Breath
10 best books like Breath (Donna Jo Napoli): Spirited, Straw Into Gold, The Humming of Numbers, An Earthly Knight, Bending the Boyne: A Novel of Ancient Ireland, Once Upon a Toad, Letters from Rapunzel, Out of the Wild, The Heavenward Path, A Coalition of Lions
| Author | Nancy Holder |
| ISBN | 0689870639 |
In May 1756 war is formally declared between the British and the French. During this highly dangerous time, Isabella Sevens is travelling with her father to the British stronghold Fort William Henry.
In the forest, Wusamequin, the young and handsome medicine man, looks to avenge the death of his...
| Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0618056017 |
What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold? By order of the king, two boys, Tousle and Innes, must find the answer to this puzzling riddle within seven days or be killed. A former nursemaid to the queen’s child tells the boys that the banished queen may have the answer they seek. Danger presents itself...
| Author | Joni Sensel |
| ISBN | 0805083278 |
Aidan is poised to take his monastic vows—until a girl enters the abbey, one who hums of the number eleven. Aidan has the ability to hear the humming of numbers, a buzzing energy given off by living things. He is captivated and tormented by the mysterious girl, Lana, who has some unusual abilities...
| Author | Janet McNaughton |
| ISBN | 0060089946 |
A cloud has descended over the household of Lady Jeanette Avenel.
The year is 1162. Sixteen-year-old Jenny has always enjoyed her freedom as second daughter of a Norman nobleman in Teviotdale, Scotland. But when Jenny's sister, Isabel, disgraces the family by running away with a dangerous...
Bending the Boyne: A Novel of Ancient Ireland
| Author | J.S. Dunn |
| ISBN | 0983155410 |
2200 BCE: Marauders invade ancient Eire seeking copper and gold. The astronomer Boann and the enigmatic Cian must use all their wits and courage to save their people, the peaceful starwatchers, from the invaders' long bronze knives and scavenging ways. Tensions between new and old cultures and between...
| Author | Heather Vogel Frederick |
A girl gets into a mouthful of trouble in this modern fractured fairy tale, from the author of The Mother-Daughter Book Club.
Once upon a time, Cat Starr lived with her astronaut mom in Houston. But when her mother gets sent on a long-term mission, Cat has to move to a far away land—her dad’s...
| Author | Sara Lewis Holmes |
| ISBN | 0060780738 |
Once upon a time, there was a girl. Let's call her Rapunzel. A modern-day version. Abandoned. Alone. Waiting for her hair to grow and dreaming of a way to escape from her tower. She was trapped, you see. Not in the conventional fairy-tale way--this was the dreaded after-school Homework Club. A desolate...
| Author | Sarah Beth Durst |
| ISBN | 1595141596 |
Ever since twelve-year-old Julie Marchen helped defeat the fairy-tale world of the Wild, life's been about as normal as can be—for a girl whose brother is Puss-in-Boots and whose mom is Rapunzel.
After nearly taking over her hometown, the Wild is safely back where it belongs: right under...
Mitsuko is being haunted by ghosts and bad luck. An angry spirit commands her to keep a forgotten promise and assigns her a series of impossible tasks. She turns to the mischievous shape-shifter Goranu for help. Together they journey through a landscape of Japanese myths and legends made real. This...
| Author | Elizabeth E. Wein |
| ISBN | 0142401293 |
After the death of virtually all of her family in the battle of Camlan, Goewin, Princess of Britain, daughter of the High King Artos, makes a desperate journey to African Aksum, to meet with Constantine, the British ambassador and her fiance. But Aksum is undergoing political turmoil, and Goewin's...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0689878370 |
Just as fairy-tale magic can transform a loved one into a swan, the contributors to this book have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends into stories that are completely original, yet still tantalizingly familiar.The stories include a Rapunzel whose most confining prison is her loneliness;...
Maura and Patrick have escaped the desperate poverty and danger of leaving home in Ireland to face even greater peril as they continue their daring voyage to the New World with their friend Laurence Kirkle. Aboard ship, they are crowded into the stench-filled pit of steerage, where they come face to...
| Author | Janet Tashjian |
| ISBN | 0590960474 |
mom read this one out loud. Skipped some words and a whole segment about Ouija boards. Mom remembers this being made into a Disney Original Movie and wanted to read it. Our brother has special needs so mom tries to find books about being a sibling to someone that is different from everyone else. Over all...
| Author | Eleanor Updale |
| ISBN | 0439813735 |
A dark tale of vengeance and madness takes Montmorency on his next crusade....
As Queen Victoria lies dying, Montmorency and his friends are already in mourning, and determined to track down the killers who have wrecked their lives. It's personal obsession, but Montmorency has public duties...
| Author | Jane Kurtz |
| ISBN | 0152010742 |
“The Storytellers Beads” by Jane Kurtz (who grew up in a remote village in southwest corner of Ethiopia) is about the main characters, Sahay and Rahel that are both from Ethiopia. Rahel is an Ethiopian Jew who is also blind. Sahay is an Orthodox Christian. The story follows their journey during the...
| Author | Hilari Bell |
| ISBN | 0786805617 |
Read for Popsugar's 2015 Reading Challenge: a book from an author you love that you haven't read yet.
I can clearly see the beginning of Hilari Bell's style in this, her first published novel. The naturalistic magic in a sci-fi setting is very Trickster's Girl/Traitor's Son. The story was well...
| Author | Heather Tomlinson |
| ISBN | 0312602758 |
Once upon a time, three children and a little river dragon were the best of friends—until a promise was broken. Now they are almost grown up and barely speaking to one another. With her country in turmoil, Aurelie is sent on a peacekeeping mission. But how can she prevent a war when she can't even make...
| Author | Gillian Cross |
| ISBN | 0140348263 |
He came in the early morning, at about half past two. His feet padded along the balcony, slinking silently past the closed doors of the other flats. No one glimpsed his shadow flickering across the curtain or noticed the uneven rhythm of his steps.
But he woke Cassy.
And in the morning, Cassy...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0142500003 |
A riotousy funny and deeply personal story of wonder, discovery and friendship, full of eccentric characters and fantastical adventures, by one of America's best-loved authors. When David falls ill his tough old Aunt Annie offers to tutor him, and he soon grows fond of The Gawgon, as he nicknames her...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0765350416 |
A rock 'n' roll band to die for . . .
When fourteen-year-old Callie McCallan scores a backstage pass to interview the lead singer of the famous band Brass Rat, she's thrilled. Peter Gringras is so cool. When he plays his flute, it's as if he has some kind of hypnotic power. But there is something...
| Author | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
Gatty is a field girl on a manor. She has never seen busy London or the bright Channel, the snowy Alps of France or the boats in the Venetian sea. She has not sung in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem or prayed at the manger in Bethlehem -- or been kidnapped, or abandoned, or kissed, or heartbroken. But all these...
