworld. Be prepared to chuckle, giggle, and even belly laugh.
Here are some editing oversights I found in the Kindle text of Keep A Lid On It, Pandora!:
Page 23, Oh, no...
| Author | Norman Hunter |
| ISBN | 0140367764 |
Still one of the immortals of children's literature - Professor Branestawm's continues to amuse generations of young readers.
The wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm. He's madly sane and cleverly dotty. Professor Branestawm is the most absent-minded...
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0374423296 |
5 Novels contains five classic novels by Daniel Pinkwater, who has been quietly, subversively producing books for the most intelligent and creative children and young people in America for more than twenty-five years. (Adults may know him as a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, essayist,...
When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, she is unprepared for the difficulties involved in finding GBP10 a month. So she enlists the help of her sisters - Phoebe, Naomi and Rachel - who are only too eager to dream up hare-brained fund-raising schemes. Undisciplined baby-sitters, unhygienic...
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 0689713274 |
Derek and his friends, living outside of London during World War II, find plenty of opportunities to explore bomb craters, collect shrapnel, and identify the fighter planes that fly overhead. When a bomb hits close to school, causing classes to be canceled, the boys are overjoyed: They can spend the...
It isn't always easy raising a family without much money, but the O'Sullivans prove that it is not only possible, but that there is no price tag on fun and adventure. Father, Mother, Michael, Brigid and twins Francie and Liam share a warm and mirthful existence in their cottage at Bantry Bay the fullness...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0142407860 |
Vesper and her friends are sailing off to the newly discovered archeological site of Troy. But danger is close behind—and the party is tricked and imprisoned in a fabulous palace called Xanadu. Xanadu’s master is none other than Vesper’s archenemy, Dr. Helvitius, who has a diabolical scheme...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0152053093 |
The wizard has big summer plans: to garden, to fish, and to nap. The only thing better would be if he had someone nice to share the days with. But the only people who show up want him to rescue yet another princess, lift the usual vile curse, confront a fearsome ghost, deal with a pack of magical hooligans,...
| Author | Anthony Buckeridge |
| ISBN | 0755113683 |
When Jennings arrives at Linbury Court Preparatory School as a new boy, he soon discovers how much he has to learn, especially when the other boys seem to be talking in a different language! Spivish ozard! But it is not long before Jennings becomes a celebrity, following an intrepid escape from the school...
| Author | William Steig |
| ISBN | 0374469903 |
It's easy to be injured by this world, even by those closest to oneself, and to feel the powerful pull to respond by withdrawing from the source of that pain. Spinky encounters exactly this in Spinky Sulks.
Spinky really is an especially sensitive boy who feels that he can't abide the slights...
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0698119487 |
Tomie is overjoyed because his baby sister, Maureen, is finally strong enough to come home from the hospital. Over the next months, he is in a dance recital and he gets to go to the World's Fair. Soon, the school year is at an end. Summer is full of fun things to do, like going to the beach and celebrating the...
| Author | Marilyn Sadler |
| ISBN | 0001714384 |
P.J. Funnybunny sometimes behaved badly. But THE VERY BAD BUNNY was his cousin Blinky, whose exploits will amuse all young children. Fans of P.J. will also like his first book, IT'S NOT EASY BEING A BUNNY. 'I can read it all by myself' is the Beginner Books motto, and behind it is an understanding of how...
| Author | Marie Corelli |
| ISBN | 1551114194 |
Though disparaged by literary critics of her day, Marie Corelli was one of the most popular novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Wormwood (1890) is a lurid tale of unrequited love, betrayal, vengeance, murder, suicide, and addiction. The novel recounts the degeneration of Gaston...
| Author | E.L. Konigsburg |
| ISBN | 0689826796 |
THE CAMEL-KEEPER'S SON Maxmilian (also known as Bo) Stubbs's mother has just married a very rich man. Bo is looking forward to moving into his stepfather's big house and attending the snooty Fortnum School in the fall. Everything about Bo's new life is going to be first class, just like his new navy blazer...
| Author | Maria Isabel Barreno |
«Reescrevendo, pois, as conhecidas cartas seiscentistas da freira portuguesa, Novas Cartas Portuguesas afirma-se como um libelo contra a ideologia vigente no período pré-25 de Abril (denunciando a guerra colonial, o sistema judicial, a emigração, a violência, a situação das mulheres),...
| Author | Cicely Mary Barker |
| ISBN | 0723248338 |
For the first time in over 10 years all eight Original Flower Fairies Books[trademark] are being re-designed. Inspiration has been drawn from the original publishers' connections with The Glasgow School of Art to produce an exquisite new cover. With fresh new title pages and endpapers, reset text...
