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10 best books like Black Hearts in Battersea (Joan Aiken): The Diamond in the Window, The Land of Green Ginger, The Owl Service, Black Maria, Treasure of Green Knowe, A Traveller in Time, The Story of the Amulet, Return to Gone-Away, Seven-Day Magic, She Was Nice To Mice: The Other Side of Elizabeth I's Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians

The Diamond in the Window
AuthorJane Langton
ISBN0064400425
A very unusual house...Eddy and Eleanor Hall have always known that their family was a bit out of the ordinary. After all, they live in one of the most remarkable houses in all of Concord. But they never guessed just how extraordinary their house really is, or what tremendous secrets about their family's...
The Land of Green Ginger
AuthorNoel Langley
This beloved classic is a funny, clever, and original novel that opens with Aladdin, now Emperor of China, trying to decide what to name his new son, a child who won't stop talking and is already far too articulate for his own good. The Genie of the Lamp announces that Abu Ali should be the child's name and...
The Owl Service
AuthorAlan Garner
ISBN0152056181
Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls-owls that disappear when no one...
Black Maria
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0006755283
A magical classic novel from the Godmother of British fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones.



On the surface, Great Aunt Maria seems like a harmless old lady.


But when Mig and her family go to visit, they soon learn that Aunt Maria rules Cranbury-on-Sea with a rod of sweetness that’s...
Treasure of Green Knowe
AuthorLucy M. Boston
ISBN0152026010
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...
A Traveller in Time
AuthorAlison Uttley
ISBN0140309314
*** 4 ***

I love the way this author tells a children's story! It has the feel of a fairy tale, but using time travel as a means to connect a girl living in the 1930's Chelsea, England with the 16th century Tudor period. The book itself was published in 1939 and the author was one of J. R. R. Tolkien's...
The Story of the Amulet
AuthorE. Nesbit
ISBN0140367527
At the end of Five Children and It the five children promised not to ask the Psammead for another wish as long as they lived, but expressed a half wish to see it again some time. They find 'it' again in a pet shop in Camden Town, and their magic adventures start over again. 'It' leads them to a magic amulet - half...
Return to Gone-Away
AuthorElizabeth Enright
ISBN0152022635
A wish come true. That's what Portia thinks when her parents buy Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along the swampy edge of Gone-Away Lake. A new house is always full of surprises, but Porcia is completely unprepared for the extraordinary things that happen when her family moves into a new...
Seven-Day Magic
AuthorEdward Eager
ISBN0152020799
Of all the Edward Eager books, this is probably the one I know least well, the one I don't think I first sat down and read until I was an adult - which means, unfortunately, that it missed out on that golden period where I devoured books as a child, reread them ad nauseam, and now carry them forever with me.

Note:...
She Was Nice To Mice: The Other Side of Elizabeth I's Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians
AuthorAlexandra Elizabeth Sheedy
ISBN0070565155
Written by the actress Ally Sheedy (well, Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy) when she only twelve years old. It's been on my shelf for a zillion years, and I finally cracked it open.

It tells the story of a mouse who resides in the court of Elizabeth I and keeps a diary of her observations. There is a framing...
Mistress Masham's Repose
AuthorT.H. White
ISBN1590171039
"She saw: first, a square opening, about eight inches wide, in the lowest step...finally she saw that there was a walnut shell, or half one, outside the nearest door...she went to look at the shell—but looked with the greatest astonishment. There was a baby in it."

So ten-year-old Maria,...
Wormwood Mire
AuthorJudith Rossell
When Stella Montgomery returned to the Hotel Majestic cold and wet but exhilarated by adventure, the Aunts were furious.

Now they are sending Stella away to the old family home at Wormwood Mire, where she must live with two strange cousins and their governess.

But within the overgrown...
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
AuthorPenelope Lively
ISBN1405225424
Annual re-read. First encountered at the age of ten, in primary school (in fact I still have Mrs. Halsall's own copy, sorry, Miss) and loved since. Lively's enduring ghost story tells of James Harrison being haunted by a bad-tempered C17th poltergeist whose distaste of the modern world manifests itself...
The Obsidian Dagger: Being the Further Extraordinary Adventures of Horatio Lyle
AuthorCatherine Webb
ISBN1904233694
There seems to be some odd things going on in the city of London lately. Take the murders, for instance; quite peculiar. And those missing statues. What's going on there? And shouldn't St. Paul’s Church have a roof? Odd. Horatio Lyle, of course, is no stranger to . . . well, strangeness. In fact,...
The Lantern Bearers
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0192755064
Rosemary Sutcliff's books so often bring a strange, tearful, lovely lump to my throat, and a strange, gut-wrenching mist to my eyes that tugs at my heart strings so beautifully. How does she do it, I wonder?

'I sometimes think that we stand at sunset,' Eugenus said after a pause. 'It may be that...
Movie Shoes
AuthorNoel Streatfeild
ISBN0440458153
Life is tough for the Winter family in London, with little money and Dad out of work. Luckily Aunt Cora comes to the rescue with an invitation to live in California. From that moment on, talented Rachel and Tim dream of stardom in America. The family couldn't be more surprised when a movie producer picks...
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