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10 best books like All's Fairy in Love and War (Rachel Roberts): After the Moment, Tiger Moon, The Skylarks’ War, Moon Rising, Switch, Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850, Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, The Possibilities of Sainthood, A Stranger at Green Knowe, Time of the Witches

After the Moment
AuthorGarret Weyr, also Freymann-Weyr
A new novel by the Printz Honor author Garret Freymann-Weyr, about a boy who discovers what happens when love fails us - or we fail love.

Maia Morland is pretty, only not pretty-pretty. She's smart. She's brave. She's also a self-proclaimed train wreck. Leigh Hunter is smart, popular, and extremely...
Tiger Moon
AuthorAntonia Michaelis
Fate brings together a talking tiger, a doomed princess, and a rascally thief in a thrilling, old-fashioned tale from an exciting, internationally acclaimed new talent.

How does a story of India begin?

Does it begin with the three rivers—the Ganges, the Yamuna, the unseen Sarasvati...
The Skylarks’ War
AuthorHilary McKay
ISBN1509894942
Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life resumes each September - boarding school for Peter and Rupert, and a boring life for Clarry at home with her absent father,...
Moon Rising
AuthorTui T. Sutherland
ISBN0545685346
The New York Times-bestselling series soars to even greater heights with a new prophecy and five new dragonets ready to claim their destiny!

Peace has come to Pyrrhia . . . for now.

The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting...
Switch
AuthorCarol Snow
ISBN0061452084
Claire Martin has some serious body issues.

Not much happens in Claire's sleepy beach town, but that's okay. All she wants is to hang out with her best friend, make the high school swim team, and convince Nate, the guy of her dreams, to stop calling her "Dude." And, oh--she'd really, really like...
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
AuthorSusan Campbell Bartoletti
ISBN0618548831
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people.

Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are known today as the Great Irish...
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
AuthorCatherine Thimmesh
ISBN0618507574
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
The Possibilities of Sainthood
AuthorDonna Freitas
ISBN0374360871
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen...

Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still...
A Stranger at Green Knowe
AuthorLucy M. Boston
ISBN0152025898
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
Time of the Witches
AuthorAnna Myers
ISBN0802798209
Orphaned at the age of four, Drucilla finally has a place she can call home with her new family, the Putnams, of Salem Village. But when a new reverend and his family move into town with their servant Tituba, life takes a strange and dangerous turn as accusations of witchcraft swirl. Dru is overwhelmed...
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
AuthorJerry Stanley
ISBN0517880946
I was surprised at how this book affected me. I thought it would just be a nice, quick lesson in the Dust Bowl migration. It turned out to be a lesson in humanity.

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp is very short. The first half gives the historic background and...
Crazy Beautiful
AuthorLauren Baratz-Logsted
ISBN0547223072
In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks because he wouldn’t outgrow them so quickly. He chose hooks so that everyone would know he was different, so he would scare even himself.

Then he meets Aurora....
Rapacia: The Second Circle of Heck
AuthorDale E. Basye
In the second installment of the popular series, Heck, Dale E. Basye takes Milton and Marlo Fauster on a journey that is as clever, as laugh-out-loud funny, and as satisfying as the first.

Welcome to Rapacia, where the greedy kids go . . .

When Milton escapes from Heck in a soul balloon...
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN1416903151
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent and overexcited. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing,...
The Dark Flight Down
AuthorMarcus Sedgwick
In the morning you should think
You might not last unto the night
In the evening you should think
You might not last unto the morn


Boy has survived the terrors of life with the magician Valerian, dark magic, and deadly chases, but he is still on the run. Now, as the City lies frozen,...
Eruption
AuthorRoland Smith
ISBN0545081742
The explosive conclusion to Roland Smith's fast-paced action series!

The adventures aren't over yet for Chase Masters and his dad. In this third installment, Chase heads south of the border with his friend Nicole Rossi to track down the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants...
Tinder
AuthorSally Gardner
ISBN1780621493
A young soldier, a captive princess, witches, wolves and Death walk hand in hand in COSTA AWARD winner Sally Gardner's exquisitely written new novel inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, THE TINDERBOX, illustrated by David Roberts.

Otto Hundebiss is tired of war, but when he...
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