Butterfly
10 best books like Butterfly (Sonya Hartnett): The Explosionist, The Truth About Verity Sparks, The Silent Miaow: A Manual for Kittens, Strays, and Homeless Cats, The Book of Skulls, The Red Wind, The Clearing, Minder, The Between, Faith, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
| Author | Jenny Davidson |
| ISBN | 0061239755 |
The Explosionist (formerly known as Dynamite No. 1) is the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in an alternate version of 1930s Edinburgh. There, the legacy of Napoleon's victory a century earlier at Waterloo is a standoff between a totalitarian Federation of European States and a group of independent...
The Truth About Verity Sparks
| Author | Susan Green |
| ISBN | 1921720271 |
Verity Sparks is a thirteen-year-old orphan working as a milliner in Victorian London. But Verity is no ordinary girl – she has an almost perfect memory and possesses the talent of Teleagtivism. She can easily find things that are lost! When Verity is wrongly accused of theft and dismissed from her...
| Author | Paul Gallico |
| ISBN | 0517556839 |
For cat lovers, the title of this book speaks for itself. The Silent Miaow and the chapter devoted to it spell out all that is most endearing in our feline companions.
Put forth as a secret manuscript typed by a cat and transposed for publication by Paul Gallico, The Silent Miaow is subtitled,...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0345471385 |
Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, college roommates, go on a spring break trip to Arizona: Eli, the scholar, who found and translated the book; Timothy, scion of an American dynasty, born and bred to lead; Ned, poet and cynic; and Oliver, the...
| Author | Isobelle Carmody |
| ISBN | 0670074039 |
This was slow-starting - I've had it on my currently reading shelf for the last 6 months! But I finally finished it today, and at the end I had a lump in my throat. I had no idea it would be so profound. It seemed so mild and a little bland, perhaps because I find it hard to relate to stories about talking animals......
| Author | Heather Davis |
| ISBN | 0547263678 |
In this bittersweet romance, two teens living decades apart form a bond that will change their lives forever.
Amy is drawn to the misty, mysterious clearing behind her Aunt Mae’s place because it looks like the perfect place to hide from life. A place to block out the pain of her last relationship,...
| Author | Kate Kaynak |
| ISBN | 1937053067 |
Sixteen-year-old Maddie Dunn is special, but she needs to figure out how to use her new abilities before somebody else gets hurt. Ganzfield is a secret training facility full of people like her, but it's not exactly a nurturing place. Every social interaction carries the threat of mind-control. A stray...
High school senior Lydia Hawthorne is less than grateful when Oberon has her snatched from the Mortal world and she finds out she's actually Fae. And not just any Fae, but a trueborn with enough inherent magic to tip the balance between Oberon and Titania's warring Bright and Shadow courts.
But...
| Author | Jennifer Haigh |
| ISBN | 0060755806 |
When Sheila McGann sets out to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in suburban Boston, her quest will force her to confront cataclysmic truths about her fractured Irish-American family, her beliefs, and, ultimately, herself. Award-winning author Jennifer Haigh follows...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521546184 |
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
Persimmon Polidori is a fine young lady, but within her is a rebel. She must follow her heart's desire, even if it means her family will reject her for the choices she makes. These choices bring her adventure and a world she never knew existed - they also bring her loneliness...
Along the way, Persimmon...
| Author | Leander Watts |
| ISBN | 0618594434 |
Relly’s band is called Scorpio Bone. Screaming guitars, crusher drums, and a singer who looks like a golden god. Along comes a girl named Zee, with a bass guitar, a notebook full of strange lyrics, and exactly the right attitude.
At the first practice, it all comes together. And Relly’s...
